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Documentation for Dan's ACTLab Extreme Freestyle Hacking Webpages |
Taking two ACTLab courses during the Spring
2007 semester has given me plenty of opportunity
to brush up on HTML. I complained about the
Coffee Cup Visual HTML I used last semester
and have now abandoned it except for making
buttons. My preference is a text editor and
plain old HTML.
So, I am using Coffee Cup HTML Editor 2007, but only occasionally if I need to find a missing markup character. Otherwise, I simply hack on the text editor which comes up when I double-click on the file name. I am both old and old-fashion, and I want to know what is going on inside the code; and, I do not want things recoded every time on every page (including renaming/renumbering) when I recompile, as the visual coder insists. I have found it much faster to simply use 2 computers, one to write code and send it to the server and a second one to see what it looks like on the display. The first machine is a PC, the second is my Mac laptop. I will, from time to time, see what my product looks like on the PC (FireFox). Generally if it looks OK on a Mac, it will be fine on a PC. |
I believe that I have gotten the process of
importing audio and video into a website
under control. I shall confirm this when I
try to import the 5.1 AC-3 stream into my
Dream and Delirium website. Ordinary audio,
images, and video, and their manipulation
from my digital camera in the movie mode
through the conversion to Adobe Premier and
compressed via Quicktime Pro seem fairly
easy compared to last semester. Of course,
it is very helpful to have both the help and
the encouragement from Professor and Goddess
Sandy Stone and TA Joey Lopez. Many of the
ACTLab students are quite knowledgeable as
well, especially since I am trying to learn
Macintosh.
I still think I would rather code in Intel assembler than have a lifetime of coding in HTML. At least in assembler I know what the machine is going to do. HTML and its shrink or expand to fit drives me up a wall. Maybe I will learn to accept it next semester. Or, maybe not. |