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I get to teach kids at school how to program a web page. I was on one of the computers in the lab last week for just a little while, but couldn't figure out which program I could use to make a web page.
Is there a simple text editor, or can I do it in Word Perfect and save as html or htm?
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You can use TextEdit or Microsoft Word, both of which are almost certainly on an OSX school machine.
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What OS are the systems? WP for Mac is ancient, nearly fossilized. I doubt the HTML capabilities, if any, are any great shakes. BBedit is the typical 'text editor' for HTML on the Mac, but it's a time limited demo I believe. The Mac mavens here can probably advise you better.
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Depends, are they running OS 9 or OS X? (it'll be obvious as the system starts, if you're unsure).
If OS X, I'd just use textedit. Make sure you change the format to plain text rather than rich text, though (its somewhere in the file menus).
As for word perfect (odd choice to have installed on macs), you'd just need to save it in plain text format, with the extension .html (you could always change the extension manually if it doesn't like that).
All that really matters is that its in plain text format, the extension is an arbitrary convention of web servers and browsers.
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That is a question...were they interested in something that would 'help' them by pointing out syntax problems, missing tags and the like?
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The school could care less. The teacher is handing the kids over to me for an hour in front of computers. I get to choose the curriculum. They are sixth graders. They know how to type, how to use several of the programs on the computer, including silly 'student publishing' things that irritates me to know that the school paid money for, and how to utilize the internet for research.
I asked them if they wanted to learn how to program web page and they got excited. I think it is a great way to introduce them to simple programming, and the teacher loves the idea too. So that is what I'm doing.
But as well as I know computers, I'm actually fairly ignorant of Macs, though seems pretty straight forward. I just don't have one to play with at home. They are all imacs, installed about 2 years ago.
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Macs aren't that hard to figure out. Just remember that to actually quit a program you have to press COMMAND+Q. And a right click is just CTRL+click. Everything else is pretty much the same.
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Thanks for the advice about Cont+click being right click. I did not know that. I like right clicking more. Only takes one hand.
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Hey, if you want to learn about Macs from a layperson's perspective, I'm a good guy to talk to. Just don't ask anything too technical.
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The simplest thing to do would be to use TextEdit and just make all of the documents plain text (as opposed to RTF, which is TextEdit's default format). As everyone else has already said. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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my Mac at work has Simple Text. That should work.
Also, I use a program called Arachnophilia. It's a free html editor. The newer version runs on Java, so it's possible that you could run it on a Mac.
quote:Will Arachnophilia run on a Macintosh?
My understanding is that the current version of OS X contains a suitable Java runtime engine, and some people have reported good results with Arachnophilia on this platform.
I think that using word processing programs to create web pages isn't generally recommended. At least, it wasn't in the classes I took. I was told that the wp program would add unnecessary codes to the document. Something like that.
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I was going to suggest having them open up the Unix terminal and learning how to get around without a mouse. Separate the geeks from the non-geeks. Posts: 5957 | Registered: Oct 2001
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Amka, if you plug in any two button USB mouse, the right button will automatically map to ctrl-click. And the scroll wheel will work.
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I use SubEthaEdit a free text editor with code-highlight. It's the best code editor I've come across. Another cool package, if you decide to go down the css route, is StyleMaster - something that's available for both Mac and Windows.
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