I do not code and use a PC with Vista.
I 'm an amature just maintaining my own site.
What web authoring software would you recomend that I use.
(Still using Page Mill!!)
Thanks for your site and letting me borrow scripts!!
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Amature Web Authoring Software Suggestions
I do not code and use a PC with Vista.
I 'm an amature just maintaining my own site.
What web authoring software would you recomend that I use.
(Still using Page Mill!!)
Thanks for your site and letting me borrow scripts!!
Elite Coders
That would all depend on what you want to do with the software. What degree of authoring/editing are you going to be doing? What are your goals? What's your comfort level with HTML/CSS?
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I do not write code at all. I can copy and paste from this site and maybe tweak it slightly.
An authoring program for me would not require me to enter code, but possibly do so in the future.
The program should be compatable with the scripts you folks write.
Elite Coders
I guess something like Dreamweaver might be a tool to look into. That might be a bit overkill for you, though. Perhaps the "Fisher-Price version of Dreamweaver" (as I call it), Adobe Contribute might be good as well.
If you're mainly just adding/removing content (as opposed to adding functionality), you might want to consider a content management system (CMS). That'll save you a lot of headache (not to mention time and money).
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I will examaine Dreamweaver and Contribute, thank you.
After visiting this site and talking with you I get excited about code.
What are the first steps to being able to understand and maybe writing code.
A book? Software?
Global Moderator
HTML and other programming languages really are languages. The difference, though, is that they are actually much easier. First, they have a very rigid set of rules, so they're difficult to write if you don't know those-- BUT, you can still read the code easily.
The first step to using code is understanding code. Take a look at tutorials, code for real websites, example scripts, or whatever you want. If you can find anything with comments (a little note about what a line of code does, actually embedded in the code) that will really help.
Soon after that, you'll be very proficient at understanding code.
Next is practice and trial and error, just knowing what you know about how stuff is structured, looking up (and eventually memorizing) all of the "words" (commands, etc.), and you'll find it really isn't that hard to get into at all.
And first rule as with any language-- you need to be exposed to it and start using it. Tutorials can get you somewhere, but the real goal should be to start writing code. Even if it's bad, you'll learn something.
By the way, a nice feature of WYSIWYG (preview based) editors is that you can view the code they write. So if you add something to your page you can also see how the html changes with it. (Be warned-- the code they write is sometimes really bad, but it can be an easy interactive way for your first experience with the code.)
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I can feel my eyeballs falling out already!!
Thanks for the tips all.
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One more thing is there a place to see the code "rules" as you call them.
A book?
A code dictionary?
Global Moderator
Well, there are two big categories: the syntax (structure, format), and the 'words'.
You can look up commands easily, just with a google search, or find a website you like.
www.w3schools.com is popular for html.
The syntax is usually quite easy.
For example, here's a general tag in html:
<name attribute="value" anotherattr="anotherval">Content Text</name>
That's a tag for a "name" element on a page, with the two values, which has within it "Content Text".
You can usually embed one element in another, and almost all elements work similarly.
See, now that you know that, you know about 90% of how html is actually structured. That's the syntax, and, really, that's about how it'll look 90% of the time. (The rest of the variations aren't that odd, either.)
Now you just need to learn some of the "words", like the <html> tag which surrounds ALL of the rest of the code on an html page.
From there, just look at other pages as examples, look up properties and see what fits together well. You'll start to see how different elements interact, like how you place the cell of a table inside a row of a table and that inside the table itself. (<table><tr><td>...)
Anyway, you should start with a basic tutorial (google and find one you like-- there are tons out there), until you feel like doing a bit of self-guided study. And feel free to ask questions when they come up.
Daniel - Freelance Web Design | <?php?> | <html>| español | Deutsch | italiano | português | català | un peu de français | some knowledge of several other languages: I can sometimes help translate here on DD | Linguistics Forum
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