WYSIWYG Editing

  • I’m an artist that does a little coding. I like to use visual interfaces like Dreamweaver. I’m looking for one that can help me design my WP site. Has anyone had any experience with Style Master (https://www.westciv.com/style_master/)? Or do you recommend some other visual CSS apps? The more I can work by moving visual elements around (i.e. Illustrator, Photoshop), the better I like it.
    Thanks.

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  • If you have Dreamweaver, you can use it to make your WP site! The only thing that makes a web page run on WP is the stuff that you’ve installed on your web space and the special tags that make the titles, dates, entries show up. While most people who use WP prefer to use CSS heavy sites, you don’t have to. You can make a site in Photoshop, export it to Dreamweaver, add the WP tags where you want them, and you are set to go.
    Sorry, I don’t know of any other visual CSS apps, but I hope that helps some.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Thanks for your response. Although, for a while I was going for the record: Post with the most views (100+) without a response.
    I have been forcing myself to learn CSS/PHP (which can’t be all bad), but I still would like a visual development environment. Dreamweaver is visual for HTML but not for CSS/PHP. I assume because of the reasons you state. If I understand correctly, these files require resources on the host web server.
    However, Style Master and Top Style advertise themselves as “visual” IDEs so, if true, there must be a way to emulate. I suppose I could download the free trial versions, but I was hoping to get some input from people who already have had some experience with these (or similar) apps before spending time downloading, installing, evaluating, etc. I would especially hate wasting the time exploring these apps if they suck, or aren’t truly visual, when I could have been working on my coding skills.

    Depending on what kind of machine you use, you can actually set up your local machine to act as a webserver and install the appropriate programs and compilers. Then, you can test locally before uploading to your server. Just a thought.

    Many folks here do not like those new fangled editors. Its a religious thing ??

    I *can* work Notepad ??

    I’ve used both Style Master and Top Style to explore the possibilities in WP and stylesheeting, and for me, Style Master seemed the little better than Top Style, though the interface might be a little more pro in Top Style.
    Notepad, as podz mentioned is offcourse the ultimate tool if you know exactly where all lines go, but for starters you might find it a bit easier with one of the mentioned, included Dreamweaver or similar. Notepad can be used for quick tweaking, as I do.
    Style Master have the better way of showing the stylesheet as it should be at once, Top Style seems a second or so slower on the live preview. Both can be set up (I think) to style pages online, but what I do is to save the index.php to index.htm and style it locally, it works perfectly, at least for me.
    Well, good luck anyways, hope this gave some answers and not only questions.
    Petter / Norway

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