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help! webpage making doesn't work!

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operate

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May 25, 2005
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i'm new to mac and i don't understand how webpage making works.
on pcs i used to write html in notepad, save as .html and look at them in explorer.
but if i try and do the same with mac the document doesn't change to a webpage, it's just code.
i don't want to use dreamweaver or stuff like that. just coding.
can someone help me?
 
it still doesn't work.

it's just code.

is mac code diffrent then pc?
i don´t get it.
 
do you have a complete html page - ie. <title> <head> <body> tags, etc.?
if you have a complete html page you should be fine. try saving an example like this below, make sure to include a .htm, .html on your file name.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>your content tags here</p>
</body>
</html>
 
if your writing it in text edit, you need to convert it plain text first.

try having it in text edit, go to the FORMAT menu, and go down to MAKE PLAIN TEXT. Then try doing it again
 
Get TextWrangler http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml or find an old copy of BBEdit Lite. Those are my *free* favorites, but there are other editors that you might like. Other people may want to make some suggestions. You don't have to worry about changing formats of the file, etc., and it will handle formatting/indenting and text coloring better.

TextEdit isn't very useful, imho. it's ok for config files, etc., because those are usually relatively short files and TextEdit opens more quickly than other editors i've seen. but overall, i don't care for it too much.
 
I have never used HTML until about 2 hours ago. I went on the recommendation of several people for TACO. I was able to create a basic crappy website, only one page and the formatting was terrbile but with a little work I should be able to figure it out. I found it very easy to use TACO.

I am not a programmer by any streach of the imagination and if found taco very easy to use.
 
No! I used to use Taco, but a few months ago I upgraded to SubEthaEdit.
It has modes for 10s of different languages and highlights syntax just as expected. You can even have several people over the internet or your local network editing the same file, though I've never actually had the need to try it out...

Basically, it's replaced TextEdit in my dock...
And free for non-commercial use!


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