Use SharePointDesigner here to quickly and cleanly edit legacy static web pages

2012/10/23 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

Confronted with the need to have faculty classify my variable speed animated GIF collection of Mandarin characters linked from static HTML pages, I find:
SharePointDesigner is a FrontPage derivative, but still beats dealing with the special markup MS-Office tends to smuggle into your legacy web pages.
And you can download it for free from MS here, install and open a file by right-clicking it and “Open with”, like so: .
User then can e.g. select a pinyin word, right-click it, access the font-dialogue, like so: , and, to align this alphabetic pinyin list to the progression in the syllabus if the Chinese language program, assign a heat-scale like so: . E.g this would denote an easy character for Chinese 101: .
Note 1: Do not use SharePointDesigner 2010,, this doe not allow easy editing of single web pages anymore: .
Note 2: The CSS style markup that SharePointDesigner puts in smartly for the font color change is ignored by Internet Explorer 8 (Huh?!), so we will have to TBA:ask students to use Firefox instead.
Note3: Why not just use MS-Word as HTML-Editor. Even if you save as and choose “Web-page filtered, like so: , to avoid MS-Office specific markup, MS-word puts spurious markup in that makes it not only slow down the road to open the file, but also difficult to post-process them with regular expression (I have a few hundred copies to make for different animation speeds). Compare the file sizes here: