More Info:
These HTML editing and design-assistant tools are in the form of web pages which you can access online. There is nothing to download and nothing to install on your computer. If you try these out, and your work results in some useful HTML that you want to save, you are advised to use the copy, cut and paste editing facilities available, with a program such as Notepad (if using an Internet cafe, make sure the floppy drive, or memory stick works, or email your work to yourself). Those with little knowledge of HTML should find enough guidance in use of these tools to enable creation of web documents for presentable online information, while those programmers who often edit HTML, may find the uncomplicated HTML code useful when building PHP programs.
List of tools:
- Remove excess font tags (this page only generates a pop-up window to save your work).
- Change tags to lowercase
- Check basics of HTML
- Insert text without squinting
- Counts and tips
- Make a HTML page (using copy and paste keyboard techniques).
- Document types advice
- Gradient Color maker (with hexadecimal converter).
- Colors tester palette (shows color codes, and tests contrast).
- Color matching tester (try out your color scheme on a sample page).
- URLs into Anchors (have a list of prepared URLs handy).
- Sequential Text Copy maker (format with tags, ready to insert... also: Events Copy maker, and Definition List maker).
Some answers to likely 'FAQs':
- Some people who will find this useful:
- The type of person who will find these tools useful is someone who already knows the basics of HTML, or who has read up in the local library, but who sometimes has problems with complicated code. The more advanced web designer can also have problems when pages get complicated, due to much editing and some important tag has inadvertently been deleted. Those away from home can use the tools online from any computer. Useful also for PHP coders, who want to make a HTML coded page quickly.
- What you find when you click "Buy Now":
- If you wish to pay for one session, you are routed to a payments page, where you are asked to pay $2 to Martin J. Marsh (currency rates are automatically converted). You pay by credit card, or via your Paypal account, if you have one. As soon as payment is accepted, you will be immediately returned to the HTML web tools pages. Leaving the HTML web tools pages ends the session, but those in need of a regular editing sessions can telephone Ecomarsho.
- Machine-generated HTML code programs available:
- There exist many free programs that come with a magazine on a CD or DVD - so many that there is no point in listing them. Using one of the tools here, you can make a web page from HTML code tags, which you later save as a file for adding to your website or for viewing in your web browser.
- Programs used at home giving different code:
- If you have an old program, it will probably give you HTML code written in block capitals, which is perfectly OK, but the move to modernise suggests using lowercase, and not using some old type tags. If you edit HTML for emails, you will probably find Microsoft still using FONT tags.
- The extent to which design sense is necessary:
- There are problems of a very basic nature which web-designers often encounter, and one is that of knowing how color schemes will work when displayed on a web page. Using CSS styles it is possible to decide on positioning of items on a web page more exactly, and to have an overall view of which styles apply where.
- Flash websites that pop up everywhere:
- This is not offering Flash facilities, but many good effects can be achieved with animated GIFs and suitable scripts. These tools do not provide images for your site, and the scripts that make them work are copyright, not available for display on any other website. More free knowledge is available from books or via online links.