![]() ![]() ¬†It’s not cost effective to spend time¬†hand coding¬†HTML, if at all possible. I get paid for providing information¬†that interests my readers, editors, and clients. ¬†It takes a couple of extra¬†mouse clicks, but I can pretty much trust that the page will render correctly.¬†īuilding Web pages has always been a huge timesink, for me. ¬†I usually don’t use the Preview tab and prefer to start up Firefox to view the working file directly, after 95% or so of the article has been written. ¬†The HTML Tags tab shows things with representative boxes around the text, which I’ve never found that helpful. ¬†The Source tab is used when I want to verify some HTML construct or if I need to tweak the tags a bit. ¬†I use the Normal view for writing articles because what I create is pretty close to what the page will look like after posting on a Web site. ¬†Web pages that will be maintained over time, would get the CSS treatment.Īlong the bottom of the text area are tabs that let you view the page in different ways. ¬†For content that will go into a content management system, I just change things manually. ¬†You can choose CSS style markup for body text and headings or simply change the text size and font characteristics, as needed. ¬†Changing fonts, making the text larger/smaller, or bold are as easy as highlighting your desired text and clicking the appropriate button. Just above the main text editing area are the text tool bars. Just use the keyboard and everything works properly. ¬†It is a known problem, that has not been fixed as of version 0.7.10 (20090420). ¬†Don’t try to select items with the mouse, because it will crash the program. ![]() ¬†Various toolbars can be opened by selecting View and then using the arrow keys to move around the menus. ¬†Major functions, like opening and publishing files, adding anchors and links, and saving files are in a tool bar at the top. The application has all the basics needed to build a Web page from scratch or to edit existing pages.įigure 1 shows the Kompozer graphical interface. Kompozer can be installed in Ubuntu using either the Synaptic package manager or apt-get. ¬†Let’s have a look, shall we? Features and Benefits ![]() Kompozer strikes a good balance with a nice user interface, clean tagging, and built-in publishing features. ¬†For any kind of interesting look and feel, you’ll need to have intimate knowledge of HTML coding, with that one. ¬†Other applications are geared toward twiddling every single tag, like Bluefish. ¬†Some programs are very easy to use, like, but produce horrendously complicated HTML files. I’ve used various Open Source programs and techniques over the years with varying degrees of success. The entire thing is chock full of all the things one expects from a WYSIWYG editor, and as such for someone like Rukbat or myself to even want to bother to try and help you, we'd have to throw that entire mess of code away and start over from scratch - it would be faster than to try and do anything with the decade and a half out of date methodology and nonsensical code that editor saddled you with.As a technology writer, I frequently have to build quick, easily maintained Web-type documents for client jobs or my personal Web sites. Nope, he guessed EXACTLY what you are referring to - as the link to your page confirmed. Anyone telling you otherwise is packing you so full of sand you could change your name to Sahara. The code doesn't even make sense having multiple HEAD, multiple TITLE, massive tables with even more massive STYLE attributes for christmas only knows what - it's a laundry list of how not to build a website - and ENTIRELY what one can expect from Kompozer.Įditors like Kompozer, Frontpage, the preview pane in Dreamweaver, etc, etc, are NOT how you build a website - they amount to nothing more than nube predation and broken methodologies. Hence your 11k of markup to deploy 336 bytes of actual content and two inputs. Since you have tables for no good reason, presentation inlined in the markup, nothing remotely resembling semantics, and the whole other host of things that basically throw accessibility out the window. The entire thing is chock full of all the things one expects from a WYSIWYG editor, and as such for someone like Rukbat or myself to even want to bother to try and help you, we'd have to throw that entire mess of code away and start over from scratch - it would be faster than to try and do anything with the decade and a half out of date methodology and nonsensical code that editor saddled you with. ![]() Click to expand.Nope, he guessed EXACTLY what you are referring to - as the link to your page confirmed. ![]()
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