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ZLTFUL · February 11, 2009, 08:16:48 AM

Can anyone recommend a good free HTML editor? Apparently, FrontPage is no longer included in the Office Enterprise edition and I need to create a few htm files for interoffice use...

TIA

JEFF_H · February 11, 2009, 09:18:35 AM

this one is free and has been around a long time-
http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor/

ZLTFUL · February 11, 2009, 09:59:52 AM

actually I found a great one...Notepad. Then I just save my document with an htm extension. Plus I realized I have Contributor as part of my Adobe CS4 Master Collection install...yeah...I use CS4 alot...not really. Heheh.

Only problem I am having now is the web page I have my document pointed to won't load. But when I point the desktop background to the web page directly, it does...

Here is the string I am using...

<html>

<head>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="60">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#0066CC">





Welcome To Doll Distributing Des Moines



 

<img src="http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=DMX&lat=41.60760117&lon=-93.59697723&label=Des+Moines%2C+IA&type=N0R&zoommode=pan&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&prevzoom=zoom&num=6&delay=15&scale=0.75&showlabels=1&smooth=1&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&remembersettings=on&setprefs.0.key=RADNUM&setprefs.0.val=6&setprefs.1.key=RADSPD&setprefs.1.val=15&setprefs.2.key=RADC&setprefs.2.val=0&setprefs.3.key=RADSTM&setprefs.3.val=0&setprefs.4.key=SLABS&setprefs.4.val=1&setprefs.5.key=RADRMS&setprefs.5.val=0&setprefs.6.key=RADLIT&setprefs.6.val=0&setprefs.7.key=RADSMO&setprefs.7.val=1">



</body>

</html>

Slide Panda · February 11, 2009, 10:35:45 AM

Well, you img tag is all tore up. You seem to be pointing to a page, not an image. YOu can't just load some other page into yours with an image tag. Are you thinking of an iframe tag?

Also, you've got styling elements in there that are oooold, and that tag doesn't go so well anymore...

For editors... Dreamweaver is free for 30 days. If you're on a Mac - Snag Coda. It's free of 15 days, but pretty cheap to buy and it's nice

ducducgooseme · February 11, 2009, 10:35:56 AM

I use a combo of Adobe Dreamweaver and Eclipse.

the_Journeyman · February 11, 2009, 11:19:28 AM

Dreamweaver is nice, but not free ~

JM

ZLTFUL · February 11, 2009, 11:30:08 AM

Well...I am not actually trying to create a page. I am trying to create a htm document that has a header (our company name) and then the majority of the middle portion is occupied with a 60 second refreshing frame of the most recent local radar loop.

As I said, I can just point XP's web active desktop to the web page and it works fine. When I point the "image source" to the url of the web page that is a recent local radar loop it just gives me the red X...

Slide Panda · February 11, 2009, 11:37:14 AM

Try <img src="http://radblast-mi.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=DMX&brand=wui&num=6&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=0.750&noclutter=0&t=1234380752&lat=41.60760117&lon=-93.59697723&label=Des+Moines%2C+IA&showstorms=0&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=1">

Not sure if taht will get you the constant updates you need - but it should since they dynamically create the image.

And you are getting the red X w/ your original code because you are tyring to point an image tag at a fully formed HMTL page, not just the image.

DesmoDiva · February 11, 2009, 11:49:41 AM

Quote from: the_Journeyman on February 11, 2009, 11:19:28 AM
Dreamweaver is nice, but not free ~

JM

Nope, but I believe I left it on Carrie's laptop.

the_Journeyman · February 11, 2009, 12:07:27 PM

Nice! Thanks, that's a great program

JM

mitt · February 11, 2009, 12:22:20 PM

Ryan,

I think you forgot the / at the end of the img tag.

example from w3schools <img src="angry.gif" alt="Angry face" />

mitt

this works for me-

<html>

<head>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="60">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#0066CC">





Welcome To Doll Distributing Des Moines



 

<img src="http://radblast-mi.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=DMX&brand=wui&num=6&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=0.750&noclutter=0&t=1234383502&lat=41.60760117&lon=-93.59697723&label=Des+Moines%2C+IA&showstorms=0&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=1"/>



</body>

</html>

ZLTFUL · February 11, 2009, 12:34:45 PM

Thanks Mitt...I actually found a stripped down url from their website after digging deeply into their site map that shortens the URL WAY down and it worked. Added the / andeven better. Going to push the refresh out to like 5 minutes though. Their radar feed is on a 10 minute refresh.

Now to figure out how to resize the radar picture to consume more of the page...

Slide Panda · February 11, 2009, 12:38:24 PM

Mitt, he didn't - you're going into XHTML spec// he's stuff is a bit older school. If he wants to use self cosing tags he need to hit that also, and ditch <font... the align="center" in his p tag and such - in lieu of CSS

ZLTFUL · February 11, 2009, 12:43:27 PM

OK...so I figured out part of the problem...I was trying to use ASP web pages. Won' work. When I go to any CGI scripted page, it works fine. Now I just need to find a large format nearly full screen radar loop in CGI...

Hehe.

mitt · February 11, 2009, 12:46:39 PM

Quote from: yuu on February 11, 2009, 12:38:24 PM
Mitt, he didn't - you're going into XHTML spec// he's stuff is a bit older school. If he wants to use self cosing tags he need to hit that also, and ditch <font... the align="center" in his p tag and such - in lieu of CSS

Weird, I copied his html locally and tried loading it, and it didn't work, so then I added the / in the img tag and then it worked, so I thought it was that, but now I take the / out and it still works???

Also, to the original post, for a free html editor, I found Nvu a couple weeks ago, but I have not tried it yet.

It is supposed to be a html editor plus site manager kind of like front page. Maybe a dmfer has some FHE?

http://www.download.com/Nvu/3000-10247_4-10412423.html

mitt

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