[TxMt] HTML bundle

[Mats Persson]

On 29 Mar 2005, at 04:50, spam at minimaldesign.net wrote:
> Hi, I'm new here so be gentle ;)

OK, we'll send in the heavies another day then ;-)

> I own BBEdit, I'm trying out TM for the first day and I'm super 
> impressed by everything I've tested so far...

Great, but wait until you've used it for 100 days and is still 
impressed by the app. That's when you're truly impressed ! ;-)


> So I go on the WIKI to look for a killer XHTML bundle with all the 
> macros, snippets, and what not that would be useful for basic XHTML 
> web design but I can't seem to find anything else besides the bundled 
> bundle ;)  I mean...  it's enough to understand how it works and get 
> me started in creating my own, but it's going to take me forever to 
> add every tag snippets, etc...

Hmm, you're right, the HTML bundle looks a bit neglected right now. 
I'll do some work on adding a bunch of basic snippets to it a.s.a.p.

I guess, why I - and perhaps other users - haven't noticed it, is that 
I have created my own snippets along with my basic workflow. So instead 
of having a snippet that does a basic <div...>...</div> type of thing, 
I have a snippet that does:
<div id="header">
...my normal header content...
</div>
  and so on for my normal building blocks. A bit hard to explain, but I 
hope you get the idea.

The key thing here is to "Think different" and look at the bigger 
picture of your workflow. So to do a simple html page, I basically type
divHeader[tab]
divBody[tab]
divFooter[tab]

plus a few tabs within each snippet to add the bits within them. 
(Simplified example only, without the internal content in the div's)

> I'm not too big on reinventing the wheel and, although I understand 
> that TM is not specifically geared towards web developers, I'm pretty 
> sure some other web designers out there must be using TM as their 
> editor no?

I will post you some of my bundles off-list and then you could have a 
look at them. Perhaps you could also tell me (us) what bits are still 
missing after that to make a killer XHTML bundle in your mind ??


> thanks for any help :)

You're welcome ! Hope you'll help us make TM better as well ;-)


Kind regards,

Mats

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