On Friday 16 July 2004 01:49 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:36:43 -0000, Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@...>
> wrote:
> >> Tom, I'm still using an old laser printer fusing unit, as my
> >> laminator, and I get very consistent and repetable results every time.
> > I have an old laser printer that could be sacrificed for this, but I
> > have not seen anybody do any type of write-up on how to do it.
I have one here too, AAMOF.
> > Is there something I missed on how to convert an hold HP-II to a PCB
> > fuser/toner transfer ?
> >
> > Dave
> ya rip out the fuser unit, force me to finally write up the simple
> thermostat guide, and figure out the mechanical drive and perhaps roller
> adjustment yourself.
>
> ready to go.
>
> How do you guys make webpages?
With a text editor.
> I speak HTML but i'd like to cut corners.
> I need and want no fancy stuff, plain, even frameless html is wanted.
Works for me!
> saving as html out of a word procssor creats junk code, i do not like that.
A "word processor" is a tool for working with "documents". What you want is a
text editor.
> Is there a simple editor that allows me to enter the text, and easily place
> headlines and pictures, maybe inserting a simple table here and there?
Yes, there is no doubt in my mind of this.
> It MUST produce clean code.
It won't produce ANY code, that is up to you!
> I know it is OT but some of you have pages and surely know how to do it
> efficiently.
> In the end it benefits PCB_making.
You don't say what platform you're running. I am pretty near all linux here,
and currently in the KDE GUI, but for stuff like that I go to a text-based
console. I use a utility called mc, which stands for "Midnight
Commander" (supposed to be a Norton Commander clone, but I can't speak to
that as I've never used NC). In that is the ability to press F4 while on a
filename somewhere in your stuff, and it pops the file up in an editor.
I think this is likely available for a number of different platforms, try a
search for it.
Get yourself a couple of books on basic HTML stuff.
Try to remember that many people won't have the same screen resolution that
you are running (whatever that is), and create pages that allow for this --
that sort of flexibility is one of the best things about HTML, which many m$
tools choose to ignore with such nonsense as absolute pixel-specified font
sizes and item positioning and similar crap.
Look at some pages that are out there that you like the look of with the "view
source" option of your browser, or better yet save some of them and try
different things, see what the effect is.
If you want to include images png files seem to load faster than either gif or
jpg here. Keep the number of colors down and the size of the image, giving
a link to a bigger copy in case someone wants it, otherwise pages take WAY
too long to load.
Feel free to contact me off-list if you have any questions about any of this
stuff. I started trying to organize my textual information here by putting
piles of stuff into different directories. Then I started seeing a bunch of
documentation that was coming with software and it was in HTML format. So I
started a local "tree" that I'm using to organize this stuff. As some of
what's out there is here now, gone later, I tend to save it on HD and plug
it in to the tree. Right now there are several thousand files in that pile,
and it continues to grow all the time. I'm fairly well organized when I get
stuff over there, but my main problem right now is that I have more info to
put in there and never enough time to do it. :-)