HTML Editors

[Ginger_Ale]

Don't forget <a href="URL">text here</a> for links...and, hmm, let's see: Using CSS you can pretty much make and place everything you want. www.pageresource.com <-- One of the best sites I've found for coding HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and others. Check out the HTML and CSS tutorials there. They are very very nice.

 

[MarineCorps]

I just started learning HTML and JavaScript on Tuesday at the voc school I go to. Almost done with the book(4 year old book to. Said that excite is the most poular search engine )

This is as far as I have gotten. Although I kinda screwed up with the submit button. Has an error in it. But I can't figure out what it is. When I click on the submit button it's suppose to bring up a alert window, but when I click on it IE says there is an error on the page. But I have to wait till monday to figure out what the error is since I forgot to zip the HTML files before attaching them.

BTW Editpad lite is the best for HTML.

 

[Turner]

Well, Crimson Editor has been working out pretty well for me. I'm sticking with it. Notepad too, for quick edits. I like CE's highlighting for keywords. Plus I can have multiple .html files open, instead of a bunch of notepad wiindows. I still use notepad, but mostly for quick edits.

Now I'm getting the desire to add java to my pages. Good thing I'm going to the library Saturday to get some books. Have more to add.

Haven't had this much fun since I started programming DCL back in '97.

 

[Jeratain]

I just started learning HTML and JavaScript on Tuesday at the voc school I go to.
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Now they just need to teach you how to properly crop and size a screenshot :p

 

[stormbind]

No. NOT NOTEPAD. Notepad does not support syntax highlighting or line numbers. Syntax highlighting is very important - if you accidentally forget to properly make a tag

Then type like this...

<><>
<></>
<ilayer></ilayer>
<ilayer onclick=""></ilayer>
<ilayer onclick="scriptfunction();"></ilayer>
<ilayer onclick="scriptfunction('');"></ilayer>
<ilayer onclick="scriptfunction('welcome');"></ilayer>
<ilayer onclick="scriptfunction('welcome');">Old NS4 stuff</ilayer>

Do you see the pattern? You cannot make mistakes if you close tags before you fill them.

Syntax highlighting can be bad, because you become dependent on that editor's support. The editor I listed (CREdit) allows you to add new tags, but even so, that's useless if you don't know the tags first

I use CREdit for less structured languages, like PERL, where a tiny error is much harder to find. Having said that, I have used Microsoft Edit to write PERL scripts in the past, and EDIT is even less user friendly than NOTEPAD.

A good worker doesn't blaim his tools.

 

[bobgote]

Now they just need to teach you how to properly crop and size a screenshot

i'd also like to know when canadians became pizza toppings...

just out of interest, what are the most widely used server-side paging technologies at the moment?
i guess it was mostly php but has this changed to .asp or .jsp at all? (or some other one?)

 

[stormbind]

Depends on the scenario.

CGI/PERL is still the most popular inside corporations. PHP has taken a big chunk of it's market share on the web because of hype though, not any solid technical reasoning.

Apache SSI (*.shtml) is also very common. It's probably the best choice if you just want to dabble because it's easy to learn. You can do some neat stuff with it such as query snippets of data, and perform (if, else) statements, which is enough for most dynamic websites. It's a lightweight language so it has limitations but it's very fast and stable.

 

[MarineCorps]

i'd also like to know when canadians became pizza toppings...

Oops. Thats supposed to read Canadian Bacon.

@Jeratain: Nah.

 

[hbdragon88]

Then type like this...
Do you see the pattern? You cannot make mistakes if you close tags before you fill them.

Syntax highlighting can be bad, because you become dependent on that editor's support. The editor I listed (CREdit) allows you to add new tags, but even so, that's useless if you don't know the tags first

Editors also have line support; I can tell it to go to a particular line. In Notepad, that's impossible. I do manually write out the tags; I don't rely on the editor itself to insert tags for me. But I write the HTML as I go, and it's a lot more convienent to see where I've made an error.

 

[Turner]

Yeah, that's nice seeing the error. VB6.0's editor had that, it was pretty convenient.

I like Crimson Editor. The only thing it really does is highlight the HTML tags so that I know I got it right. But it doesn't auto complete or generate code. Well, if it does, I have that feature turned off. And no desire to turn it on.