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From: Davoud on 17 Feb 2010 11:36
Jerry Friedman:

> I hope this is the right place for this question. I'm making a Web
> site in the space my ISP provides. The user interface is "edit your
> html files on your computer and upload them with FTP". So I'm running
> into something I've run into before: if I save a file with the .html
> extension, and I try to edit it in NeoOffice or TextEdit, I get a
> preview, not the source. So I've been working on the source files
> as .txt, and each time I'm ready to try a new version, I copy it,
> rename the copy to .html, and upload it. Is there a better method?

Yes. It's called Dreamweaver. Writing html by hand is walking 500
miles. Using a wysiwyg editor like Dreamweaver is driving 500 miles. No
criticism of people who _want_ to spend two weeks getting someplace,
but the automobile is a handy thing when you need to be there today.

Davoud

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From: Steven Fisher on 17 Feb 2010 12:05
In article <170220101136495132%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net>
wrote:

> Yes. It's called Dreamweaver. Writing html by hand is walking 500

Since Jerry wants to edit the source and was asking for an easier way to
do so than renaming files, this isn't really an answer.


Steve
From: Wayne C. Morris on 17 Feb 2010 12:06
In article <f34b6cfa-b83c-4f68-b506-777531848d90(a)k41g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> I hope this is the right place for this question. I'm making a Web
> site in the space my ISP provides. The user interface is "edit your
> html files on your computer and upload them with FTP". So I'm running
> into something I've run into before: if I save a file with the .html
> extension, and I try to edit it in NeoOffice or TextEdit, I get a
> preview, not the source.

TextEdit -> Preferences -> Open and Save -> "When opening a file", turn on the
"Ignore rich text commands in HTML files" option. TextEdit will now show the
HTML source instead of a preview when you open a file.

But for editing HTML files, I prefer to use OmniWeb and Taco HTML Edit. Both
have syntax coloring and syntax checking, and can reformat the line breaks &
indents to make it easier to see the structure of your HTML code. They both
support regular expressions in Find & Replace.

OmniWeb is primarily a web browser, but its "View in Source Editor" command lets
you edit the HTML code too and redislay/preview the results. It even lets you
edit the HTML code of web sites you visit, which I find useful for making a page
more readable or printer-friendly. (Of course you can't actually change someone
else's web site, you only edit a local copy). OmniWeb is free.

<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/>

Taco HTML Edit is an HTML & PHP editor. You can open individual files, or work
on an entire folder of HTML and PHP files in a tabbed window and do a search &
replace on multiple files, so it's great for websites with more than one page.
It costs $25 and has a 30-day free trial.

<http://tacosw.com/>
From: dorayme on 17 Feb 2010 18:00
In article <170220101136495132%star(a)sky.net>,
Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote:

> Is there a better method?
>
> Yes. It's called Dreamweaver. Writing html by hand is walking 500
> miles. Using a wysiwyg editor like Dreamweaver is driving 500 miles. No
> criticism of people who _want_ to spend two weeks getting someplace,
> but the automobile is a handy thing when you need to be there today.

It is not like this for everyone. For some people, they walk a
short distance quickly and get what they want to get without
laying a trail of garbage for 500 miles that then they spend
pesky hours having to clean up when there are all manner of
complaints.

--
dorayme
From: TaliesinSoft on 17 Feb 2010 18:37
On 2010-02-17 17:00:17 -0600, dorayme said:

> In article <170220101136495132%star(a)sky.net>,
> Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there a better method?
>>
>> Yes. It's called Dreamweaver. Writing html by hand is walking 500
>> miles. Using a wysiwyg editor like Dreamweaver is driving 500 miles. No
>> criticism of people who _want_ to spend two weeks getting someplace,
>> but the automobile is a handy thing when you need to be there today.
>
> It is not like this for everyone. For some people, they walk a
> short distance quickly and get what they want to get without
> laying a trail of garbage for 500 miles that then they spend
> pesky hours having to clean up when there are all manner of
> complaints.

I can't disagree that one who is versed in HTML can produce an elegant
web page. On the other hand, for those that are not so versed, I
strongly recommend Freeway (which comes in both Pro and Express
versions <www.softpress.com>) which allows one to create a website
using a WSYWIG interface and which requires absolutely no knowledge of
HTML and which produces fully W3C compliant code!

--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

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