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| Has anyone used Firebug? | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 7 2012, 04:04 AM (72 Views) | |
| Holly | Jun 7 2012, 04:04 AM Post #1 |
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Disclaimer: I'm not extremely great at editing code. Background: Life is, for the moment (I hope, and not indefinitely), dictating rather more frugality on the part of my husband and myself than is usually the case (two mortgages will do that - please pray our house sells! gah!), so for the time being I have to stick with free blogging sites/free websites. This means having to fool around with templates, and editing them is entirely too time-consuming (by around midnight, all that code just makes my eyes bleed). Think of this as Editing Code for Dummies - and will Firebug work for my purposes? If not, what will? Thanks in advance to the folks on here who are much more knowledgeable about this stuff. Edited by Holly, Jun 7 2012, 04:06 AM.
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| mem | Jun 8 2012, 09:20 AM Post #2 |
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I've never used Firebug, but from the descriptions that I've read it seems like it's probably not going to do everything you want—it looks more like an inspection tool than a web page editor. Opera has a feature called Dragonfly that can be used to introspect on the contents of a web page and update them in real time. The issue is that many of the pages that you visit are dynamically created: the page presented is generated by code, and editing it wouldn't you do you any good. You have to muck around with the generator itself. It may be a helpful tool for diagnosis, but I'm not sure you'll be writing much code with it. A small screenshot of Dragonfly in action here. |
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| Holly | Jun 9 2012, 05:07 AM Post #3 |
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Thanks mem. All I'm looking for is something to use when I download templates and need to tweak HTML -- and then upload them again. I don't need a full-on web development program like Dreamweaver - I actually have it, but never use it. (I don't have time). Is there anything you would suggest? |
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| mem | Jun 11 2012, 04:58 AM Post #4 |
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Are the templates actually HTML? I know that Blogger uses some substitution sorts of things that can be a little tougher to figure out; I'm utterly ignorant about other blogging / content-management services. There are a lot of different editors that will let you work on the HTML directly--not necessarily what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but they offer some good features that make working on websites a bit easier. One of the more popular ones I've seen is the CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and with a name like that...how can you go wrong? (Disclaimer: You may actually go wrong.) |
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