Re: choosing an editor

mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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GT wrote:
hello there I have a small query I hoped someone out there might
find it i their
heart to answer :
I need to work on my web site and see that
I have no less than at least 4 progs for that :

bluefish 1.0.2
NvU
Quanta
Screem

Ugh. Get a text editor with syntax highlighting and
regular expressions. Download a good (X)HTML
template to modify with that editor.

Umm. Isn't bluefish a text editor? And Quanta? Nvu isn't and I've
not heard of Screem. I don't know why the OP would lump text and
graphical editors together. Maybe bluefish and Quanta have a graphical
mode I don't know about? It's been quite a while since I've looked at
either. Does Nvu have a text mode?

As far as downloading a "good" template. How do you expect anyone to
know a "good" template without knowing HTML and CSS? I don't use, and
don't recommend other people's templates. If you're not going to learn
the language you are dealing with, you might as well just use DW, MS
Word or any of the other graphical editors that spew forth pure crap.

integrated up-download is nice,

You've got to become good with HTML and CSS before that. Until you are
competant, you should depend on sftp or ftp so you are working off-line
and can make a backup before uploading.

I work directly to/from the server and have pulled some big goofs. I'm
also the sys admin so could pull stuff out of backups. Are you the sys
admin?

What are the chances of some WYSIWYG containing
the best tool available? Your operating system will
do the integration of the best tool that will run on
your machine.

???

I am not really looking for
flashy stuff, although being able to create menus
(drop down type) would be nice,

What are the chances of your WYSIWYG having the very best
of all available templates?
Get the best drop-down template in the world for your needs.
Modify it with a text editor.

Again, without knowing the languages involved, how would someone know
the "best"? Not to mention that drop-downs are not necessarily the
best type of menuing system to use.

Make absolutely sure the one you choose
degrades gracefully for visitors who
have no javascript.

That's easy. Learn HTML and CSS to write your pages yourself; don't
bother learning javascript and you won't have to worry about it. None
of your pages will have any.

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