Working On It! » Site News http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog many are the things that you would like and need to know... Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:19:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 PlainHTML 7 http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2009/08/15/plainhtml-7/ http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2009/08/15/plainhtml-7/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:12:41 +0000 abet http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2009/08/15/plainhtml-7/ I almost got used to version 5 of Beerwin’s Plain HTML. With the current beta version of PlainHTML 7, it isn’t so “plain” anymore. It is no longer just a hardcoder’s HTML editor. Right now, it has surpassed a lot of free HTML editors available on the web today. To be specific: PlainHTML 7 now has a WYSIWYG feature that puts it above a lot of commercial and free WebDesign Suites.

A Screenshot

Shown above is a screenshot of PlainHTML 7.0 in Designer Mode (WYSIWYG) and connected to an FTP server.  Add to this the different external tools that Beerwin ships with this IDE and what do you get?  A complete web workshop!

Below is a screenshot of PlainHTML 7.0 in Code Editor mode. Apart from the Toolbars that one sees also in top rated HTML editors, there are three features that I really like: the Tag Inspector, TIDY, and the Clipbook.

Another Screenshot

Notice that unlike other WYSIWYG editors available on the web now, PlainHTML 7 maintains an HTML code that is nice to look at and consistent with the default “XHTML 1.0 Strict” DocType it creates for each page you create. Now that is a great plus if one would like to have one’s pages validated by the Consortium.

]]> http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2009/08/15/plainhtml-7/feed/ 0 BeerWin and Other Things http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/11/30/beerwin-and-other-things/ http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/11/30/beerwin-and-other-things/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:46:39 +0000 abet http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/11/30/beerwin-and-other-things/ I know, I know.  I’ve left this blog unattended for quite a while.  Truth is, I’ve been working on other websites that I consider more demanding because of the nature of their contents.  I have to post something to The Bible Workshop and Your Daily Inspiration because these are the sites that people refer to for work in the Church.  Not that webmastering does not hold any importance when ranged against church ministry.  On the contrary, it is also ministry and the kind that is behind those two sites mentioned.  However, on topics that directly pertain to the work of webmastering — like HTML, web design, techie stuff — there are others offering better content than I do.

Working on Scriptures has not drawn me away entirely from the web-things I’ve been monitoring.  Beerwin for example has released WebSuite 2.0.  He announced earlier that it would be ready by Christmas, but the guy has anticipated his scheduled release by a number of days.  And man, I tell you the work is beautiful, and the screenshot below does no justice to it.

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BeerWin’s Websuite 2.0 is your All-In-One web design software.  It has PlainHTML6, CSnipper,Auto-Backup and MultiNotepad with a host of other applications (like a CSV viewer and a File Viewer) that anyone who manually designs webpages would appreciate.  One added application I was not expecting was the File Viewer.  I already have the free Universal Viewer from UVViewSoft and have been using it quite extensively.  BeerWin’s addition of the File Viewer in WebSuite 2.0 makes it easier for me to survey and organize my work environment.

PlainHTML is simply wonderful.  I use it for formatting my webpages before copying and pasting them into the WordPress blogs I employ in my sites.   The control panel is simply a smorgasbord of features designed to help the web designer with his work.

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It will probably take me awhile to try out the features of the new WebSuite 2.0.  Give me some time to work through it and perhaps I’ll have something decent to say about it.  For the moment, I am working with PlainHTML for those articles I have to produce for my students.

GGo to BeerWin for WebSuite 2.0

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Like Wordpress, it installs very easily and with the proper directory chmoded to world-writable, one can be blogging in no time.  Unlike Wordpress, however, it doesn’t have a big and active theme developers’ community.  The same goes with its plugins.  Despite these limitations however, I think that FlatPress is going to have a future.  There are a lot of free PHP hosts, but not many that offer MySQL too.  So blog applications like FlatPress will always have its market.

