Bluefish HTML Editor Adding new snippet

Currently I am developing web pages using the free Bluefish Editor on my MacBook.

Just added my first code snippet, but it took me some time to overcome annoying niggle that every time it refused to paste code into snippet section but just pasted it into HTML page code.

SOLUTION. Do not use CMD-V but instead right-click and select paste. Wallah all OK.


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MarkdownNote

MarkdownNote

For several weeks now I have been trying out various ways of writing web pages using my iPad. There are some good tools

• Gusto


• WPD (Web Page Development)




Both these have FTP feature so I can use this to combine with work on my PC and Laptop.




The one annoying thing was the cumbersome data entry of HTML tags. By chance while looking at Knowtilus browser I came across MarkdownNote. This is a small subset of HTML with unbuilt short cut for HTML, a markup for HTMarkupL called Markdown. You can create headings, text type, lists, images and links.







This iPad implementation of Daring Fireball currently costs $3.99 and is smart, so that when you hold iPad in landscape orientation, you have a preview of output.





Useful help, which you can display in-place of preview if you wish. Also very useful is that any HTML tag written in full is passed on to HTML unchanged. I did this toadd colour to final comment.







It is iPad only but for iPhone and iPod Touch there is another Markdown App called NOCS currently $0.99. Not in the same league, but still useful for these devices. Note you must have files saved with HTML extension for NOCS to offer conversion to HTML format.





Note another advantage of Markdown is that the output is well formatted even without converting to HTML.





Both Apps support Dropbox so whatever device I use I can synch either with FTP or Dropbox.





This blog was written using MarkdownNote.




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CoffeeCup CSS Menu Designer - Problem Resolved

I have just spent 3 hours trying to understand why the menus built with the Menu Designer would not stand alone but always had the next object, usually a h2 or similar text floating next to it. I followed the advise in the PDF Help Tutorial, ie wrapping the HTML Menu statements with div tag and creating and applying a class with

.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto}

What was needed was the following. I changed margin-left to 8am otherwise the menu was to close to the left.

.center { margin-left: 8am; margin-right: auto; display:inline-block; }

I had tried display: block; as I knew this caused the line break I wanted but it made no difference. I am not familiar with inline-block so I will have to research this, but anyway my menus work as I want now.

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CoffeeCup Code Cleaner not working - resolved

The Tools - Code Cleaner stopped working. I gave up
and ran the Document - Validate HTML which
automatically ran the W3C Markup Validation Service. This had
several messages, one being about the use of lh list
header tag that I had tried when exploring the Insert -
List command. I removed this as it is not part of HTML5
standards and now the Tools - Code Cleaner is working
fine again.

Images not seen online but work on local disk - a solution

Having decided to use my trusted Total Commander to FTP my site I was developing with CoffeCup, see previous item, I was surprised to see photos not displayed after I had published to web. They worked OK when I was accessing pages on my local hard drive.

Agh, then I recalled similar problems in the past that had taken ages to resolve. I have my FTP options set to. Invert any upper case character in a file name to lower case when uploading. A quick edit changing all references to photos to lower case and upload new version and all OK again.


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CoffeeCup only publishes to the root - correction no it doesn't

Corrected post

The reason why I could not upload my website to my target folder was because I was using File - Upload File to Server when I should have been using My Websites - Upload Selected Files or My Websites - Upload Entire Website Project which send them to the folder you have defined as the root in the My Websites - Website Project Settings.

Original post

I use the excellent free Zymic hosting for testing my web developments. I need to have many folders to keep the various projects separate.

I have discovered that CoffeeCup HTML Editor insists on publishing index.html to the root file of my service. I tried for over an hour to get it to publish to my target folder to no avail and on googling discovered that it only puts this file in the root.

So I now publish to my local disk, well I di this anyway, and then use my trusty Total Commander from Ghisler to do FTP work.

Another inelegant solution but at least Total Commander is very fast.


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CoffeeCup multiple views

CoffeeCup HTML Editor does not appear to let you view more than one source page side by side. For example it would be nice to be able to see say HTML code, CSS Code and Page Output all in separate tiled windows.
You can have both files open at the same time but you have to flip from one to the other to see.

I sometimes use TopStyle Lite and open the CSS file in a separate MS Window which I the tile with CoffeeCup window, so seeing HTML and CSS source side by side, but this is an inelegant solution


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