RE: Learing HTML (was: Branden Hall. FLASH: A solution to zipped files on Mac's!)

[Robinson, Keith]

Input from a new guy to the list.

I just wanted to stress to anyone who is just getting started working the web.  Good HTML skills are a must...whether your working with Flash or whatever, you'll need that HTML expertise sometime.  As Angel said it's not that hard to pick it up and the more you use it the easier it gets....It seems like I learn some new trick all the time though...

Oh yea-

BBEdit is great.  Try Homesite for PC.



> It's kind of funny to see people so worried about learning HTML on a list

> devoted to a fairly difficult app like FLASH.  Don't be afraid of it; you

> can pickup a fair working knowledge of HTML very quickly.  Just be sure to

> start with *basics*, don't jump feet first into cascading style sheets or

> DHTML. (The Visual Quickstart Guide is a good place to start.)  And don't

> try learning HTML within a WYSIWYG editor.  Use a text editor.

> 

> Once you know even a little HTML, the best tool (I'm assuming you're on a

> Mac from the discussion) is BBEdit.  (You can get BBEdit lite for free all

> over the place, but it's the BBEdit you have to pay for that has the really

> hepful HTML features.)   It is *not* a WYSIWYG editor, it's a text editor,

> but it has all sorts of really neat functions that really help.  (When I

> first got it it cut my HTML time in half.  Really.)

> 

> WYSIWYG editors are just not a good idea for serious web development.  They

> throw a lot of glorp into the code that can be a big problem for

> cross-browser and cross-platform compatability.  You can always generate

> code wherever you like, though, so that you can visualize it quickly, and

> then clean up the HTML

> 

> Angel

> >

> >Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:17:36 -0800

>

>From: Byron Canfield <barnbyronc [dot] com>

> >Subject: Re: Branden Hall. FLASH: A solution to zipped files on Mac's!

> >

> >There's no substitute for knowing HTML, though. Even DreamWeaver, though it

> >does a lot, will not do everything, and, at some point, on some file,

> >you'll need to tweak the HTML.

> >

> >At 01:14 AM 1/6/99 +1100, you wrote:

> >>Get yourself a copy of Dreamweaver and create some REAL pages!!!!

> >>

> <snip>

> >>>

> >>>I've just got the basics together but I'm having real problems with my html

> >>>layout programe. I'm currently using Claris Homepage 3.0 to do my basic

> >>>layouts but it's really limited - is there any thing thats better or would

> >>>you advise knuckling down and learning html code?

> >>>

> >>>Thanks alot

> >>>

> >>>Jake

> >>>

> 

> Web Designer,

> Humanities Computing Facility

> 

> 

> 

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