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Hey guys,

What is the best / easiest to use html editor?
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Notepad
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I use AlleyCode
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vi or emacs

wordpad at a pinch...

i've heard some unwashed hippies going on about html-kit...
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Jamin beat me to it.

Go old school, use notepad.
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doo_much wrote:I use AlleyCode
yeah. I would agree.
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thanks guys, i'll give them all a look.

Another question: i want to keep a picture in the same place in the bottom right hand corner of the page irrespective of screen resolution (ie: the picture is to always sit 10pixels off the right border and bottom border .) How does one do this?
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Monty wrote:Another question: i want to keep a picture in the same place in the bottom right hand corner of the page irrespective of screen resolution (ie: the picture is to always sit 10pixels off the right border and bottom border .) How does one do this?
Some CSS would do the trick. Something along the lines of this:

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.botright
{
   position: absolute;
   bottom: 10px;
   right: 10px;
}
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Ron2K wrote:
Some CSS would do the trick. Something along the lines of this:

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.botright
{
   position: absolute;
   bottom: 10px;
   right: 10px;
}
boom, headshot...
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Thanks!
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Monty, I started out with Scite (Scintilla Text Editor) It's lightweight like notepad, but it highlights keywords, which can be usefull sometimes.

I then moved on to Dreamweaver as the company supplied it. Very strong tool, but costly too. So I would recommend Scite.
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Notepad++ has syntax highlighting and basic auto-complete.

Screenie: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/com ... erHTML.gif
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GreyWolf wrote:
Ron2K wrote:
Some CSS would do the trick. Something along the lines of this:

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.botright
{
   position: absolute;
   bottom: 10px;
   right: 10px;
}
boom, headshot...
hey..

If you want to keep it there irrespective of scrolling as well then use the following code..

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.botright
{
    position:fixed;
    _position:absolute; /* ie6 */
    bottom:10px;
    left:10px;
    height:XXpx; /* optional extra */
    width:XXpx; /* optional extra */
}
The reason for the _position is for the old IE6 browser and you need to sometimes define a height and width as some browsers don't necessarily have an automated size according to it's content. They are optional extra's though.

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