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Barney McGrew
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« on: October 03, 2007, 02:38:22 PM » |
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What do the majority of web designers on here use in terms of software when creating pages, or do you do all your coding by hand. ?
I am particularly interested in xhtml pages.
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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2007, 03:46:27 PM » |
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ive always used dreamweaver but more as a glorified text editor with bells on. then of course there is notepad
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sarahA
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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 04:10:06 PM » |
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HTML Kit - can't fault it
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charlie
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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2007, 07:04:36 PM » |
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HTML kit here too
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2007, 09:04:31 PM » |
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Araneae - souped-up text editor. http://www.ornj.net |
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Barney McGrew
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2007, 09:12:31 PM » |
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As simple as they all seem to be, I think I need to stick with my WYSIWYG type editors as I have no idea how you all know what it is going to look like whilst your creating it. Good on you all  |
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 10:29:20 PM » |
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Hand coded with Notepad ++
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Mr Anderson
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« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2007, 10:41:01 PM » |
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as I have no idea how you all know what it is going to look like whilst your creating it. You presumably have a starting image even when using a WYSIWYG? Use that same starting image to guide you - you know what elements need to be on the page, mark them up, then position them with CSS. So long as you can do simple mathematics you can lay out a web page. |
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sarahA
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2007, 08:05:32 PM » |
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As simple as they all seem to be, I think I need to stick with my WYSIWYG type editors as I have no idea how you all know what it is going to look like whilst your creating it. Good on you all Not necessarily. Not that I write much markup or CSS these days (that's Mr A's job!) but when I did I would print out the layout or draw it out on paper and then draw my divs up, determine what needed to go where and work from that. However now I pretty much spend 99% of my time writing PHP and so Mr A has already done the page and I just insert my code where it needs to go  It's all part of the fun though  Code up a page, write the CSS and then open the page and see what's gone wrong! |
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samhs
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« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2007, 08:44:14 AM » |
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I could seriously quite happily survive with a copy of photoshop, a copy of illustrator, and a copy of notepad or textedit - those are the three essentials. I do use other text based editors, including dreamweaver code view - but nothing beats the simple text editing environment for arranging nice clean code without all the crap.
In terms of how you know what you're doing codewise - as Mr A says, you already know what the design is, so you've got all the info you need before you start....
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« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2007, 09:12:54 AM » |
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I simply use HTML Kit for line numbering and the control you have over code colouring. The colouring can be so handy if you've made a mistake, not escaped something etc. on a line as it can show the rest of the line in incorrect colours. Of course, if I'm on a train then I'll just use a pen and paper. It's funny as people sitting opposite try to read what you're writing and get a face full of PHP back at them |
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Barney McGrew
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« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2007, 12:13:11 AM » |
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Or use CoffeeCup's HTML Editor which has wysiwyg editing views as well as the usual text.
It looks quite easy and nice to use that Chris. However, I cant find any reference to Xhtml within it, so not sure. I have also downloaded the trial version of their FTP software as its seems nice a easy to use also. I presume they are an OK product to use. I do remember you sending me some codes at some stage which I used to download a bundle. However, I have no idea where I put them. |
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« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2007, 07:07:36 AM » |
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Or use CoffeeCup's HTML Editor which has wysiwyg editing views as well as the usual text.
It looks quite easy and nice to use that Chris. However, I cant find any reference to Xhtml within it, so not sure. I have also downloaded the trial version of their FTP software as its seems nice a easy to use also. I presume they are an OK product to use. I do remember you sending me some codes at some stage which I used to download a bundle. However, I have no idea where I put them. How do you mean 'reference to xhtml'?  |
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« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2007, 10:48:53 AM » |
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Mainly Notepad or sometimes DW in code view.
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Barney McGrew
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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2007, 02:33:19 PM » |
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Its seems I am confusing myself here by not fully understanding.
I was under the impression that I needed a specific piece of software to create pages using xml or xhtml. As many will know I am used to a WYSIWYG type of operation and wasnt sure if I needed something similar to use the xml stuff.
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Barney McGrew
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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2007, 09:37:54 PM » |
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Yes, it does have the tool to do this. I have downloaded it. Might be worth the purchase as its a lot faster than what I am currently using to be honest.
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