Newbie Question - Please be Gentle
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I have just renewed an interest of writing HTML to build a web site. I did this more than 10 years ago but have not used HTML since. My first step is to choose an editor. Notepad++ is my current choice.
I’ve been noodling around the 'Net for the last couple of days looking for information on using NP++. I’ve found some sites that were sorta kinda useful but have yet to find what I’d call a solid reference. That’s why I joined here.
Can someone point me to a good learning tool as either articles or videos that will introduce me to good practices for using NP++ and more especially a tool(s) focusing on using NP++ for coding HTML?
Is there an ‘official’ User Manual? If so, where can I find it?
TIA
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@RH-Hutchins said in Newbie Question - Please be Gentle:
. Notepad++ is my current choice.
Great!
I’ve been noodling around the 'Net for the last couple of days looking for information on using NP++. I’ve found some sites that were sorta kinda useful but have yet to find what I’d call a solid reference.
I find that hard to believe.
Can someone point me to a good learning tool as either articles or videos that will introduce me to good practices for using NP++ and more especially a tool(s) focusing on using NP++ for coding HTML?
Notepad++ does much more than HTML, so there are probably not many tutorials out there on HTML & Notepad++ together. And the Notepad++ Community forum is not here to support learning HTML in specific (if we were expected to teach HTML just because you can and should type HTML in Notepad++ , we’d have to teach all 80 languages that Notepad++ syntax highlights naturally…). Find one of the gazillion HTML tutorials on the net, and then use Notepad++ plus one or more of the HTML plugins available for install using Plugins > Plugins Admin to program your HTML
Is there an ‘official’ User Manual? If so, where can I find it?
Yes. It was linked from the official Notepad++ website where you downloaded Notepad++, and from the ?-menu in the Notepad++ app itself. Or in the FAQ in this forum. But here it is again: https://npp-user-manual.org
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@RH-Hutchins
It happens (to search for long and not find).
Sometimes we search using the “wrong” keywords.
Or we neglect some results because they don’t look like what we thought they ought to look.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if someone searched “notepad++” but ignored “npp” as something odd looking.
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@PeterJones well, that was certainly was a “warm” welcome.
You seem to have missed the point of my post. I’ll sharpen the next one . . . If there is one . . . So don’t hurt yourself
So let’s make this very simple so that even YOU can understand. Even a blind mute legal imbecile can tell that NP++ is a versatile tool. My request was for information from a user who focuses on HTML asking for info on that topic not asking to be taught HTML nor to be taught any of the other languages supported by the tool nor how versatile NP++ is. THAT is why I found other articles less than satisfactory for my purposes. I don’t want to build a typewriter only to compose on it!
So long
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@Victorel-Petrovich Thank you for the tip and the civil response. I do seem to lack skill composing effective search arguments. Perhaps I’ll find another forum better suited to my needs and temperament.
Life is too short to suffer through any of it in the company of folks like the first responder to my first (and only) original post.
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@RH-Hutchins
I’d say, don’t let anyone discourage you too much. (Although this can feel easier said than done, I know).
There are different people around here, and, more importantly, the same person can appear in different ways at different times !
I think that, overtime, you can find useful info on this forum, and in the manual.
After you get a bit more comfortable with basic N++ usage , you may find plugins that could do what you want with Html, like in the lists here:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/I’m also sure that there are more specialized tools for writing HTML and websites than N++, but I don’t have experience with them.
good luck
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@RH-Hutchins said in Newbie Question - Please be Gentle:
So let’s make this very simple so that even YOU can understand. Even a blind mute legal imbecile can tell […]
Was it you who asked for a gentle conversation?
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IMO Peter was 100% gentle with his reply, as requested by RH in the title. RH’s reply to Peter – not the same level of gentleness.
Just where do all the odd people come from?There’s definitely some people lurking/contributing on here that work heavily with N++ and HTML. Maybe they’ll have some advice for RH, but maybe they’re afraid of also getting attacked if their advice isn’t exactly what RH is looking for. :-(
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@RH-Hutchins My advice for HTML, or anything, and NP++, or anything, is to aim small. If you type “aim small” into Google you will discover there’s a second part and it’s “aim small, miss small” but it all starts with “aim small.”
Work on understanding small pieces that are easy to chew and swallow. If you come across something that seems too large to consume comfortably then cut it into smaller pieces.
HTML in itself is a huge topic. Most of the web developers I have run across seem to know 1% or of HTML. When they need to work on a web page developed by someone else they often throw out the old/previous work as their 1% does not line up with the 1% of the previous developer.
As far as using NP++ goes, I myself use plain NP++ with no plugins or other special support for HTML. I test the HTML code using a web browser.
