In article <419313e6$1@quokka.wn.com.au>,
Henry <smcoptyltd@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > I was using FrontPage many years ago.
>
> Yeah! Cough...cough... than was total crap.
>
> > I have not touched it for 6 years. I
> > advocate _no_ automatic Web design, unless you are not fluent with SGML or
> > not comfortable with the concept (as sometimes is the case with
> > non-scientists, e.g. Word versus LaTeX).
>
>
> I love FP 2003 because when I have splitted page, on the bottom I have a
> layout and on the top the code. When I press on layout, it highlights
> the code and vice versa.
>
> Any work on layout is showing immediately in code.
>
> So basically I use it as *good text editor* with a preview.
>
> When I have to replace some code like
>
> <font face="Arial" size="5" color="#FF0000">
Try using CSS instead... that sirt of code is waaay outdated
>
> I'll highlight the code, press Ctrl-F to find it and than I have a
> windows asking me, if I want to replace that code with nothing or with a
> different code.
>
> When I have to replace with different code, FP is asking me if I want to
> replace every instance of a original code.
>
> That way is FAST!!! Try imagine replace 25 instances. ;-P
As above..... Using CSS is much better for such things.
>
> Working with tables is very easy. All I have to do is to remove unwanted
> code like cell height and other crap from M$ and I can see what I'm doing.
>
> Just in case I have my file opened in Firefox and I'm checking if I'm
> going right.
>
> FP has one more great feature.
>
> When I see nice page and I want to copy something from it, I save page,
> open it in FP, make new blank page and copy some elements from copied page.
>
> FP is copying often that element with css coding just for the element
> only. Neat huh?
>
> It's just... me.
Each to their own.... but there are plenty of other Good text editors
out there with preview panes that don't write bad code themselves, they
just leave it up to you!
Al.
>
> ;)
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