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Posted by Nico Schuyt on 11/02/06 11:27
tracymar55 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.
> In fact, I was counting on writing and posting a four page article
> last night but mistakenly ran it through the NVU editor and as a
> result was up all night cleaning it up. The code that programs
> generates is horrendous. It actually generated an entire half page
> which had no text on it....just tags that started and immediately
> ended, cancelling each other out. And it converted my font size <font
> size="+1"> tags to: <font size+1="">.
>
> ANYWAY I tried to learn Dreamweaver but it altered my existing pages
> and the structure of my one of my sites.......and I will not go near
> it again.
>
> 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.
I use FrontPage 2002 and it *never* changed my coding. I cann't imagine
Dreameaver does (unless your setting are incorrect)
Sugestion: Use (hand coded) CSS for your presentation in an external
stylesheet (attached to your pages).
A WYSIWYG-editor like FP is ideal to apply the styles to selected text.
To clean up existing code soup you can use Detagger
http://www.jafsoft.com/detagger/ but probably it's better to start over from
scratch.
Good luck!
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Nico Schuyt
http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/
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