html newbie question

Midnyte_Ragebringer · December 13, 2002, 6:49 pm

I made my first page real quick in MSWord, saved it as an html document, then opened it in IE and it cam up showing me all the brackets and everything.

What did I do wrong? Why didn't it come up like it is supposed to?

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » December 13, 2002, 6:51 pm

First off you used MS WORD.

There are much better editors out there included Notepad.

Not sure what happened in your case though. I have avoided using Word for those kind of things.

Post by **Xouqoa** » December 13, 2002, 6:53 pm

Word adds a ton of Microsoft Office propriety code into the files when you export them, if you have to use an editor, get Dreamweaver or Frontpage. Also, make sure you save the file as *.htm or *.html or the browser will think it is a text file.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · December 13, 2002, 6:56 pm

Thanks yall.

Post by **pyrella** » December 13, 2002, 6:57 pm

I personally use dreamweaver - it has the WYSIWYG features most people want from Frontpage - without all the bloat. In fact it will take a Frontpage piece of code and has an option that says "Get this shit out of my document I don't need".

Also, in the plain text view where I spend most of my time, it has OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of nice features, most importantly syntax highlighting.

Hit http://www.macromedia.com and download their trial.

Post by **Xouqoa** » December 13, 2002, 7:26 pm

Yes, Dreamweaver MX is the shit.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · December 13, 2002, 8:09 pm

Ok I think I may suffer from mild retardation or something. I loaded up frontpage and tried it again still coming out with all the brackets. Gonna have to bribe Fash to come over and show me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks guys

noel · Post by **noel** » December 13, 2002, 8:24 pm

It it's truly basic HTML, feel free to email it to me.

I'll take a look at it and fix the problem and email it back to you.

Make sure you put HTML HELP in the subject line, or my junk mail folder will eat it.

Krindol · Post by **Krindol** » December 13, 2002, 8:44 pm

You also may want to check out the tutorials at http://www.pageresource.com for basic html help.

noel · Post by **noel** » December 13, 2002, 9:01 pm

http://www.echoecho.com is also very good.

Adela · Post by **Adela** » December 13, 2002, 9:32 pm

Pussies.

Notepad is king

Fash · Post by **Fash** » December 13, 2002, 9:43 pm

Notepad, pico/linux, simpletext/mac. I use at least 2 each day heh...

noel · Post by **noel** » December 13, 2002, 10:25 pm

Mid, I replied. I think I figured out what the problem was. It's in the email.

Post by **pyrella** » December 13, 2002, 10:35 pm

copy con file.html

~

Midnyte_Ragebringer · December 13, 2002, 10:59 pm

Woot. Thanks Aranuil.

Thanks everyone for all the advice.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » December 14, 2002, 10:40 am

OMG! copy con.....

I was working on a config file for a prog the other day and instead of opening it back up and fucking with it I decided to start from scratch and used copy con. The guy I was trying to help out was scratching his head hard and asked what I did. Damn noobs.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » December 14, 2002, 12:28 pm

notepad are you fucking kidding me

i got 2 letters for you

V

and

I

fucking notepad.

choke on your tongue!!

if you truly must use a windows text editor, textpad is THE choice period end of story.

fucking notepad.

fuck that shit

actually i prefer emacs, but the rant sounds more convincing if you are some hard core VI snob

Ogbar · Post by **Ogbar** » December 14, 2002, 2:02 pm

I have always like editpad, myself

When in Linux, though, VI all the way

Gordiken the Wicked · December 14, 2002, 2:56 pm

"newbie html question" not "complete advanced html question"

noel · Post by **noel** » December 14, 2002, 4:41 pm

Gordiken the Wicked wrote:"newbie html question" not "complete advanced html question"

Trust me. If I was able to help him, it was a newb question.

Adela · Post by **Adela** » December 15, 2002, 4:48 am

*shrug*

I was only suggesting notepad for you amateurs.

I use sequenced punch cards, myself.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » December 16, 2002, 2:03 pm

hardcore

i'm basically attempting to make my html in the hardware itself.

FUCK YOU REDMOND

i have taken an old tsr-80, 2 rolls of electrical tape, a coil of solder, 4 vacuum tubes, and 5000 of those little resistors in the back of radio shack, and at this point have gotten the page header done. i'd estimate only 20,000 man hours left till i get a bulleted list of 5 items describing how godly i am.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · December 16, 2002, 3:06 pm

ummm yeah...you ahhh rule Vor

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » December 16, 2002, 3:10 pm

You are doomed to fail Voro. No Duct Tape? what are you thinking?

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » December 16, 2002, 3:26 pm

back to the drawing board...

Post by **pyrella** » December 16, 2002, 3:42 pm

is a Speak n Spell hooked up to a commodore 64 with a 300baud acoustic modem advanced enough?

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » December 16, 2002, 3:46 pm

speak and spell is a stroke of genious!

my original prototype had an etch-a-sketch as the input device. as you might suspect getting the device to output was not trivial.

Post by **pyrella** » December 16, 2002, 3:50 pm

I started with a magna-doodle, but it kept wiping out my floppies =/

Thoughts on Light-Bright for an interactive input/display 'touch'screen device?

Forthe · Post by **Forthe** » December 16, 2002, 4:23 pm

In addition to the duct tape I recommend you invest in more vacuum tubes.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » December 16, 2002, 4:49 pm

Emacs has nice syntax checking mode(s), it's great for code of any sort. There's something disturbing about a text editor that takes up 20Mb+ of disk space though.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » December 16, 2002, 4:56 pm

yeah if i was smarter i would have figured out how that fucking program is so damn big!

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » December 16, 2002, 5:11 pm

elisp