Question to template modders:
 

Me being one I hope :D

Anyway, this is just a quick question, I was wondering, say when you modify a template *a lot*, what do you do? Just make the modifications...or, like me, delete the entire contents of the template and start over?

Depends on the template. If I edit it to the point of no return it's deleted and done in Dreamweaver. If it's little bits everywhere then I edit the existing one.

I do what filburt does - except with out dreamweaver (All my code is preduced in notepad)

filburt, you use dreamweaver?! Why not notepad...like ffdcsite and I...notepad owns :D

Okay, no offense (and don't take this literally either :D) but people who claim Notepad is god are idiots.

1. Can't do table layouts
2. Doesn't automatically indent
3. No one-key previewing
4. Doesn't automatically specify image widths and heights--a good idea as it speeds page loading

2 is inexcusable. At the bare minimum use something like Arachnophilia.

Thats true filburt, thats the only reason I use Wordpad other notpad.
But I know too much about tables to use dreamweaver or anything like that.

I use metapad...notepad sucks, its soooo...microsoft...

notepad does me fine, I can do indenting myself if I need to...

I can code tables without using dreamweaver stuff

Ctrl+S and then refresh the browser window with the page loaded up there...simple enough for me

I can specify them myself ;)

Well I know how to code tables too naturally but there comes a point where making a mess of nested tables with colspans and rowspans everywhere just can't be reasonably done with a non-WYSIWYG editor. :)

Yeah, thats a good point.
I must admit dreamweaver is good - though I think its better to do the code yourself for practice:)

Oh yeah, to start off definitely don't start with a WYSIWIG editor or you won't learn anything. To be fair in DW I spend at least half the time in code view editing the code DW makes or making my own.

I have another NotePad editor, Notepad has too little features. You can produce code etc. but it's not the easiest way in code layout etc. If you know what I mean.

I make mods, I don't start the whole template over.

1st Page Pro is the best textbased code editor out there IMO... It's like a lite version of the old Allaire Homesite (before Macromedia ruined it)

Loads as fast as notepad but gives you all of the extra features from dreamweaver, without the WYSIWYG interface

I re-write the template from notetab light. In some cases i will do the mod from the template editor built into vbulletin.

Honestly i hate the WYSIWYG interface.