Question to template modders:

[N9ne]

Me being one I hope

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?

[filburt1]

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.

[assassingod]

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

[N9ne]

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

[filburt1]

Okay, no offense (and don't take this literally either ) 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.

[assassingod]

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.

[Rufus69]

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

[N9ne]

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

[filburt1]

Originally posted by ffdcsite
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.

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.

[assassingod]

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