[Sussex] html and stuff

[Steve Williams]

John,

A bit late picking up this thread. However, I use Quanta+ for coding and
I like it. If you've tried Bluefish you should have no trouble getting
to grips with Quanta+

Steve Williams.

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:14, john davis wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> At the end of last week I posted a question about html and stuff, in the hope 
> that someone could come up with an alternative solution to being stuck with 
> having to use F******** from those glorious "cash meisters" at M$. Though I 
> should remind you all that this was due to my ignorance in matters HTML and 
> it's "ilk".
> 
> You responded magnificently, and I can't thank you enough.
> 
> I will admit, that my initial thoughts (with quite a lot of the suggestions 
> were "and how the f*** do they expect me to do that"). But as I was following 
> links and generally looking into following your advice, I have managed to 
> suss out a few things to be able to understand your advice more fully.
> 
> Paul Turners suggestion to try O'Reilly's book's, have yet to bare fruit 
> (work, money, time and some of the "reviews" at amazon have left me undecided 
> which book(s) I will eventually end up with - though that's just a matter of 
> time)
> 
> John Crowhurst's suggestion of trying "sausage" software have been the biggest 
> eye opener. After downloading "sausage" and installing it (then discovering 
> it's a time limited trial version), mean that when I noticed that it's not a 
> WYSIWYG type application, enabled me to go back into my mandrake install and 
> re-examine BLUEFISH.
> 
> And like the proverbial "bolt of lightening", it dawned on me. What with 
> Geoff's suggestions for text editors (not sure if I'm quite ready for that 
> yet) and tags - mean that I now follow what was said about headers, 
> paragraphs and so on.
> 
> 
> One of the other things that was preying on my mind was the lack of scanning 
> facility under mandrake. Over the weekend I have managed (finally) to get it 
> working (though for some strange reason, sane insists in identifying it as an 
> epson GT7000 instead of the epson perfection 1260 photo, that it actually is 
> - though this maybe to do with the fact that the instructions that I followed 
> where "monkey see, monkey do" and I haven't yet managed to use the most up to 
> date sane/xsane/driver etc -not sure). 
> 
> 
> Anyway, this has all culminated in me starting to build my website with 
> Bluefish and the gimp - I doubt whether it will be much more than a basic 
> text/picture thing to start with (but I've got to start somewhere) - I'm 
> still trying to get my head around the image/resolution/file size thing - as 
> I see no point in producing something that looks quite flashy, but takes a 
> virtual millennium to load. Hopefully an atom in a very small nail in a tiny 
> batten in the coffin of microsoft!!! lol
> 
> Oh and while I think about it, I noticed from the w3c mark up site something 
> about the latest version of HTML being released soon - what does this really 
> mean - It said something about supporting additional features etc, but I 
> didn't quite follow what they actually meant by that?
> 
> Anyhow, when i've got it finished, I'll post the URL and you can all have a 
> look and tell me what an unoriginal pile of crap I have produced!
> 
> Again, many thanks for the outstanding advice. All your suggestions are very 
> much appreciated - and I will post more idiot questions IDC.
> 
> regards
> 
> John D :-)