Converting HTML to CCS

[ELoRPS]

Now HERE's a question..

I have an extensive site with MANY pages all in HTML,.all made with Front
Page 2000. I work mainly with a WYSIWYG interface rather than code because
that's just the way it happened. Code freaks me out, and I only know how to
tweak and fix links and such when it comes to code to make a site work.
Is there a converion app out there yet that will by the click of a button,
convert my HTML files to CCS or a better format in general? I;ve been out of
the game for a while, and hear that ASP pages are used as well.
HTML may be a thing of the wayside, but I can't help it. Front Page is
easy for me to use, although I struggle a lot with tables when I am piecing
together my main interface with rollovers.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[Roy Lindhardt]

It really rather depends upon what you are trying to accomplish with your
site/pages or particular page upon which code format you are going to use.
I don't believe I have ever heard of CCS however. Are you possibly meaning
CSS? In that case that is really only a styling code sheet (CSS stands for
cascading style sheet), which would be used to quickly apply changes to all
web pages that use the style sheet to affect such things as font size,
style, color; background color; scrollbar colors; stuff like that. In other
words it is a "help" to HTML code.

ASP on the other hand is used for dynamic content, such as working with
databases. It can allow you to perform searches, additions, deletions,
updates . . . . Most of the rest of the stuff in an ASP pages however is
all rendered by HTML code.

You may also have heard of XML. It is something like a combination of the
two others I just mentioned. It displays data given it from various
platforms and allows you to work out how to display said information with
amazing flexibility. Much of the programs from Microsoft now allows you to
put out stuff in XML. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint server. It still
utilizes many of old HTML code, but is definitely much more flexible.

Hopefully this has given you some idea into what each of these different
formats. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact
me.

Roy

 

[ELoRPS]

NICE! Thank you so much! I will check this out immediately!

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Colin McCulloch
-Art Department-
The Promotion Factory
The latest version of TopStyle has a feature called Style Upgrade - this is
what the web site says about it: Make the move to style sheets painless
with TopStyle's Style Upgrade feature! This time-saving tool provides a
quick, reliable way to replace all deprecated (outdated) HTML markup -
including the long-abused HTML <font> tag - with equivalent CSS.

I haven't tried it so I don't know exactly how it works - or how well it
works.

http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp


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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
Spider Web Woman Designs
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