I'm trying to move away from Adobe Dreamweaver and now that Coda 2 is out with lots of new features, I have the perfect candidate :D
The only feature I need and can't find an equivalent in Coda is the ability to create templates and files dependent on it. To set editable regions and when the template is updated, all the code gets updated in all the files except for the editable regions.
Is there a way to do this seamlessly on Coda 2 or with plugins / external tools?
I need this to html only pages, on .php files I do it by including(header and top phps)...
Thanks in advance
That feature is not available in Coda. But like you said, when using PHP, you can just use includes to pull in common content. Using HTML only, there is not really an elegant way to deal with this. Is there a reason why you can't just use PHP files instead?
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We have a asp.net mvc website which is using umbraco CMS system. Now,we want to convert the CMS system to plain HTML pages. We do not have the complete code of the website.
How can we remove CMS system and convert it into flat HTML files easily without writing the code from the scratch for this website.
Why would you want to move away from a CMS? A CMS is build to make things easier and you are moving going back to the dark ages of the internets where we build websites with notepad by typing HTML by hand.
Discaimer: I am an umbraco dev, and I love the product. So I might be biased
To answer your question, I use http://www.httrack.com/ to backup existing (old) websites before moving to a new platform & hosting.
To answer your question:
For every page, view source and copy the shown Html to a new Html file. Make sure you honour the folder structure too.
You could also use https://www.httrack.com/ that might give you what you need.
To try to persuade you not to:
However I would strongly recommend against doing this. Umbraco has great mechanisms in place that give almost comparable speed to a flat file website. It uses an Xml file that gets updated when database values are changed, and builds pages and content from this.
If you flatten your website to plain Html files all your Urls will invariably change and this is super bad for SEO. You will also have a 'mare of a time trying to update the site with new content or editing the same content found across all pages e.g. the main navigation and footer.
I have a course work for which I have to make a (as advanced as possible) WYSIWYG web page editor in VB.NET (2010). It should have a visual editor with drag-drop support for several elements such as anchors, images, tables etc., and it should generate HTML based on that structure.
I don't know where to begin though.. I have some experience with vb.net, I made a tabbed notepad vaguely following a tutorial, but I don't know how to make this drag-drop thingy in a richtextbox.
I've searched for a tutorial, but most of them are just too simple - a text editor with browser control rendering the HTML.. I found one really nice and advanced, but it's in german :-|
So, if anyone knows any resources / tutorials I could use to start things I'll appreciate it.
I won't start with a richtextbox. Do you want to realize it in WPF or Forms (I would recommend WPF)?
In WPF there is relative simple a Drag-And-Drop behavior for elements (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-en/library/ms742859.aspx).
I would start with some simple elements (e.g. TextBoxes) and drag-drop them from some sort of toolbox onto a grid with fixed columns and rows (and later use a canvas). And then generate the HTML-Code from that.
In general, most of the WYSIWYG browser based editors are written in Javascript using an editable DIV.
A good example is tinymce:
http://www.tinymce.com/
Download, including full source code, is available here:
http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php
You can use CKEditor. Its one of the best WYSIWYG editor i have worked with. Its highly customizable and opensource.
Given below is the URL for the website:
http://ckeditor.com/
I'm trying to build a website and the menu is in 3 language with the same prices and number order ex. 1. General Tao 8.95$. Is it a bit overkill to use xml for the menu? because I know I can reuse it in indesign for printing the menu.
It's also important to have the .html extension instead of .xml, is there a way to do that without server side? I'm a bit confuse with xml, since i'm new to it. For the explanation please be detail enough.
If you can reuse it, and its meeting your needs to build a flexiable menu system with 3 languages then go for it.
I dont quite understand what you mean by having .html instead of .xml. If your loading an xml file normally the extension would be .xml..
I've been told I have to make a 100% HTML CSS Javascript site for a project at school. I'm used to the master pages of asp.net and I'm worried about how I'm going to do a huge website without the use of them.
After thinking about it for a while, I came up with what I think is an ok solution. Using iframes...
Would it be safe to make one page that has an iframe instead of a content area to connect to other pages to make it appear as if we used a master page?
It seems kind of hacked up so, is there a better way? Is there any software (hopefully free) that provides a decent system of master pages?
Thanks!
You could use a js-based template engine, such as jQuery templates.
You could just dreamweaver and use dreamweaver templates.
Template-Toolkit includes the ttree utility, which will do what you want. You can build the site from templates to get plain, static HTML documents. Since this takes place at build time, you do not need anything like ASP / PHP / Perl / etc on the server at runtime.
I'm looking for a HTML editor that kinda supports templated editing or live snippets or something like that.
Background: I'm working on a website for a friend. As there are no specifications what the webspace/webserver can or can't do, I decided to make it a pure HTML/CSS page, or rather 10 of them. I wrote a template, copied it 10 times and edited the content. And guess what, the template has to be changed.
Therefore I'm looking for a (HTML-)editor that has some kind of live template system where I can edit the content in as it where plain text and then save the project into the 10 pure HTML/CSS files.
I thought about using PHP (the only script language I've some knowledge in), but writing the underlying template script would cost me enough time that I could change all files by hand. I'm not that familiar with AJAX to know if there's a way to load content from another file. If so, this would be an option if there already is a script. With Webdeveloper (firefox extension) I could save the generated source code as HTML/CSS.
Thanks in advance
Edit: any hints how to do this without an editor are welcome
Edit2: In my mind the tool looks like a plain old text editor like SciTe, but capable of editing multiple files simultaneously in the same text area, so it looks like editing one ordinary file, but actually it's a whole bunch of files.
Dreamweaver will do this for you, it's had HTML templating of the type your describe built in from very early versions (because from how you phrase the question I do not think you're thinking along the lines of a PHP templating engine such as Smarty, but some sort of HTML layout formating)
Although I regularly look around for Dreamweaver replacements, and I've certainly been impressed by Aptana, I still tend to use Dreamweaver in my development stack simply because whereas I can compensate for some of the more coding-orientated features it misses, I find the WYSIWYG nature of the editor invaluable.
I would have used a template engine.
I wrote a post about a dead simple script using the Dwoo template engine and mod_rewrite, where I am taking the uri and loading the forrect data and template based on that. You should be able to get it running in a few minutes.
Maybe I am way off on this, but why don't you look into an Open Source Content Management System (PHP/MYSQL)? There are MANY light systems that are not like Drupal, Joomla (if you do not want the big bulk of those CMS's).
There are even a few good ones for light web design that are flat file driven.
That would be my suggestion, at least if not for this project, look into it for future projects.
Here is an example of a great micro CMS that would seem to fit the bill for what you are doing:
http://www.mini-print.com/