Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

Interesting!!!

Unfortunately I don't own a copy of Visual Basic. Neither I have Windows PC here, all Unix and Linux PCs. Maybe I can find the solution on Open Source. Can you advise what criteria to be used for googling? Changing source code to html tags? TIA

B.R.
satimis

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

I think kingvjack is saying that VB will automatically format and layout code neatly (i.e. indentation, newlines, etc )

On Linux.. Quanta Plus does that, I think. Not sure about any Gnome apps, but any decent HTML/XHTML editor should have this as a feature.

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

Thanks for your advice.


I'm replying your posting on Ubuntu server with only a light weight desktop, Fluxbox, running. Neither I have Gnome installed. However "apt-cache" found "quanta 4:3.5" on repo. I'll get an Ubuntu workstation to install this package.

Ah, I recall I have an Archlinux box here with "bluefish", the html editor, installed. I'll check whether it has this feature.


B.R.
satimis

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

You can also use a commonly available command-line program called 'tidy' ( thats also the command name ) to automatically layout an HTML file.. but, read the 'tidy' documentation first; because its also an error-fixer, and can thus be quite invasive..

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

I'm running a light-weight text editor, leafpad, on Ubuntu server. It works for me for html editing to build webpage.

What I need is a package which can read "page source" easily. On browser, clicking View --> Page Source, I can view the codes. But it is NOT easy to read w/o copying the same on a text editor and rearranging them. I expect to read the tags/code directly on a package w/o further treatment.


Re "tidy", I found follows on googling;
Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

HTML Tidy Library Project
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Tidy online - HTML Tidy
http://infohound.net/tidy/

PHP: tidy - Manual
Tidy Functions
http://hk2.php.net/tidy


It is available on Ubuntu repo.
$ apt-cache policy tidy
tidy:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20051018-1
Version table:
20051018-1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
* end *


B.R.
satimis

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

The first link is the 'tidy' I'm talking about.

To use it would be a case of:

- Open page in browser
- View > Source
- Select All
- Copy
- Open Editor
- Paste
- Save as thefile.html
- Go to cmd line
- Run

tidy -im thefile.html

- Reopen thefile.html in editor
- Examine.

Seems long.. but not really. Bluefish has tidy integrated as a plugin, but, you'd need to configure it to enable the indent option ( it's off by default )

'tidy' is listed by my package manager ( urpmi for Mandriva, offical repos ).

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

It will helpful to visit E Learning Centre's website for learning html easily

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

Thanks for your advice.


Now I 'm replying your positing on "Ubuntu 7.10" workstation. It is no good to do web design and graphic editing. I replied previous postings on Ubuntu 7.10 server.

$ apt-cache search tidy | grep tidy

csstidy - CSS parser and optimiser

libexporter-tidy-perl - Another way of exporting symbols

libtidy-ruby - Ruby interface to HTML Tidy Library

libtidy-ruby1.8 - Ruby interface to HTML Tidy Library

perltidy - Perl script indenter and reformatter

python-elementtidy - An HTML tree builder for ElementTree based on Tidy

python-utidylib - Python wrapper for TidyLib

tidy-doc - HTML syntax checker and reformatter documentation

tidy-proxy - A small http proxy which tidies html

php5-tidy - tidy module for php5

Which package/packages shall I install? TIA


I'm prepared doing graphic editing on php rather than going back to GIMP (PhotoShop) as I did previously. I'm interested on coding rather than clicking around on screen with mouse. I have php5, libgd2-xpm, php5-gd, etc packages installed on this workstation. I have no idea whether I need apache2. If needed I'll install it later.


B.R.
satimis

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

Whether you meant follow;

http://www.e-learningcenter.com/free_html_course.htm

and similar sites. Thanks


B.R.
satimis

Re: Searching tutorial on html editing to build website
 

Hi MattEvans,


I go my problem solved as follow;


Adding following repo on /etc/apt/source.list

deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install tidy


Done


Following your advice, recreate a "tidyfile.html" file by running "tidy -im ....". Re-open the file. The format there is very clear. Thanks


B.R.
satimis