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Kaine

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shmoogle wrote:
Frontpage is the work of the devil

agreed

Thu Aug 07 2008 8:16am

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Thu Aug 07 2008 9:31am

Pelyma

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I'm pulling my hair (what's left) out with this. My lad has read all about html and subjected me to hours of cross examination, but we seem to have fallen at the first hurdle He has tried both word and simple text to save the following:
<html>
<head>
<title>Galaxies</title>
</head>
<body> This is pants</body>
</html>

Saving it as a .html file, but when you view it through the browser it shows up as the code rather than what it should do, any ideas? Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Tue Oct 07 2008 7:27pm

Kaine

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nothing wrong with the html - what editor are you using? i may be the fact its not saving as the correct format

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Tue Oct 07 2008 8:24pm

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Agreed, works fine.

To test it you can put the HTML into notepad and save as "test.html" and then this should open in your default browser when you open it! Using notepad will ensure it is saved as plain test, so like Kaine says would suggest a problem in your editor and how it is saving it.

Tue Oct 07 2008 9:17pm

Pelyma

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Initially he used word and tried a .txt next he tried .html then he tried the mac equivalent of notepad textedit as a .html As usual I haven't a clue! Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Tue Oct 07 2008 9:49pm

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is there any book at your local library that might help you/him

Tue Oct 07 2008 10:06pm

Kaine

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Pelyma - to be honest you need to avoid using software such as Word - its definetely worthwhile getting a proper editor to learn. Try 'Crimson Editor' for one. These editors do clever little things like highlighting different types of text (i.e. constants, strings, variable etc) which helps when the code gets more complicated.

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Tue Oct 07 2008 10:45pm

Pelyma

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That's why we switched to texteditor. WRT the Crimson editor, do you still type the code or is it a WYSIWYG program as I am keen that he actually learns what is going on - which to be fair he seems to get on what he has tried so far using www.davesite.com it is just saving the work. Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Wed Oct 08 2008 6:20am

Kaine

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Crimson Ed is just a code editor (no WYSIWYG) unfortunately

Wed Oct 08 2008 6:50am

shmoogle

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That HTML is fine - I've cut and pasted it into Notepad, saved it as test.html and opened it - it renders fine in IE as expected. I use something called Primalscript for any scripting I have to do, whether it be HTML, ASP, VBScript etc. It might be a little complicated for a 9yr old, but then in this day and age who knows.

There's always HTML for Dummies to fall back on, but I wonder if P Jr hasn't yet moved ahead of that?

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Wed Oct 08 2008 9:48am

Pelyma

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P Jr isn't as clever as he'd like to think!!! I have tried it note pad and looked at in IE7 and it works like you say so a big chaps - he might get his school project done yet!!! Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Wed Oct 08 2008 11:55am

anders

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Pelyma

Just found this topic, a free software like notepad is textpad4 its free to download and the word wrap renders the text in a nice viewable format so when viewing larger coding pages you can make the changes easy where notepad word wrap makes reading hard!! Granted your not at that stage yet but just wanted to suggest it.

I know you said you did not want costs involved but if he is really keen on learning then maybe get dreamweaver yep it takes a bit to get used to and its costly but hey kids like a challenge right?!?!

Failing that if you want I have a hosted cms editor on my web server that my clients use to up date their sites, the editor can be limited to just a what you see is what you get editor and you can only edit parts of a web page or I can code it so that you can view the html this way you can create your html press save and it auto updates the online file, thus taking away the need to ftp the new file

Normally this is a charged service I do for clients as its using space on my server etc.. but if you want to get some hosting space then I could provide access to the tool and you and your son could play around with it

If you want more info drop me a message hopefully it makes sense what I am trying to say other wise drop me a message and can give you a contact number if you want a chat

Either way good luck and congrats to your son for wanting to learn something at that age

Wed Oct 08 2008 12:02pm

Pelyma

Member Since: 28 Sep 2005
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Hi Anders

Thanks for the offer, its most generous. I'm going to see how he gets on ( a bit of struggling won't hurt) and if he starts to do something useful maybe Father Christmas might bring him something Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

Wed Oct 08 2008 1:49pm

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