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queerbychoice) wrote2001-09-01 07:39 pm
queerbychoice) wrote2001-09-01 07:39 pm
Funeral Rites
Today I formally accepted the death of my longtime partner FrontPage Express, who was murdered at the hands of its parents the Microsoft Corporation, and I gave it an official burial in which I uninstalled its corpse from my computer. Then I got so emotional in my need to escape the painful memories of its demise that I scrubbed its fingerprints off every single thing it ever touched, by using BK Replace Em (excellent freeware utility, by the way) to remove all its "[meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"]" tags from all my HTML files.
But it still left behind 70 invalid registry entries, most of which I found and fixed with EasyCleaner (another excellent freeware utility), but there's still a dead "Edit with . . ." link on the right click pop-up menus for all my *.htm and *.html files, so I think I'll have to fix that one by hand with regedit.exe. What a mess.
I also had another "get acquainted" session with the two programs competing to replace it, Arachnophilia and HTML-Kit. But I'm just not at all attracted to either of them, so I think I'll still be scouring the personals for better software companions for quite some time.
But it still left behind 70 invalid registry entries, most of which I found and fixed with EasyCleaner (another excellent freeware utility), but there's still a dead "Edit with . . ." link on the right click pop-up menus for all my *.htm and *.html files, so I think I'll have to fix that one by hand with regedit.exe. What a mess.
I also had another "get acquainted" session with the two programs competing to replace it, Arachnophilia and HTML-Kit. But I'm just not at all attracted to either of them, so I think I'll still be scouring the personals for better software companions for quite some time.
Real HTML
I was usign Microsoft Word as my web-page editor, until I realised that a page that was totally blank was taking up nearly 50k, with all the tags and headers it was putting in there behind my back. So I spent a week or two trawling through the web reading HTML tutorials, and I taught myself to write my own code, inside about 3 weeks. I did briefly use Arachnophilia but wasn't keen, so now I'm using Notepad. It's surprisingly easy to learn, even for someone like me (with no programming experience whatsoever). Go on, give it a go. You'll feel so much better! :)