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Viewing SHTML Pages

         

GhostPig

11:52 am on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

Basically, I'm playing around with SHTML pages with the content being imported from a HTML page (thus making it easier for people to edit, in theory) - this is all still quite new to me, so I'd appreciate as much help as possible (this is my second question on the topic of SHTML this week)

Anyway, whilst I'm working on my pages I'd like to check to see how the look before uploading them to my websever, so is there anyway that I can view my work in progress offline?

Many thanks

dragonthoughts

12:09 pm on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Some packages, such as dreamweaver let you view simple SHTML includes, but they get lost if you have some more complex SHTML.

The best way is to install you own test server and preview it on there. Ideally, you set up a second machine to be as similar to your Host as possible. if you don't have a second computer, you can install apache or many other servers directly on yor development machine.

GhostPig

12:17 pm on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Dreamweaver can do that? I wasn't aware of that, I'll have to give it a go later - thanks!

Sadly, I've not got another computer spare at this moment in time, but will have a look at getting Apache installed and set-up to allow me to view the files.

dragonthoughts

12:43 pm on Sep 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Glad to have been of asistance.

In dreamweaver, search the help for SHTML and it will even give you instructions for using dreamweaver to insert the link as well as showing the results in the preview panel.

Dreamweaver (or at least my copy) doesn't deal with conditionals though i.e. <--#if ... -->