Reports from our 2014 Meetings
Reports from our 2014 Meetings
Our first meeting for the year.
This month we started the new year with a look at some new software. The February issue of PC Authority’s DVD had Rapid CSS on offer. While its only a code writer with no WYSIWYG properties it is far more than just a CSS builder. This program will write CSS and HTML and can be set to configure the css in less or sass style. You can also add some preconfigured javascript, PHP, asp, and ruby scripts as well as write or add your own.
The code is right up to date with HML 5 and CSS3. There are a wide range of templates, and wizards to help you create html and css code from the start. The program has a project menu and you can have multiply projects or you can simply open an existing folder and start editing. Like all good editors it saves straight code so there your work can be edited in other programs if needed.
After the break we had a look at the basics of Javascript. Starting with a video on what it is and how it should be incorporated in html code. At its basic Javascript should be set to run after the html code has been read which means placing it at the end of the page. The current thinking in design is that a web page is seen in three parts; Content, the HTML Appearance, the CSS and Behaviour, the scripts used. Like CSS any javascript is best kept as a separate file so editing is easy. Using Rapid CSS we inserted some of its predefined javascripts in to a page. We then viewed and edited the code and discussed the results.
Steve South
Sig Leader