[WEB4LIB] RE: Strategy on designing web page

[Matthew Theobald]

Other than pico and notepad or simpletext, the only HTML editor I used with some
"advanced" functions is UltraEdit32.  Color codes the tags, adds nothing.  Not a
viewer.  Very good.

It's doesn't try to be anything like DreamWeaver or FrontPage.
However I do like to use DreamWeaver to layout tables and then remove any
unnecessary code.

-Matt

Bill Feidt wrote:

> Faced with inconsistent results of the kind you describe, I'd first
> make sure that my HTML was syntactically correct. Non-standard HTML
> is very often responsible for this kind of symptom.  An easy way to
> check is to use the WDG HTML Validator:
>
>   http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/
>
> If your page(s) has problems, this validator will identify then and
> provide help in making the necessary corrections.
>
> And yes, "WYSIWYG" HTML editors are notorious for producing illegal
> HTML, although I can't comment specifically about the Netscape product
> since I've never used it.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bill Feidt
> AgNIC
> wfeidt at agnic.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Giacanelli [mailto:md1251 at mclink.it]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 6:44 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Strategy on designing web page
>
> Dear Web4Libbers,
>
> I would like to have advice from you about designing web page with Netscape
> Composer. I use Composer to design the web page of our library but what I am
> experiencing are problems in visualizing the pages with different browser.
>
> Paragraph which seems to be correctly formatted in Netscape, receive more
> space e.g. between each other in MSIE. If I open Wordpad and work directly
> on HTML code I notice a lot of <BR> tags I suppose inserted automatically by
> Netscape; tables are bigger in one browser than in another with problems
> with the readability of the page.  This sound simple problems with HTML, but
> I waste a lot of time also for inserting simple textual news. I know that
> perhaps is better to work directly on HTML code, but as I work as solo I
> don't have so much time.
>
> Are HTML editor so unreliable? (I tried to open a page with FrontPage editor
> and it looks completly different formatted as in Netscape). Is a question of
> validation of HTML code?
>
> Any advice on strategy for designing web page will be appreciate.
> Best regards
> Francesco Giacanelli

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