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Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious
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Chromium, Firefox... if you open the dev tools, you can edit everything, with it showing in the browser in real-time (WYSIWYG).
Firefox Developer Edition has some extra tools and debugging modes, but some are redundant if you're using VS Code.
If you're looking for a Dreamweaver-like thing, where you could drop elements with minimum HTML writing... you may want to check Seamonkey Composer.
For a simple personal website though, I'd recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template, or have a template interpreter on the site, like GitHub Pages.
This is what a static site generator does.
https://staticgen.com/
(I don't know why jamstack has taken over that site, but the list itself seems to be intact.)
Not really taken over, more just a rebranding. Both are owned by netlify, started off as a list of static site generators you could use with netlify (aka all of them they could find) but then they just rebranded the site and gave it a fancy name like you have with all the other web stacks you have these days.
You can even use Markdown file and convert through dynamically using javascript through Markdeep by just dropping
at the end of the markdown file.
Dropping what?
The code block included in my comment
Seems like federation filtered it out, it shows on your instance but not on this one 🤷
I think it's beehaw doing something weird, it got federated to other instances just fine
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8687274
I second the idea of finding a way to make your website using markdown and a template, that’s what I do for https://kashifshah.sdf.org
Have made numerous mockups for devs, as a PM, that way.
When you have one style sheet for users and admins, you get creative.
At the time, building it wasn’t my problem. Explaining what needed to be built was, and the devs in question were not native speakers of same language I was.
Show, not tell, works quite well IFF you recognize immediately when it’s needed.
Copy the thing you want from where it is, paste it where it needs to be, and tweak the (easily recognisable by any human, cmon) verbiage.
I’m not a particularly visual person, so dev tools was quite useful for that. “${foreach} state, ${foreach} county, ${foreach} postal code,” here is the expected UI both expanded and not, beats hell out of trying to spec out what amounts to the better part of an RFC, especially when I am not the one actually writing the code and also not the one who came up with the straight up crazy schema.
Schema created years ago, and there’s only money to add this UI to replace an UPDATE WHERE that the boss decided he didn’t like because he didn’t “get it” and couldn’t personally do it if ever needed (literally no world where it would be needed, and boss didn’t understand the geo that made the whole thing necessary, but…. That’s life.)
(Edit: created, not ‘creates’, and FreeMarker is brutal. Things that binary work/do not work belong in code, not templates. Templates should be as tolerant as is sane given a use case. Boss wouldn’t know HTML or a variable if I whacked him over the head with a variable (length walking staff))