LRod said:

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:29:34 -0500, Greg wrote:

I've worked with HTML in the past, and, truthfully, I can't really deal with
the boredom. I do have...if I can recall the name...NoteTab or some such
already on my hard drive, so I'll try to look at the site with that later
on. It may be possible to clean it up that way.

You could create a template and use it for all your other/new pages.
NotePad comes with Windoze, and can be used to edit manually.
DO NOT, however, use WordPad - it will make a mess of things.

I agree with that. I wouldn't even use NotePad. It has some
surprisingly severe limitations that aren't apparent if you're just
writing 2 and 3K documents. There's a NotePad+ freeware substitute out
in networld somewhere that's installed as a substitute on every
computer I get my hands on. Far, far better than the native NotePad.

Never claimed to _use_NotePad, only suggesting it as a possible
solution. I use UltraEdit, and back in the good-old DOS days, used
Qedit by Semware - which was then a local company.

However, I now use EditPad Lite and it's almost everything I've wanted
in a text editor used for HTML coding.

Haven't use that one - but there are literally thousands...

I've downloaded probably four other editors, too, but I was already
ingrained with EditPad when I did, so didn't feel the overwhelming
urge to wring any of them out.

Here is a scary though... It took me forever to break the habit of
the using WordStar conventions while typing. CTL-K, D etc. I
absolutely despise(d) Windoze - although less so as they began to
include hot keys for common operations.

I, too, hand code all of my HTML. Obviously I maintain my own site
(below), but I also maintain ShopTours.org, and I code articles in the
Articles section at WoodCentral as well.

I don't have the time to code by hand anymore, and use DW for initial
layout, but still tweak by hand. I haven't updated my bloated, ADD*
personal site since 2000. It was the first site I wrote, way back in
1998, and consisted of various experiments grafted together into one
big, offensive mess. There are more graphics, JAVA applets, eye-candy
and animated GIFs than should be allowed by law. ;-)

Maybe I'll fix it one day...

On my site, I have two or three templates that I use for most of the
various functions, so the 500+ files on site don't necessarily mean I
hand wrote every line of code for each. I mean I did, but the vast
majority of it was cut-and-paste of my original work.

The gist of my original site was a JavaScript Engine that pulled pages
into a framed screen - similar to pressing buttons on a TV and
receiving different channels. There is a JAVA applet in the top
frame, a music player frame, a static navigation frame, and all the
_other_ things a good designer avoids. But the actual pages were
nothing but content, and were boiler-plated. So it made updates and
additions a snap to perform.

Since I have since decided that television and most other things
electronic are the devils spawn, I should update it to CSS (which did
not functionally exist at that time) and be done with it.

Believe me, none of my customers have been burdened by such an
atrocity... ;-)

*Attention Deficit disorder...


Greg G.