Hellish HTML Handcoders

"We're Sick - We Need Help"

This page is dedicated to all those intrepid souls who code their HTML like our forefathers did - by hand!

<rant><whine> When we were kids, we had to walk miles to the bus stop, and there were absolutely no "automated" HTML generation programs.</whine> <delude> In the pioneer spirit, we endure because we can!</delude> <weasel>We hand code because: We're sick, and we need help!</weasel></rant>

In closing, I'd just like to say that there is no hope for us.

The HHH "Tools for Fools" Award

The Recipients Thus Far

Title (Linked)	Award Received For
TGrad	Best HTML Text Gradient Generator Ever want to make a text gradient? You know they take less space and load faster than an image, right? But what a pain in the fanny! Well, no more. It's ridiculously easy to use, and has more features than any rational programmer would put into such a program. You'll have more control over text gradients than anyone ever thought of with this El-Cheapo shareware tool... billed as "The Mother of all Text Gradient Generators", that's no lie. Get it!
TextPad	Best text editor for raw HTML files. Powerful, extensible, understands HTML so it doesn't get in your way (for instance, it spell checks without puking on HTML tags). Good stuff, priced right. It has auto-insertion of tags, character entities, macros, action record and playback, user-extensible tools, and lots more.
CSE 3310 HTML Validator v2.5	Best assurance we don't have our heads up our butts. This is the King of HTML validation tools. Don't even bother looking elsewhere. Just get it, right now.
Picture Dicer	Best image table-izer Here's a simple tool, yet what it does saves you a lot of work. The nasty part, too. Lets you set up a clean grid-based set of cell definitions for an image, chops the image into the appropriate sized chunks, and writes out an HTML table that contains the images all packed back together into the original, but as discrete items you can use as links. They also provide an active script that can switch the images as the website visitor passes over the various table cells. Optional, of course. This is hand-coding we're talking about, after all!
WinImages	Best Image Effects Software You know there are plenty of tools out there to string GIF's together to string an animation together from a stream of files. Sure. Yawn. But what about when you want to make animated effects? And not silly (yawwwwn) pagecurls, but effects like you see in Hollywood feature films? Then this is where you go.
HTML FileTree	Best link validation tool I'm linked to... umm... yeah. What was that again? This tool provides a report of your inter-file linkages. Trying to take a page out of your website? Think you got all the links? This will tell you once and for all if its out, or not. As an extra bonus, it's designed to install as a tool for Textpad (above), so you can just hit a control key combo and zap, you've got an analysis of the whole HTML file tree. Hey! Maybe that's why it's called... HTML FileTree... ?
Pretty HTML	Best HTML formatter. Wonderful for formatting your hand coded HTML - Just a little rough around the edges. Some things, like backup file creation, don't seem to work as described, but the important part - the formatting - works very well indeed. Best of all, the formatting is very customizable.

About The Awards

You know you want one... but they're not that easy to get!

Here's the image for the award. If you've been given the award, please feel free to place it on your site, linked as a reference to this page: (http://www.blish.org/ppages/bw_hhh.html) We assume that you can manage to work it into your website, even if as a toolmaker for the intrepid HHH dweeb you're not into hand coding for the pure joy of it... Your webmaster can probably get it done for you. Sample code for this is presented next.

Sample Code

The following HTML snippet assumes that the image is in the same directory as the HTML file where this code is going to be placed, and that you've copied the image with the same name as we have it here. Feel free to change either or both; just don't change the actual image contents or the link destination. Also, make sure you copy the image to your local server. You don't want to depend on our server to show this image, as it is quite slow!

<center> <a href="http://www.blish.org/ppages/bw_hhh.html"> <img alt="HHH Tools For Fools Award" width=300 height=147 src="hhh_tff.gif"> </a> The HHH "Tools For Fools" Award (For significant enhancement of hand-coding) </center>

As shown in the code snippet, we'd like you to put something on this order beneath the award:

The HHH "Tools For Fools" Award
(For significant enhancement of hand-coding)

So that on your page, it ends up looking something like this:

Well, dang, lookie what we won!

The HHH "Tools For Fools" Award
(For significant enhancement of hand-coding)

As we've shown it here, it's in a table cell, which makes the captioning work well. Otherwise, it has to be an isolated element for the caption to center nicely, which is inconvenient, but that's HTML for you.

How To Obtain an HHH Tools For Fools award

Well, it's like this. The tool has to facilitate coding by hand. It needs to be a basic tool, suites that all but do the job for you are just what we're not talking about here (even non-WYSIWYG suites).

To win, the tool has to really add something to the job to make it easier to do (like TextPad), or more accurate (like HTML Validator), or easier to maintain (like HTML FileTree). It has to be a basic tool! If you think you've got something like that, then e-mail me here and we'll see what you've got cooking. I'm not looking for free tools. In fact, if you can convince me your tool belongs in the list above, then you've almost certainly made one more sale (to me).

Awards are given to products, not companies, so you can get more than one. Lastly, anyone is eligible for this award, even me. How's that for nepotism! :-)

And by the way... if we find you've put up this award without being on the HHH TFF list first, we'll make a new list, and you'll be on it, all right... but you won't like it...

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