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Posted by tracymar55 on 11/02/06 22:34
Gérard Talbot wrote:
> tracymar55 wrote :
> > I've been handcoding html for 12 years and have over 1500 pages on my
> > websites,
> Yes...
>
> I have checked several websites you did and none of them had a single
> webpage without markup errors. None. Zero. In fact, none of them had a
> single valid doctype declaration, most of them had dozens and dozens of
> <font> everywhere, hundreds of , etc
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You are absolutely right. My pages are a mess. That's my point. The
ones I hand coded for years were just about perfect, but since I write
and put up at least 500 pages of my own a year, and several thousand
photos, in addition to working more than fulltime, I try to write,
design, optimize all photography for and do the html for each page in
about an hour a page......
For many years I painstakingly handcoded each page but for the past few
years when I want to put up 200 new photos and several articles I wrote
in a few hours, I just run it all through WYSIWYG editor. Plus I make
quick changes to my old pages through a variety of editors (I keep
trying one, hating it, and trying another). The editors have been
terrible and have destroyed the code on all the pages I so carefully
did years ago.
THAT is why I am asking for suggestions about editors with the cleanest
code. For years, I was writing clean code (really I was! I even teach
people how to write clean html!). But I stay away from the newest
developments in html, since some of my audience is in third world
countries or using community college computers with browsers like
Netscape 4!) and I absolutely don't want to use an editor that will
triple the length of my code with all sorts of style sheet
gobbledygood. (I had a cleanly coded page of about 6 paragraphs and
doing some quick NVU editing on it increased the file size of the from
3kb to 30kb!)
Also I often write several articles a month for all the continuing ed
classes I teach, and do photoshoots with hundreds of skating photos,
and usually do all the writing and photo work for and put up 5 or more
new pages or so in one evening's time. Plus once a year I set aside a
few evenings to edit, link check and change several hundred pages or
so.
It's easy to create a template NOW, but I have subsites on more than a
dozen topics since 1996 I made all of them quite different in the past
- so that my website for US Nationals figure skating competition photos
for one year for example is done with one layout in one color
combination, and my web site for my class on Homer's Odyssey and class
materials is done another way..... And several times a year I just
quickly do a new photo site and several hundred photos using
Photoshop's web gallery - which differ with each version of photoshop.
If I could go back to 1996 and start again, I would certainly NOT
create five dozen different layouts.....but now I'm stuck with the huge
variety of pages from the past.....which I need to edit.
I know. What I'm trying to do is impossible......I've sacrifiiced
decent code to time issues, but I haven't even bothered to promote my
two websites and I've had 14 million hits and am #1 in Google for
figure skating and ice skating photos and many of my greek mythology
articles are in the top 5 on Google. (And believe it or not I've
refused to have any advertising on my site whatsoever until 2 weeks ago
when I started putting up Google Adsense...but it's taking forever to
add it to 1500 pages all with different colors and layouts...).
My figure skating pages (about 500 of them) get about a million hits
during the winter skating season and I'm trying to redo them all in a
few days since the traffic is already starting to increase.
Anyway I will now read the rest of this thread and thank you all for
responding <-:
Tracy
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