Getting my site Opera-ted – ALT and TITLE tags

I've been learning a bit more about Opera, and was puzzled by the failure of ALT tags to show when I hovered over images. Discovered that I need to add a TITLE tag as well, so am beginning to update my web site (see link on right) to make it a better Opera experience.

The links Hotlist is a nifty tool as well, so my links are being redescribed to help on that as well. All this will take me a while as I do everything in Notepad (which means my site is simple, but not always fully standards compliant). I've thought about using software for this, but always draw back at the thought of the learning curve needed. Maybe that'll change, but I like the simplicity of hand-coding and it takes me back to my early days of desktop publishing on Ventura. Back then it was possible to typeset a book on a 286 with 1Mb Ram and a 40Mb hard-drive. Sure, some pages would take an hour to print out if they were graphics-heavy but I kinda liked the directness of the process.

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  2. Words

    10 Mar 2004

    Thanks Sushubh :star: I might try that.

    Meanwhile I've spent most of this evening doing a lo-tech spam-avoidance page. I've used a gif with my real e-mail address which acts as a button for a 'time-dated' address (month/year@) which I will change regularly. I was getting about 1000 a week on the original address I put up. I could use the cgi script provided by my ISP, but I'm about to buy proper web-space so this seemed easier.

  3. non-troppo

    10 Mar 2004

    Using notepad is really torture! 🙂 I also hand-code my site but use a good text-editor – syntax highlighting and proper text handling.

    For at least a comfortable bare-bucket ride, use SciTE – simple 200KB program that is a pure text editor with many features that will make your coding easier.

    http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html

    If you want something for hand-coding but with more 'tools' customised for HTML (including built-in FTP that makes a huge difference)- try HTML-Kit:

    http://www.chami.com/html-kit/features/

  4. Words

    10 Mar 2004

    Have just downloaded Scintilla… will give it a go.

    btw, that's the first time I'd noticed how Opera starts downloads before you select the download location. By the time I'd clicked through it was halfway here. Fab.

    Will also check out HTML-Kit.

    Thanks for the feedback 🙂

    Words

  5. goberiko

    10 Mar 2004

    When I'm forced to work in a Windows environment, I use EditPad Lite to my XHTML code. It also convert the carriage-returns from Unix to Windows to Mac and so on.

    <http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html&gt;

    I use the italian version, but there is a lot of languages as well.

  6. Words

    10 Mar 2004

    Downloading it now… Thanx 🙂

  7. Junyor

    10 Mar 2004

    And don't forget UltraEdit! I use it for almost all the text I write, whether it's little notes, HTML, XML, PHP, CSS, etc. It does code highlighting, advanced search and replace, and much much more. It even integrates with HTMLtidy. Every time I've wanted a feature in it, I've found that it already had it! Great support from the developer, too!

  8. Words

    10 Mar 2004

    Thanks Junyor

    Looks neat…

    Words

  9. non-troppo

    10 Mar 2004

    Tip 1: To integrate HTMLTidy into SciTE, download tidy.exe from here, and save it in your scite directory:

    http://htmltrim.sourceforge.net/tidy.html

    Then simply edit your SciTEGlobal.properties file and add the following:

    command.name.1.$(file.patterns.html)=Tidy
<br />command.1.$(file.patterns.html)=tidy.exe -m $(FileNameExt)
<br />command.is.filter.1.$(file.patterns.html)=1

    SciTE is less 'user-friendly' than others, but NO other editor has such power in such a tiny space (the properties files allow almost everything to be configured). I used to use UltraEdit for everything, but now SciTE is gradually taking over. It's superior syntax highlighting, brace matching and code collapsing are virtually unequalled in any other editor – and it contains all the core features of the big boys without the code bloat.

    Tip 2: To enable tabbed multi file editing, change the following lines in SciTEGlobal.properties to:

    tabbar.visible=1
<br />buffers=10
<br />buffers.zorder.switching=1

  10. Words

    10 Mar 2004

    Notepad + + which seems to do most of what I want. Nice program, easy on the eye, and basically still just a text editor.

    Available from <http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/&gt;

    Ain't source-forge.net great!

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