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Posted by dorayme on 11/02/06 02:46
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<1162431878.456228.127250@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"tracymar55" <tracymar55@netscape.net> wrote:
> I've been handcoding html for 12 years and have over 1500 pages on my
> websites, but in the past year ran my pages through a variety of
> editors in order to some quick touchups and now my code is disastrous.
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> I am DESPERATE now to find for under $100 a decent WYSIWYG editor that
> is quick to learn, is great for hand coding AND will also allow me to
> do some quick instant html creation and will not destroy the work I've
> already done.
>
Just in case, but pardon me anyway, you should be working on
duplicates when doing such things, then it is no big deal when it
all goes awry.
Don't feel so desperate! Keep some of your favourite templates on
hand and use a good text editor. But if you must use some
wsyswig, just to get some of the basics up and running, then you
must! Good luck learning something easier than Dreamweaver.
But it is not hard to make your own little gismos with Search and
Replace functions. For example, you want a list. You select the
text that has one item on each line and you apply a previously
saved "Find & Replace" pattern, for example, in BBEdit (a Mac
editor) I keep Replace ^ with <li> and it replaces the beginning
of the line with <li>, similar for the end. There is very little
you cannot do with this sort of thing.
Take a set of paragraphs in a text: there is a full stop and a
line break or two and a capital letter starting a line for the
next para. This can be used to make a pattern and insert </p>
after the stop and <p> before the capital letter.
Just makes life a bit easier. Truth is that this is not what
takes most of the time in website making! It is the design of the
layout, things which are particularly poorly done by WSIWGS in
general.
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dorayme
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