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HTML hand coding program that makes life easy!

dingdongbubble said:
I have a little extra questions please as I am a beginner. From what I have learned uptill now, HTML is for the contect of the page like text, forms, lists etc and CSS is for making that content look attractive and give it the looks. SO for example if you go to CSSEdit's website and have a peak at their source code, at one point, you can see the HTML for the navigation at the top that has been listed sideways under MAc Rabbit. So basicallt is it true that the listing was simple and was done under HTML but they used MAC Rabbit to make it look like it is right now (attractive and complicated)?
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You pretty much have the gist. HTML for data. CSS for presentation. I've included a screenshot (lowest quality jpeg) of the macrabbit site without css applied for your benefit.

BTW: Mac isn't an acronym.
 
I cant thank you enough for all your patient help. Its great.

So basically those Homesite keyboard shortcuts are already made and if I want to use extra ones, I have to make them myself?

Where is the screenshot?
 
I went to CSSEdit's website, looked at their source code, saved it, removed the CSS line in the head tag and saved it as an HTML. I opened the HTML file and I was VERY surprised to find the website to be so drop dead simple but with the CSS its a totally different story! Basically I can make amazing websites with basic HTML knowledge, but for them to look great, I will need to know CSS well. ITs quite fascinating how simple the HTML code is!:)
 
dingdongbubble said:
I went to CSSEdit's website, looked at their source code, saved it, removed the CSS line in the head tag and saved it as an HTML. I opened the HTML file and I was VERY surprised to find the website to be so drop dead simple but with the CSS its a totally different story! Basically I can make amazing websites with basic HTML knowledge, but for them to look great, I will need to know CSS well. ITs quite fascinating how simple the HTML code is!:)
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Yes, if you haven't already, I would recommend taking a walk through the css Zen Garden. Basically the xhtml is the same, but people have submitted their own css stylesheets, with some really fantastic examples. It really shows the power of css beautifully.
 
Thanks everyone for all our help. Can you please answer my question which I have asked in a new topic on the same forum?
 
dingdongbubble said:
I went to CSSEdit's website, looked at their source code, saved it, removed the CSS line in the head tag and saved it as an HTML. I opened the HTML file and I was VERY surprised to find the website to be so drop dead simple but with the CSS its a totally different story! Basically I can make amazing websites with basic HTML knowledge, but for them to look great, I will need to know CSS well. ITs quite fascinating how simple the HTML code is!:)
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That is an example of good design.

CSS is not that complex, I think HTML is a bit simpler to pick up. Once you work out what's going on it's not that difficult. The problems often come with cross platform / cross browser compatibility. You are making a good start by looking at the work of others — it's a good way to learn.

To make truly "amazing" website you will also eventually need some knowledge of client side and server side scripting.
 
Scripting? What exactly is scripting? Like is it a set of commands or something so that the computer follows instructions in different situations?
 
When I watch screencasts they seem to use TextMate. Ive only done simple web things so I got by using textwrangler.

I want to get into Ruby On Rails and my Uni course requires a lot of PHP next year.

So do you think the cost of ether Coda or TextMate is worth it ?

And which one :D
 
dingdongbubble said:
Scripting? What exactly is scripting? Like is it a set of commands or something so that the computer follows instructions in different situations?
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This forum uses a php script to automatically process posts, order the list of posts so the ones that have messages posted most recently appear first, handle logins, registration etc.

Almost every large site will have a content management system to handle publishing of new content and multiple authors/permissions.

Large sites, like Apple.com, may have several for E-News, Downloads etc.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
 
MacDonaldsd said:
When I watch screencasts they seem to use TextMate. Ive only done simple web things so I got by using textwrangler.

I want to get into Ruby On Rails and my Uni course requires a lot of PHP next year.

So do you think the cost of ether Coda or TextMate is worth it ?

And which one :D
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The TextMate HTML (Rails), ruby and php bundles offer much more functionality than coda does at the moment.

Coda is an app specifically for web development and has certain features (reference books, built in FTP, GUI CSS Editor) that TextMate will never have, whereas TextMate is a much more general purpose Text Editor with functionality added through bundles.

As they can both be tried for a limited time, I'd urge you to download and give them a go before making a decision.
 
I'd recommend TextMate too. I've long been an advocate of BBEdit, and I still think it's a great tool, however folk on these very forums persuaded me to check out TextMate, and they did me a huge favour.

If you live and breathe (X)HTML or similar then you can't be better looked after - TextMate's bundles and shortcuts are quite unbelievable and can only come from real people who actually use this stuff day in and day out, unlike the coders for other editors which just try to presume what we might find useful. It's a first-class app and another reason for OS X being the best web development environment out there just now IMHO.
 
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