Re: hand-coding vrs WYSWYG

John,
I use snippets all the time!  I find that the <span style=> tags are
sometimes easier to use than CSS's and have a ton of snippets stored to
facilitate this.  GO HOMESITE :-)
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From: "John Allred" <allred(at)its.state.ms.us>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: hand-coding vrs WYSWYG


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> > Everyone keeps talking like they think handcoding is slower than
> > anything else, but to me it isn't.  I type the HTML tags in as fast as I
> > type anything else.  I make my style sheets manually too and then it is
> > just the style sheet that needs the main tweaking for layout.
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> A couple of people further back mentioned that they thought HomeSite was
in
> some way difficult. I wouldn't suggest it has good WYSIWYG support. But,
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> you're more on the code-oriented side, I would suggest that it's both easy
> and powerful and extremely customizable. I'd be interested to hear of
other
> programs that provide this neat feature:
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> With HomeSite, I can store code snippets with a project. This allows me to
> hand code a page that relies on lots of CSS classes and not have to type
> them in. I can double-click on a snippet and insert my own tag -- for
> instance, <p class="blue"></p> with the cursor placed to begin typing. I
> can also highlight some existing text, double click the snippet and
thereby
> surround the text with the beginning and ending tags, with all the
> parameters in place. No typing. Of course, this applies to any sort of
text
> that I type frequently, not just CSS.
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> Any other editors use snippets this way? Just curious.
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> --John
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