need help with learning HTML

[Asamin]

Can ne1 send me to a desent site that would teach me to write html on a mac with Microsoft Word??
I search but never find any sites that tell me.

[Shining Knights]

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

[WetWired]

You don't write HTML with word. You write HTML with notepad.

[!King_Amazon!]

You don't write HTML with word. You write HTML with notepad.

[Demosthenes]

Yea, you want it to be pure text. Word documents generally fluff that up.

[gruesomeBODY]

Microsoft access is all about writing in html i think. I cant remember at the moment

[!King_Amazon!]

Microsoft access is a database program.

[Lenny]

Frontpage is the Web Design program... and it's not the best in the world.

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

Try that. Free, supposedly quite good, and it works on a Mac. What more could you ask for?

[Demosthenes]

Yea, FrontPage is the one Microsoft provides. Never tried NVU. I used to use AOLPress WAY back in the day, but I don't think that's been updated in a long time so it's probably pretty out of date.

Lenny, you a Mac user? I'm curious, what do you like about Mac over PC? Sorry if I'm coming across like I'm going to be critical or argumentative, that's not my intent, I'm genuinely curious.

Although, I suppose this thread isn't the place for it, so I'll make another one.

[Atnas]

Asamin uses a Mac.

[Lenny]

EDIT: Will copy and paste this into MJs thread.

[!King_Amazon!]

I use a mac occasionally at work. It runs very nice, looks very sleak, but it takes a lot of getting used to and can be quite frustrating sometimes.

[Lenny]

I like the look of the Mac monitors (not Laptops), but that's about it.

The keyboard annoys me, the mouse annoys me, and the towers (or at least all the ones I've seen) are pretty ugly.

[Asamin]

All i have is a figgen mac!!!! The thing in word is a part that alows you to make a web site!!! you can make it in html and need something that will teach me how to write it!! Please just give me that info!!

[Demosthenes]

I used to be the same way about Windows, although I was a Linux advocate instead of a Mac advocate. Now, though, I realize that Windows for the common person is as good, if not better than Linux. When I say common person, I don't mean by intelligence, I mean common in terms of usage. Yea, if you want a server I'd go Linux, but for a desktop even I use Windows XP now days. Of course, I started using Linux back in the 98 days which was a terrible OS in my opinion.

[!King_Amazon!]

Asamin uses a Mac.
I think that was obvious enough judging by the original post.

[gruesomeBODY]

Microsoft access is a database program.
My bad i meant frontpage

[Asamin]

How does it work??? The Nvu i mean that Lenny was talking about.

[Lenny]

Once you've installed it:

http://nvu.com/websitehelp.php

Skip straight to stage 3.

[Mantralord]

instead of learning html why don't you install some GAMES on your crapple OS

[Asamin]

Because i would rather spend my time stuffing my head with usless wayes to make web sites that I will never make than rot my brains out!!!!
By the way Lenny, that program runs beautifuly!!! It is awsome and (awsomly) doesn't finish the tags for you!!:)

[Lenny]

Can't say I've ever tried it, to be honest. :p

I was thinking of downloading and using it before I got Dreamweaver, but never did. Glad you like it. :)

[Atnas]

I think that was obvious enough judging by the original post.

In case Mj thought from...

Free, supposedly quite good, and it works on a Mac. What more could you ask for?
That Lenny used a mac himself.

Only because there was a thread entitled "A question for Lenny".

[Asamin]

Dreamweaver sucks!!!
Every time you try to start a tag the stupid friggen menu pops up with a lis of comands!! Than it finishes the tag for you so you have to move around the end befor you can start a new tab. It's so annoying!

[Lenny]

Haha. I find that quite nice, to be honest. :p I know, I'm lazy... but I only use the menu that pops up when I'm setting IDs or classes to link things to my CSS.

[Asamin]

It just anouys me and i wish there was a way to make it go away.
By the way, congrats on the sup mod!

[Lenny]

Thanks. :)

I'm just looking through the Dreamweaver options now, and it looks to me like you can turn things off. Under preferences, Code Hints looks the most likely - things such as turning off the automatic closing of tags, and code hints.

[Asamin]

Nice! I bet my comp teacher will yell at me for doing that but o well. She yells at me for making the web site in HTML that i'm suposed to follow some directions for!!

[Lenny]

Computing teachers, what can you say?

Mine just tell us to get on with our programming. :p

Preferences in DW is under Edit, if you didn't know. Always trips me up, that - I expect Preferences and Options to be under Tools or Options, not under Edit.

[Asamin]

LOL that really strange!
By the way... she yelled at me:p

[Lenny]

Haha! Great stuff. :p

Were you able to turn the annoying things off?

[Asamin]

yes. I did it in the library at my school. Now my life is better.
I have now started siriosly writing html and when i went to inser javascript it didn't work.
This is what i typed and can ne1 tell me what is rong here??
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script src="functions.js" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function printDate() {document.write("today's date is: " +Date());}
//-->
</script>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title>dsfasdfadfs</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome!</h1>
<p>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function printDate()
//-->
</script></p>
</body>
</html>