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

[Kenneth C. Sherwood]

Angelique Gulermovich Epstein wrote:


> 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


You forgot to mention that BBEdit has a "PageMill Cleaner" utility. So you can

use PageMill as you wish, when appropriate, and then BBEdit will clean out the

glorp for you.


HTH.


Ken



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