[aklug] Re: Gui WYSIWYG web development tools

From: Thomas Plastino Martin <tenach@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 21 2010 - 23:15:13 AKDT

That is an interesting way of going about it... I never really thought about
using macros to help hand code.
Thomas Plastino Martin
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kenneth D Weinert
<kenw@quarter-flash.com>wrote:

> On 07/21/2010 01:10 AM, Thomas Plastino Martin wrote:
> > I code everything by hand as I haven't yet found a WYSIWYG editor to my
> > liking. One tool that helps me out greatly, aside from GIMP, is agave.
> It
> > does a great job in helping me find complimenting and contrasting colors.
>
> A couple of good sites for getting colors:
>
> http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30
> http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/
>
> I do editing by hand, but I also use makefiles to make things make more
> sense. For example, I have file.CSS that has stuff like:
>
> #define BLACK %000000
> #define GREEN %00FF00
>
> etc and then the makefile has:
>
> file.css : file.CSS
> cpp file.CSS - | sed -e "s/%/#/g" > file.css
>
> normally using macros and such, of course, but that's the general idea.
> It just lets me use meaningful names in my "source" files and still
> produce usable files on the web.
>
> It's an even better idea to use meaningful names instead of color names
> for obvious reasons.
>
>
> --
> Ken Weinert
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