For a long time I just did inline styles. That gave me a chance to play with style tags and see what happened in a very localized way. If that one line didn't work in the browser I knew that it was that tag. It was quite a while before I tried an external style sheet. On 07/13/2015 07:42 AM, Linda Haas Davenport wrote: > The latest version of NoteTab Pro will generate both CSS2 & CSS3 code, > but you know if you haven't a clue as to what is needed where and what > it's going to do it's not a lot of help <g> > > Linda > > Linda Haas Davenport > my Home Page: http://www.lhaasdav.com > My Marion Co AR page: http://www.argenweb.net/marion/ > my Tulsa OK Page: http://www.tulsaokhistory.com > -----Original Message----- From: Billie Walsh via > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Where does #content go in an html page? > > My first website was generated by GED2HTML from a gedcom generated by > Brothers Keeper. [ page is still up, much modified over the years ] > Somewhere I had found an HTML "dictionary. I think there were only > something like twenty-five or thirty tags back then. All pretty simple. > I printed off the "dictionary" and put it in a binder that I could refer > to it. I used Notepad as an editor at first. By looking at the HTML > generated and referring to the dictionary I learned how web pages worked > and was able to modify those pages to suit myself. It wasn't to long > before I found my first HTML editor, HTMLed. That was great because it > had the tags on "buttons" so I could click and insert tags without > typing. I still had to manually ad any modifiers I wanted [ height, > width, etc. ] The dictionary listed what modifiers were available for > each tag. > > I'm not sure there was a WYSIWYG editor in those early days. I never had > one. It was kind of learn HTML or else. Styles have been harder for me > because I never found a simple "dictionary" like I had for HTML. I did > find a program for Linux, sorry it doesn't work in Windows - I tried, > called CSSed. It's a very simple CSS editor with click and add tags. It > will offer modifiers if any are available [ settings for padding for > instance ]. Problem is it's a bit behind the latest and greatest style > elements. I don't think it will be updated in the future. Still it did > help me learn some of the syntax. > > OK, that's my long and sad story. I believe that as i have grown older > it has helped me to keep learning new things. It's funny that since I > have been "retired" I seldom know what day it is. Just last evening we > were driving past a local Baptist church and I wondered, out loud, what > was going on on a Friday. Tracie quickly let me know it was Sunday, and > won't let me forget my faux pas. I told her it was senility and I was > sticking to that story. Don't know what day of the week it is but I can > write a web page from scratch. *<]:oD > > > -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._