]]> http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/10/05/flatpress-at-the-old-tipzntrix/feed/ 0 TipzNTrix Articles Transferred http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/01/24/tipzntrix-articles-transferred/ http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2008/01/24/tipzntrix-articles-transferred/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:52:07 +0000 abet http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/?p=50 FreeMySql turned out to be a bad idea after all. I put up the content management system of TipzNTrix thinking that the MySQL databases that FreeMySQL provides will hold for some time before I could transfer my data to a more secure host. Thing is, FreeMySQL underwent an upgrade in its facilities and in the process I lost my database. As a result, the articles at TipzNTrix has begun to point to a WordPress Error page about a database that cannot be selected (because suddenly non-existent). This happened in November last year and I thought that after informing the Administrator of FreeMySQL is about it would be enough. So I waited for them to work on the problem. But three months have passed and still the Error page keeps appearing. So I have taken the matter into my own hands. Fortunate for me, 110MB upgraded my account and given me extra databases and webspace. So I have transferred the articles’ section of TipzNTrix to a section within the Collectanea. There you will find the articles that were formerly posted at the TipzNTrix blog. Later, I will redo the old TipzNTrix so that it will no longer point to error pages.

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I recently received two emails from people who have been visiting this site.  One asks for a kind of “Putting It All Together” page that shows how what I have been saying in the HTML tutorials turn out in practice.  The other is a question about WYSIWYGs.

To the first, my reply is a demo website at TipzNTrix. I made that demo website for three reasons:

  1. to show that it is still possible to manually create great looking websites;
  2. to serve as an illustrative guide for the free services that the web offers for people who either don’t want a CMS-powered site or who at the moment can’t afford one or who have a CMS-powered site but still find the necessity of creating their own webpages; and
  3. to serve as a “context” for the HTML and Javascript tips I will be offering here.

Read more about it here.

The other one is more basic.  He asks:  ”If we have to learn HTML, why are there so many WYSIWYGs available?” The question assumes that WYSIWYGs make HTML unnecessary.  I make my reply here.

]]> http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/28/two-new-pages/feed/ 0 TipzNTrix http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/04/tipzntrix/ http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/04/tipzntrix/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:18:27 +0000 abet http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/?p=43 I have set up an extension site for the Collectanea. It is also hosted here at 110MB.Com. It is in a free server that is PHP-powered but not MySQL enabled. 110MB gives its freebies the allowance of three accounts so I took advantage of it. So what am I going to use the other webspace for? Another collection of webpages that I rediscovered while I was going through my old CD’s the other day. Some of those materials are no longer available on the web today either because the website where they were formerly hosted have closed down or because I deleted them myself at a time when I needed room in a cramped webspace.

Here is how I describe TipzNTrix

I intend this site to be an extension of the Collectanea Informatica [http://collinform.uni.cc]. Apart from the basic HTML tutorials that I publish there, I also have materials that I’ve collected through my years in the Internet that are no longer available now. These are mostly javscript codes that I’ve used for the websites I created in the past and articles on different softwares that once were published in free hosting sites that have closed down. Since the materials at the Collectanea are straight HTML tutorials, I have decided to keep these collection in another webspace — this one — dedicated to HTML enhancements and Web Kultur.

I am recoding the pages so that these can fit into the theme-layout of TipzNTrix. I saw the theme at the WordPress Themes repository and customized it to work as an HTML layout. Perhaps the first pages will be available in two or three days. I will be posting them on the WordPress blog I have there when possible.

]]> http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/04/tipzntrix/feed/ 0 Page Tools and New Gadget http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/01/page-tools-and-new-gadget/ http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/2007/09/01/page-tools-and-new-gadget/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:41:33 +0000 abet http://alesmeralda.110mb.com/blog/?p=42 I’ve done a few modifications on the index page of the new articles section. I used the DynamicDrive Ajax Tabbed Content script to make the index page look “lighter.” Together with this modification, I also added a Page Tools section which currently features the Exerciser, a BBCode Converter and the StyleSwitcher script I write about here.

The Exerciser has been here for quite some time now. I even blog about it here somewhere. The BBCode Converter was intended chiefly to be a tool I use for converting HTML stuff into something I can post at the 110MB forum. But since it is here anyway, why not share it with others who may have need of it?:)

I hope these new changes would make the new articles’ section look a lot better. Visit it here.

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