CSS/HTML Tutoring lesson

[John]

I actually spent some time in a tutoring lesson with someone tonight. I
am gonna get some books on CSS/HTML
soon. But I figured out some new tricks.

First BlueGriffon for Mac is lacking an ability to edit/create CSS so I
used SimpleCSS/Kompozer and got a real CSS file I will be employing to
all my documents from this day forward.

h1 {
color: #0000ff;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: bolder;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
h2 {
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 1.6em;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bolder;
}
body {
border-style: none;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: Arial;
}

I am not sure what I am gonna do with the 80 or so documents on my
website that were created in MS-Word/ Claris Home Page as darn Word has
internal CSS garbage and would be hard to fix, The good news is that
MOST of the files on my site were not created in Word and have no CSS,
so that means I can apply my new CSS file to those documents and get a
standard font and size.


John
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[dorayme]

In article <jwolf6589-143E1...@nntp.charter.net>,

John <jwol...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> I actually spent some time in a tutoring lesson with someone tonight. I
> am gonna get some books on CSS/HTML
> soon. But I figured out some new tricks.
>

...

> I am not sure what I am gonna do with the 80 or so documents on my
> website that were created in MS-Word/ Claris Home Page as darn Word has
> internal CSS garbage and would be hard to fix, The good news is that
> MOST of the files on my site were not created in Word and have no CSS,
> so that means I can apply my new CSS file to those documents and get a
> standard font and size.
>
>

You will know what to do when you learn the basics about HTML, you
have 80 or so docs to practise on.

--
dorayme

[tlvp]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:56:10 +1100, dorayme wrote:

> You will know what to do when you learn the basics about HTML, you
> have 80 or so docs to practise on.

Alas, I face the same chastening experience, having developed several
self-page-turning books a decade ago, each of whose pages is an HTML-fiasco
in need of major repair. I've gotten real good at putting that task off:-).

Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

[dorayme]

In article <sq1lugwp730v.6...@40tude.net>,

tlvp <mPiOsUcB...@att.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:56:10 +1100, dorayme wrote:
>
> > You will know what to do when you learn the basics about HTML, you
> > have 80 or so docs to practise on.
>
> Alas, I face the same chastening experience, having developed several
> self-page-turning books a decade ago, each of whose pages is an HTML-fiasco
> in need of major repair. I've gotten real good at putting that task off:-).

Encouraged no doubt by JK always warning against messing with old HTML
docs... The thing is, if you have some pages you like as displayed in
browsers and you want to learn about HTM/CSS, and you have the
capacity to learn, surely only good can come of it...

--
dorayme

[Warren Oates]

In article <jwolf6589-143E1...@nntp.charter.net>,
John <jwol...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what I am gonna do with the 80 or so documents on my
> website that were created in MS-Word/ Claris Home Page as darn Word has
> internal CSS garbage and would be hard to fix, The good news is that
> MOST of the files on my site were not created in Word and have no CSS,
> so that means I can apply my new CSS file to those documents and get a
> standard font and size.

There are tools that will "strip" the HTML tags from your content,
leaving only your text. Which you can then reformat in the new, simpler,
more precise way that you have learned, Grasshopper.

I'm not suggesting that you use this site, of course, but it will show
you how such things work:
http://www.zubrag.com/tools/html-tags-stripper.php

This is how he's doing it:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

I haven't seen _his_ PHP, but it's a fairly straightforward script
(although, I pretty good at PHP). You can probably achieve the same
thing in Javascript.
--

Soulless fruitflies are the nanotechnology of the fear industry -- Bucky

[dorayme]

In article <5146ff41$0$39065$c3e8da3$dbd...@news.astraweb.com>,

Warren Oates <warren...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are tools that will "strip" the HTML tags from your content,

> leaving only your text. ...

> I'm not suggesting that you use this site, of course, but it will show
> you how such things work:
> http://www.zubrag.com/tools/html-tags-stripper.php

Yes, that's easier than copy/paste and/or GREP replacement for total
wipeout and re html/css.

The reality is that mostly with an established site, ones not totally
hopeless and incompetent, you are likely only wanting to change a few
things to establish it on a surer footing, even to transform its
presentation.

--
dorayme

[tlvp]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:15:15 +1100, dorayme wrote, anent my many:

>> ... pages ... in need of major repair ...

>
> ... The thing is, if you have some pages you like as displayed in
> browsers and you want to learn about HTM/CSS, and you have the
> capacity to learn, surely only good can come of it...

Of course, dorayme, nothing but good. That's why I made public confession
of my dilatory sins: hoping to add to the pressure on me to get cracking on
repairing those old pages. Will it work? Stay tuned. Cheers, -- tlvp

[tlvp]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:12:56 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

> You could just put them in the poubelle.

Smile when you say that, pardner, knowing not whereof you speak :-) .