stupid, STUPID question!

[rincewind]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

As far as I can tell, I've got all the code right. I've saved the word
processing file twice, once as a word processing file and once as a
web page file. When I try to use Firefox to open the web page file
(called "index.html") I get all the text exactly as the word
processing file left it.

In other words, the code is showing up as text instead of showing up
as, well commands (boxes, bold, text color, etc.)

It's a short piece, it's supposed to make a calendar for November with
the 18th larger and a different color.

If you want, I'll post the code. But I'll spare you if you wish.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

As far as I can tell, I've got all the code right. I've saved the word
processing file twice, once as a word processing file and once as a
web page file.

If you are entering HTML code in a word processor, save it as a
plain text file.

 

[dorayme]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

As far as I can tell, I've got all the code right. I've saved the word
processing file twice, once as a word processing file and once as a
web page file. When I try to use Firefox to open the web page file
(called "index.html") I get all the text exactly as the word
processing file left it.

In other words, the code is showing up as text instead of showing up
as, well commands (boxes, bold, text color, etc.)

It's a short piece, it's supposed to make a calendar for November with
the 18th larger and a different color.

If you want, I'll post the code. But I'll spare you if you wish.

No, please don't post a URL or anything like that. We like to guess here
and if you start doing this sort of thing, we lose skills carefully
honed for years.

Open notebook, and paste the markup into it. Save as test.html and then
open up in FF and report back.

 

[Travis Newbury]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

Damn, your right. that is a stupid question

Thanks in advance.

No problem

 

[Travis Newbury]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

Ok, here is the real answer. Go to Adobe.com and download the demo
version of dreamweaver, make the page. If this is the last time you
will ever make a page, then you are all set. Life is good, and the
world is round.

On the other hand, if you plan on donig this a lot (making web pages,
not asking stupid questions) then I would advise you to take a day or
two and study HTML. http://www.w3schools.com/ is a perfectly good
place to start. Some here will say they have some bad information,
but I believe it is an easy to use site that for the most part gives
you a good overview and has a lot of examples for you.

Thanks in advance.

No problem. Oh, take a week and just watch this group. You will
quickly catch on to who is giving good advice (like me). And of
couse, like all USNET groups, you may n eed a thick skin to survive.
Enjoy, and remember FLASH is your friend...

 

[richard]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

As far as I can tell, I've got all the code right. I've saved the word
processing file twice, once as a word processing file and once as a
web page file. When I try to use Firefox to open the web page file
(called "index.html") I get all the text exactly as the word
processing file left it.

In other words, the code is showing up as text instead of showing up
as, well commands (boxes, bold, text color, etc.)

It's a short piece, it's supposed to make a calendar for November with
the 18th larger and a different color.

If you want, I'll post the code. But I'll spare you if you wish.


Thanks in advance.

Why do people insist on using word processors for the creation of web
pages?
Any simple plain text editor will do better.
I use note tab light some times as it has plenty of offline resources
to help with.
As does acehtml.

IOW, use the proper tool for the job.

 

[Raymond Schmit]

I'm toying around with hand coding HTML.

As far as I can tell, I've got all the code right. I've saved the word
processing file twice, once as a word processing file and once as a
web page file.

This is not an hand-coding html ..use notepad(or pfe) - and html
tutorials ...

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Why do people insist on using word processors for the creation of web
pages?
Any simple plain text editor will do better.

Actually I would encourage most to use them for the very restricted role
of *composition*. The advanced spell checker and grammar checkers of
word processors could certainty improve many sites out there. But again,
*only* for *composition* of the content text...

 

[rincewind]

No, please don't post a URL or anything like that. We like to guess here
and if you start doing this sort of thing, we lose skills carefully
honed for years.

Open notebook, and paste the markup into it. Save as test.html and then
open up in FF and report back.

I've saved it on my hard drive twice. Once as a plain text file and
once as a "web page." Neither one will open properly in FF.

 

[rincewind]

Ok, here is the real answer.  Go to Adobe.com and download the demo
version of dreamweaver, make the page.  If this is the last time you
will ever make a page, then you are all set.  Life is good, and the
world is round.

