WYSIWYG template editing tool?

  • Lunatique

    (@lunatique)


    19 years ago

    I’m one of those people who can’t code, but I have no problem using WYSIWYG softwares like Dreamweaver, or more mainstream bloggers like LiveJournal or MySpace, because I can see the colors as I’m making changes (and I don’t have a hard time finding what’s what–be it background, borders, fonts..etc). All I need to do right now is to simply change the colors of my page, like I did with these:
    https://lunatique-sf.livejournal.com/
    https://www.myspace.com/rob_chang

    to match the colors of my website https://www.ethereality.info

    But I have no idea how to do it in the code–as I can’t tell one tag from another. Is there a WYSIWYG template editor out there I can use?

    Right now my page looks like this: https://www.ethereality.info/ethereality_website/about_me/wordpress/

    And as you can see, I was able to change the header, because there’s a WYSIWYG tool for that in the admin tools. But there isn’t one for editing the actual template.

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  • c_chana

    (@c_chana)

    there’s no WYSIWYG editor for editing something like that because it’s controlled by the CSS file.

    It may be possible to use a program like topstyle to make the changes, which has a small window that vidually shows what changes are being made to the CSS. you could then replace the stylesheet with your edited version.

    alternatively, if you know the hex value, you need to change the following value:

    background-color: #xxxxxx;

    to whatever you require. it appears about 40 lines down in the stylesheet I’m using and you can edit it by going to Presentation > Theme Editor and then choosing Stylesheet from the links on the elft.

    nabilahmad

    (@nabilahmad)

    Just browse to your site, save the html from it, download the .css and use whatever wysiwyg you want to use and load up those two files.

    re-upload the css.

    A word of warning, back-up your css. no guarantees what it’ll look like once its been turned into a masterpiece by your wysiwyg.

    lleger

    (@lleger)

    Actually, there is a WYSIWYG editor for css. It’s called CSSVista and can be found here.

    Thread Starter Lunatique

    (@lunatique)

    Thanks so much for that! I’ve been trying a bunch of stuff like Topstyle, Amaya, TSW WebCoder, EngInSite CSS Editor, Style Studio…etc, but none so far are live WYSIWYG. This CSSVista might just be the one I’m looking for!

    lleger

    (@lleger)

    No problem…

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