| From: | Chris Merrell |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2000 at 19:17:34 |
| Subject: | Re: I want to create a web page |
Hello Jonathan
On 16-Sep-00, Jonathan Hart wrote:
> Hi there Chris
> On 13-Sep-00, you wrote:
>> WebPlug is a good start. But all you really need is a text editor and a
>> good HTML book.
> Right, but I wouldn't agree that webPlug is a good start. I used it for a
> while and found learning with just CygnusED, a book and all the browsers
> (for compatibility) loaded is actually easier. In fact webPlug is IMHO a
> little counter-productive, but at least the author seemed a nice bloke (I
> talked to him at last years WOA).
Yes. OK. But the guy origanlly said that he has NO experience with HTML, and
webplug does macro layouts of web pages thus helping to get him started quickly.
I sent an email to register webplug, but as yet I haven't heard a peep back
about it. Hmm :-/
> That latest beta of WP had nice context colouring for tags etc, but is
> unfinished, unstable- you couldn't trust it. Other options- well:
Haven't tried that yet. I'm just using the demo version of an AA CD.
> The supposedly WSIWYG MetalWeb is the pits- never even install it, it will
> make your life a worthless shell, a world of pain. If you've ever seen the
> film Event Horizon- that hell place is like the kind of code it produces.
I tottally agree with you about Metalweb. I tried to use both V3 an V4. V3 would
run for about 2 minutes before crashing out, and V4 just locks my machine up as
soon as I launch it. Hmmmm :-/
> So, we're back to text editors that are good for hyper text markup... GoldED
> does the tag colours thing, as part of a supposedly great HTML plugin, and
> is also a pretty good text editor according to some.
Gold ed is cool :-)
> But CED is better. CED has /enormous/ menus and you think it's gonna' be
> really Germanic and complicated, but it's very cool for stuff like HTML,
> with its multi-window spon-doofery...(sorry if I'm getting too technical ;)
CED is good, but a little confusing to the beginner.
> It really is the best all round text editor since Sir Clement Atlee first
> ratified the text editor treaty of 1948, allowing widespread access to
> previously top-secret source code files which meant the birth of the modern
> text editor as we know it (TextEditor #1, created in 1959 by Dr Eugene
> Barthel (Olaf's grandad) and used on Sputnik, was the first of these
> efforts, BTW).
You learn something new every mail ;->
> CONCLUSION.
> Use a text editor and a book connected to HTML learning. Create tapes of
> your own voice speaking HTML tags to speed up the learning process. Don't
> play them backwards. And remember- if you can give yourself a bit of time,
> HTML in its basic form is really quite easy to pick up, so don't- give up!
> :)
I agree, (except the bit about taping yourself :-P) but it's what the guy is
comfortable in using to creat his webpages that counts.
Regards
Chris Merrell
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