· July 7, 2008 at 4:58 am · Writing Advice
It is amazing the keyboard combos you will run into when your fingers stumble over the keyboard trying to do something you didn’t even have in mind. Much like me, I doubt you knew either that Windows Live Writer had a "special" paste mode?
To activate it, just press Ctrl+Shift+V. Doing so will give you the option to remove all the HTML formatting but preserve the hyperlinks and images. They also have a thinned HTML option which will preserve the font sizes and text alignments but strips out all the extra CSS beyond that point. Quick tip for all you fellow Windows Live Writer lovers out there!
· August 8, 2006 at 7:43 pm · Online Tools
This is yet another handy helper to have when you are working on a Web site layout or design.
A tool that strips proprietary Microsoft tags and other cruft from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting intact. File sizes are greatly reduced, and the returned HTML is easier to read, revise and employ. This is intended for fairly basic styled text documents; there is no support for notes, sectioning, ‘widow’ and ‘orphan’ control, etc. Typographic quotes, proper dashes and other special characters, if they exist, will be converted to HTML entities to increase their portability among browsers and platforms. Links, tables and image references should come through fine. Everything else is stripped.
+ Check Out Textism: Word HTML Cleaner!
· August 2, 2006 at 9:53 am · Online Tools
The folks over at arc90 lab have come out with another neat tool. This one makes it super easy to add those little external link icons next to your links.
The fourth tool out of the Arc90 lab addresses one of those problems that every web developer has struggled with at some point: opening links in a new browser window. External Link is a script that appends an icon to external links — an icon that opens the link in a new window. Now, the user has the choice to follow the link in the current window by clicking on the text, or open it in a new one with the icon. It’s a nice, clean solution.
+ Check out some of the other lab work!