On the other hand, if you plan on donig this a lot (making web pages,
not asking stupid questions)

I think I'm capable of doing both, thank you!

 then I would advise you to take a day or

two and study HTML.  http://www.w3schools.com/is a perfectly good
place to start.

I got several books out of the library and took notes. As far as I can
tell, there's nothing wrong with the coding, it just won't "activate."

 Some here will say they have some bad information,

but I believe it is an easy to use site that for the most part gives
you a good overview and has a lot of examples for you.

I'll give it a look. But if they tell me about tags and whatnot,
that's not going to help.

No problem.  Oh, take a week and just watch this group.  You will
quickly catch on to who is giving good advice (like me).  And of
couse, like all USNET groups, you may n eed a thick skin to survive.

Dude, I post on alt.conspiracy. This place holds no terrors for me.

 

[rincewind]

Why do people insist on using word processors for the creation of web
pages?
Any simple plain text editor will do better.
I use note tab light some times as it has plenty of offline resources
to help with.
As does acehtml.

IOW, use the proper tool for the job.

So, would "notepad" or "wordpad" do better?

 

[rincewind]

This is not an hand-coding html  ..use notepad(or pfe)  - and html
tutorials ...

That seems to be the general consensus.

Thanks to everyone who came up with that idea. I'll give it a try and
see what happens.

You are all right, of course. I didn't stop to think that MS Word
would had formatting codes that would cancel out the ability to run as
a web page!

 

[rincewind]

You are all right, of course. I didn't stop to think that MS Word
would had formatting codes that would cancel out the ability to run as
a web page!

YAY! It worked!

OK. I feel better. (I still feel stupid that I didn't realize there
was such a difference between MS Word and note pad.)

So! Any more experiments I do will be done on notepad!

A virtual round for the house!

 

[dorayme]

YAY! It worked!

OK. I feel better. (I still feel stupid that I didn't realize there
was such a difference between MS Word and note pad.)

So! Any more experiments I do will be done on notepad!

A virtual round for the house!

I have never been able to format things with my Notepad on my Windows
box (which remains a sort of mystery to me) but I find Wordpad is
brilliant.

 

[Ari Heino]

rincewind kirjoitti seuraavasti:

So, would "notepad" or "wordpad" do better?

Yes, but you can do better: get an editor with syntax highlighting, such
as Notepad++ (Google). There are many of them.

 

[rincewind]

rincewind kirjoitti seuraavasti:


Yes, but you can do better: get an editor with syntax highlighting, such
as Notepad++ (Google). There are many of them.

Yeah, but I'm just trying to play around right now and I'm just using
what I already have.

 

[Johannes Hafner]

rincewind schrieb:>

I've saved it on my hard drive twice. Once as a plain text file and
once as a "web page." Neither one will open properly in FF.

Does "plain text file" mean a simple text-file or a file in the format
of your word-processor?

An, as already said, it would be *very* usefull to upload your files and
provide an URL...

 

[Johannes Hafner]

rincewind schrieb:>

Does "plain text file" mean a simple text-file or a file in the format
of your word-processor?

An, as already said, it would be *very* usefull to upload your files and
provide an URL...

ok, sorry, forget about it, I just read you already got it.
Should*really* read all the answers first an post afterwards... forgive
me

 

[Raymond Schmit]

That seems to be the general consensus.

Thanks to everyone who came up with that idea. I'll give it a try and
see what happens.

You are all right, of course. I didn't stop to think that MS Word
would had formatting codes that would cancel out the ability to run as
a web page!

I must confess that i had used MS-WORD saving as "Web-Page Filtered"
(filtered is the magic word to mimimize a lot of not-needed stuff)
In fact the origin was a word document i received to publish.
I create another word document and do some copy/paste ... in fact i
created a simple document with the minimum info and the minimum
formatting . This is this document that i saved as "Web-Page
Filtered".
Then i used notepad to modify this page adding link, e-mail-link,
navigation link, some colors, etc....

 

[Raymond Schmit]

rincewind kirjoitti seuraavasti:

Yes, but you can do better: get an editor with syntax highlighting, such
as Notepad++ (Google). There are many of them.

Notepad++ have a nice feature that i used: You can do a replace all
the strings "AAAAblablaAAA" by the strings "AAAAblubluAAA" on all the
selected files in one click.