Peter's Blog 24.2.2004

Played with HTML-Kit and I was impressed.

Played with HTML-Kit and I was impressed. It is basically a raw html editor, the kind of thing that has shortcuts to insert the tags. However it is very well done. I liked it's seamless FTP support which makes editing files on an FTP site just like editing them locally. It has many plugins for creating the tags and stuff. It has a good html checker that even does the corrections for you. It is a nice change from NetObjects: it's me vs HTML rather than me vs the IDE.

As I was forced back to raw html I had to investigate framesets and soon found out it is just what I need and I can do my blog without needing ASP just for server side includes.

Conclusion: I won't be reinstalling NetObjects except maybe as a way to create button graphics.

Configuring apt:

Configuring apt: added this to /etc/apt/

Added this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

then did:

apt-get update

to load package lists and stuff. This took a while.

Then did:

apt-get install apache-doc

to get apache documentation. This worked, although the default apache website will not display it without an access error. The link on the page appears to be wrong.

Next was:

apt-get install vim

which is running now and seems to be installing vim 6.1.

The ftp site I am using seems to be very slow.

However, vim works so joy unbounded.

I think HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/)..

I think HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) is the next thing to investigate. It appears to be a very powerful html editor. From what I can make out it is also free, although you can register it and get some add-ons. NetObjects was a little too constricting for my liking. I will be working on a collaborative website project and the HTML tools are to be DreamWeaver and Notepad. DreamWeaver is just too expensive for me to shell out on so coding raw HTML is more the way to go, especially if I can get a decent tool for free. There is also the HTML editor in Mozilla to consider. HTML kit has templates and plugins and stuff to make life easier.

You can knock up a web site quickly in NetObjects but in a Microsofty way you are then constrained to having no control over what you are doing. I do not like websites that fix the size horizontally and force you to make your browser a certain width. I believe html was designed for flexibly layout and that text should wrap if the screen is not wide enough. NetObjects seems to roll out this kind of site.

IT W0RKS, I can ssh into the server from work.

IT W0RKS, I can ssh into the server from work. Happiness. 0K so it's a ssh terminal and I have to have a think about what I can use it for but I'm happy. This is going out the company firewall through port 443 (ssl) which isn't proxied. My router forwards it from port 443 to 22, the normal ssh port.

I can spend my lunch time setting it up remotely. Bliss.

I have to figure out how to trigger sounds remotely to scare my wife.

Apache is running as well.