Re: TECH: Front Page Express et al.

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> I am actually at work on a webpages for Kash, presently retyping a lot
> of
> stuff using MS Front Page Express, which is a WYSIWYG thingy.  I've
> noted
> that characters like ñ, ç, á etc. (which I can type directly from
> Intl.
> keyboard) appear just that way in the HTML version (also if I use the
> Alt
> Num codes).  Shouldn't they have HTML codes?
Indeed.

   Or is FPE somehow smart
> enough  to convert the symbols to the codes whenever I upload the page
> to a
> server (somehow I doubt it.....). Or doesn't it matter?  Should I edit
> the
> HTML, adding the codes where necessary?   Thought I'd better ask before
> I go
> too much further.
> Any other advice will be welcome.  Thanks in advance.  Roger.
>
I think you'd rather abandon WYSIWYG webpage makers! I've read on a webpage
someone who had made the same page, once by typing directly the HTML code, the
other time by using Netscape Composer. The pages looked identical, but the page
directly typed downloaded twice as fast as the one made by Netscape Composer.
Personally I simply use Wordpad and check the result with Internet Explorer or
Netscape (depending on what I have on the computer). I don't find it difficult.
HTML is not a difficult language, as long as you don't try spooky things :) .
There are plenty of pages on Internet to learn HTML. Try a Google search!

But if you want to carry on, you'd better change the accented characters to the
HTML codes. At least they are less platform dependent.

Christophe.

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