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Web Culture

M-Soft.RU’s WYSIWYG

by abet on August 18, 2007

JustHTML is M-Soft.RU’s WYSIWYG editor. It was intended for those who wish to create their own website but do not know how to. It runs on Microsoft’s .NET Framework 2.0 and is currently on its version 2.0. The author announces that with this version he has made image insertion better.
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More Old Apps: RemotePad

by abet on August 13, 2007

This is RemotePad from HamsterRepublic. It is a NotePad cum FTP. Like Notepad the FTP is stripped to the bare essentials. It is an old application that I found lying around in my old hard drive. It still works.

The nice thing about it is that it loads fast and connects quickly. [...]

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Layout Design with CSS and Other Updates

by abet on August 9, 2007

UPDATEI found a Screen Caliper tool from Iconico. It isn’t free though.

About the demo page not being tested in Opera… Well some guys at the 110MB forum answered to my call for help. They have posted screenshots of the demo page. One can find them here. Looks [...]

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Lutus On Freeware

by abet on August 8, 2007

Paul Lutus, the father of Careware and the author of Arachnophilia – probably the best HTML editor while it was still a Windows application — writes about freeware in his website:

The Internet was originally a forum for computer professionals and academics who understood the nature of the medium, many of whom played a part in [...]

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Any CSS Experts Around?

by abet on August 4, 2007

I am preparing another tutorial on CSS by reworking on an earlier one on using tables for layout. I have created the page below using CSS

My problem however is that
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Working With CSS

by abet on August 3, 2007

Layout Your Webpage With CSS is the latest offering of the Collectanea. It is a tutorial that builds on an earlier one on using tables for layouts. With HTML 4.0, tables for layouts has become a “No-No”. CSS is the current standard and so I will be writing more about this in [...]

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Customizing Templates

by abet on July 30, 2007

I have updated the new Collectanea with a tutorial on customizing the templates/layouts one can find on the web. I started with something that is wholly CSS-based from Spyka.NET. The tutorial can be found here. It is heavy with graphics but I hope that they are small enough to load quick in [...]

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NotePad 2 Looks Great!

by abet on July 25, 2007

Florian Balmer’s Notepad 2 (Flo’s Freeware), one of the better Notepad Replacements is now in version 2.0.17 and it is beginning to look like a certain commercial text editor I know. Below is a screenshot of Notepad 2. Click on the thumbnail for a bigger look

The elegant features don’t detract from its [...]

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Using yGen To Generate Webpages

by abet on July 25, 2007

yGen is an application that makes the creation of several webpages with the same look and feel automatic. It works on code snippets (written as INC files) and the content pages (saved as TEMPLATE files) and generates them on the fly.
I created the Collectanea resources of this website using yGen and I believe [...]

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If you are writing for the web, or would like to have your long article posted in a website, write it first in an ASCII editor like Notepad, not in a software like MS Word or WordPad. If you are not writing for the web, then make use of those last two named word [...]

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Another Notepad Replacement

by abet on May 11, 2007

If you have read the article about Text Editors then this update is for you. I have recently discovered RJ TextEdit, a notepad replacement that does more than take notes. It is actually a full-blown HTML editor that allows one to see the webpage being created through two browsers, FireFox and Internet Explorer. [...]

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The Best Notepad Replacement

by abet on November 10, 2006

Is there such a thing as "the best" NotePad replacement?  If there is, what does it look like?
One of the things that intrigue me is the great variety of text editing software that are advertised as "NotePad replacements."  NotePad is the native Windows text editor: it loads fast, it is elegantly simple, but it has [...]

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How Do You Get Around The Web?

by abet on October 15, 2006

"How do you get around on the web?"
The question came from one who had just started to get to know the web. And it is a good question considering that going through the rest of the web through a webpage is no longer as simple as when the web was still young.
I remember the [...]

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What’s A Link?

by abet on October 13, 2006

What’s a link and why do I have to include it in a webpage?
 What we call a link is an item on a webpage  that when clicked brings the surfer to another webpage or to another location within the same webpage.  Technically, it is what you would call a hyperlink.  It is easy to understand [...]

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What’s A Link?

by abet on October 13, 2006

What’s a link and why do I have to include it in a webpage?
 What we call a link is an item on a webpage  that when clicked brings the surfer to another webpage or to another location within the same webpage.  Technically, it is what you would call a hyperlink.  It is easy to understand [...]

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