Proof of Astrology?

[tamaranth]

Find me a horoscope for Libra that says today is a bad day for communication, and I'll .. well, there wouldn't be a lot of point me spreading the word, would there? Not today.


1. Plymouth Social Services (on whom I finally gave up in disgust after 30 minutes on hold) fail to recognise a problem with their crossing out my figures and putting in their own.
"Well, we corrected them."
"If you know the correct values, and I don't, why are you asking me? Can't you just fill in the form on my father's behalf?"
"It's up to you to provide the figures."
"I did. You changed them."
"They were wrong."

2. Text messages sent to four people today. One has left her phone at home: one has forgotten to charge his phone: one has sent a reply that has nothing whatsoever to do with the question: one is AWOL. (For bonus points: guess which one is my sister.)

3. Microsoft FrontRage 2000 [this is not a typo]. Have reinstalled twice and it still crashes every single time I save a fairly basic stylesheet. I don't think XP likes it. (Downloading CoffeeCup stylesheet thingy to see if it's any better: otherwise shall stick to Notepad.)

4. There are, amazingly, still people in the world who don't know that I can't get at my email on the average working day. Luckily this is not an average working day, as I took the afternoon off to write monthly news column. (Yes, of course that's why I'm updating LJ.)

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Would you like to borrow my Dreamweaver disk?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

maybe ... is it good for CSS?

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I've got a css stylesheet attached to my website and it works fine, although I'm not doing anything fancy, just setting fonts and colours.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

sounds good to me! Yes, I'd love to borrow it. (Have been playing with CSS via text-editor, all sorts of groovy positioning and zero-tables layouts, only to find that it's a complete mess in 'preview' mode in FrontRage. But then, I can't save it anyway: back to Notepad for now!)

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'll see you till B Movie now, but I'll post it. Mail me your address.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

why on earth are you using FrontPage? It's vile and horrid, and so is the code it writes.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I do hope you're not implying that I use FrontRage to create pages! *affronted look*

No, it's handy for link management etc: I don't do anything especially complex in it, and I edit the HTML rather than relying on FrontPage for anything much. And why do I use it? Because it's the first legitimate website-editing program I've owned, and it's good enough for what I need it for.

Until now ...

Seriously, if you want to recommend me something that is useful in terms of basic layout, provides a text-editing environment that's slightly more site-oriented than Notepad, and doesn't perpetrate horrors on pasted text, then please do!

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I do hope you're not implying that I use FrontRage to create pages! *affronted look*

I do most humbly apologise for the slur!

I use Dreamweaver, although mostly in code view. But it writes reasonable HTML, the latest version is not at all bad at CSS (although a lot of mine defeats it, because we use CSS rather than tables), and its site management is just as good as FP's was last time I looked at FP. Which is a very long time ago now.

[drplokta]

Depending on whether you're happy with raw HTML, I like NoteTab Pro, a tabbed text editor with many features designed to make HTML editing easy. The "Lite" version is free, and you can get a 30-day free trial of the "Pro" version.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

If it does what it says on the tin, I'm certainly very tempted! I'll give it a go, though I suspect it'll get used in conjunction with various WYSIWYG tools. Actually, I'll download the Pro demo too, and give it a go next time I have an afternoon to apply some design changes ...

Thanks for the recommendation!

Many thanks for rec!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

The 'lite' version rocks, and I have been happily trial-and-erroring all day (much more valid as a proper does-it-for-you editor!)

Now, I need only wait for the day when all browsers are equally CSS-compliant ...

[lproven.livejournal.com]

For a WYSIYG-ish HTML editor with reasonable manners, you could do worse than Mozilla.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

?? Mozilla edits too? How / where?

[lproven.livejournal.com]

If you have the floating toolbar closed, as most people do, then down at the left hand corner of the status bar are several tiny icons. They're the buttons for Navigator (the browser), Mail & Newsgroups, the Address Book, AIM Chat (in Netscape 6.x-7.x only) and Composer. Composer is the web editor. You can also go to the Window menu and open a new Composer window.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Will this make more sense if I assume you are talking about Netscape and not Mozilla at all?

[lproven.livejournal.com]

TTBOMK it applies to both. I'm pretty certain of this. Composer has been part of Netscape/Mozilla since the launch of Communicator, Netscape v4.0.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Am using Firebird 0.7 and am unable to detect any of these options. I remember using Netscape Communicator, via Netscape, for My First Web Page (back in the mid-90s). I like to think it has improved. But so much of the stylesheet stuff doesn't work in Netscape that I don't imagine their editor will be any more useful than Notepad.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

No no no, needs to be full Mozilla: 1.6 or Netscape 7.1 are current. The point of Fire[Fox|Bird] is that it's JUST Navigator, with all that other stuff cut out.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

... and the point of me using full Mozilla would be ...?

Must say I am very impressed with NoteTab. In fact must say so to Dr P too.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Getting a free WYSIWYG web editor?