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Doctor HTML is a Web page analysis tool which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds. The primary focus of this tool is to provide a clear, easy-to-use report of information that is relevant for improving your Web page. If this is your first visit, you may wish to start with a look at the test descriptions.

Doctor HTML

Originally posted 2003-09-07 18:48:50. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Author: jesse gilbert

5 Ways To Use Microsoft FrontPage To Quickly Make Your Web Sites Look More Professional

Building professional looking websites can definitely be challenging.

While anyone in the world can learn the basics of html and get an operational site up and running on the internet, making a site that looks attractive can be another story altogether!

The internet abounds with cheap-looking mom and pop sites that look like they were designed by a first year html student.

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There Is Nothing Wrong With Using WYSIWGY Editors, If You Already Know How To Write HTML

Author: Regina Stevens

This article is not to persuade anyone to change their existing methods of producing websites, nor is it my intention to offend anyone. I wrote this article to defend people who like to use WYSIWYG editors.

There really is nothing wrong with using a WYSIWYG editor – especially if you already know how to write HTML and scripts. When you know how to write your code, you can better understand what is going on with the code. Actually, if you don’t know how to write HTML, a WYSIWYG editor can be a good learning tool.

If you are designing websites for profit and you do not know HTML very well, then reaching project goals will be difficult and you may have some unhappy clients, which is never good. I would start out designing small websites or build websites that do not have a deadline.

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I’ve been staying away from extentions for Firefox to make installations of new releases as painless as possible. I figured I’d load up the browser after 1.0 arrives. But this packs too much stuff in one extension for me to be able to resist:

The Web Developer extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. View the full list of features.

Web Developer extension

CuteMenus doesn’t really count.

Like most Windows users I got away from CLI FTP as soon as possible. Equally commonly I started with the noncommercial version of WS-FTP. That program never seemed to make adequate use of the Windows explorer.

Before I abandoned Front Page I started using it as much as an FTP client as anything else. Too much code to load just to transfer a file.

I’ve forgotten the freeware FTP clients I played with. They were always buggy, crashed and the developer usually went on to other things like dating girls before releasing 1.0.

SmartFTP was the first FTP client to make me happy. Edifying Spectacle is a hobby so I never registered the software. I’ve come to resent the way it opens a new browser window to take me to the SmartFTP home page. If I were violating the license that isn’t going to shell out.

Liking the product I started thinking that maybe I should give them money. Thinking about spending made me feel I should see what the commercial FTP clients offered. FTP Voyager struck me as the best but too expensive for my meager means.

Then I discovered Filezilla at SourceForge. I’m sure there are specialized features needed by some folks in their FTP clients. My RSI damaged fingers want easy drag and drop. Since I always save optimized images to the same local directory I appreciate it that Filezilla remembers where I was last.

Filezilla

An alternative to Textile.

Output normally conforms to the ISO-8859-1 standard, but Allow Unicode will convert characters such as em-dashes and curly quotes to numeric entities instead of removing or substituting them.

malevolent design Character Cleaner