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2006-01-25, 09:32 AM
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The Original Greenguy (Est'd 1996) & AVN HOF Member - I Crop Pics For Thumbs In My Sleep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blasdell, NY (shithole suburb south of Buffalo)
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If you don't know how to code pages (by hand or in an editor) then you really need to learn that 1st before you do anything else.
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2006-01-25, 12:03 PM
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There's Xanax in my thurible!
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Wherever they screw on my head
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 IMO, you should know how to code by hand, even if it's just to fix issues made by code built by an editor before you are even making freesites or galleries. |
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2006-01-25, 01:52 PM
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Arghhhh...submit yer sites ya ruddy swabs!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Sunny Florida!
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I recently hired an outsourcing company to do some very basic grunt work for me...easy cut n paste kinda stuff. What I didn't know was he was using DW. Long story short...I sent him clean coded pages that validate to start from...what I got back had everything from tons of white space in the code...to blown tags...to duplicated tags...to inserted height tags where he was draggin and droppin...to just outright garbage code. Personally, I won't touch an editor...all hand coding for me. But, if you're going to use an editor...use it for convenience only and make damn sure you know what the code should look like before trusting an editor to do it for you. |
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2006-01-25, 05:20 PM
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Lord help me, I'm just not that bright
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ
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2006-01-25, 05:45 PM
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You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Haven, CT
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Baby steps. Coding everything by hand is a huge time sink, but it's how you should start if you don't know HTML. Once you learn to hand code a few free sites, get Dreamweaver or Homesite to speed up your work. Even if you stay in code view, it's a much faster alternative to notepad or TextPad.
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2006-01-25, 08:11 PM
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Lonewolf Internet Sales
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Houston
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Coding web pages by hand, particularly if you're using CSS elements, is just too time consuming. I build the basic structure in design view, then fine tune and add any scripting (ASP, PHP, javascript, etc) in code view. Dreamweaver is a powerful tool that can create very clean code if used properly. But it call also create an absolute mess. My best advice is to never highlight in design view to select an object, click within the desired area then click the appropriate tag in the status bar. This has gotten a little further off topic than intended, but my point is this: It's not the tool that's bad, but the improper use of the tool. |
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