Time-SavingTips for Handcoders using NotePad

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Tips for Hand Coders - NotePad - Html Pros

You do not have to FTP and refresh continuously when designing a web page to access your changes

Just open the "view source" when on the Internet of the page you want to change

Pull down "Note Pad"

copy and paste - or - type your text

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for any images that are on the server you are coding or making a change to a page from and want to see exacty how it will appear


Use the following CODE in the head

base href="http://www.url.com/"

(of course -www.url.com- will be changed to your site's
domain name / home directory ....


if you dont need to see the images - don't use the code...


Save the notepad page as whaterver.html
on to the "Desktop"


You can now instantly make changes by refeshing the HTML page that has been on the desktop - instead of making round- trip refreshes to the sever to see the results of your "tweak"ing.


After everything if Perfect - then upload or paste to the server...



Additionally:

You can ALSO test out your Perl PHP and Javascripts DHTML scripts by using this technique


You can also have an easy way to instantly EMAIL others

quicker than openning up OUTLOOK or WEBMAIL

just save the HTML page where your FORMMAIL is located
in your website hosting - set the appropriate permissions...


Decide whether it will be TEXT Or HTML message


put in a templete that you might send frequently...


put in the YOUR REPLY EMAIL ADDRESS...


put in
quote:

don't reply to this email use the address ...


SUDDENLY-- in seconds you can send email


Lastly:


You can also use YAHOO MAIL to cut and paste snippets of webpages that you want to examine code form - just click the " view HTML " button near the bottom of the compose page.

also. you can interpret ascii test


Goodluck!