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Candestine
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Lost- mac os x and html

Post by Candestine »

Ok, so I kinda figured out how to make my pages work... I dl'd my indextemp and changed it a bit in a pre-done html thing, so it looked just like any WP doc I'd do . heres the thing tho... i want to WRITE it in HTML. I can't add counters or the appropriate links or even backgrounds with the process Im using now.
HOW do I convert my html text into an html doc that Keen will recognize?


Por ejemplo:
I write this: (spaces put in so that it wont read as code)
" ..html > <head><title>***comic_name*** - ***todays_date***</title></head>
<body bgcolor=#000000 text=CC0000></html> "
and instead of getting black bgrnd with red text I get a wite bgrnd with black text that reads my html code. The tags still work. Am I making sense? augh. help!
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Post by Atrus »

HTML documents are plain text, very simple. I wish I could remember what the name of the basic text editor for the mac is, but you can use that. If you really need all the extra word processing stuff to make you feel comfortable or something, you can usually go to File>Save and there should be a little drop down box that says something like "File Type", you should select plain text.

What's happening is the word processor does what it always does, it saves exactly what you see but in HTML (because you selected that format). It doesn't know you're trying to write HTML yourself.
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Edit: Okay, what happened? That was weird...


I recommend Taco HTML edit. It's everything I need in a Text Editor without all of the extra junk for people who can't write tags, Mac OS X native!
The site is here. http://tacosw.com/

Sorry about my first post, evidently something weird happend when I submitted it...
Last edited by Drywit on Sun Oct 06, 2002 8:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Try that again, it obviously didn't work the first time.

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