KompoZer, Super Speed Demo!

[relithiphop]

every other tutorial of kompozer made me wanna shoot myself, thank you for this video.

[richinaclick]

Hi great video again, if you want to learn more about komopZer not as fast as this but fast and easy to learn I think my videos is the one you should view only if you want step by step otherwise if you want a quick fast video you are watching a fantastic video I will admit I learnt quiet a bit out of this video

[Tonyuprm]

Great video! Lots of help!

[wwwADAMSPADEcom]

Kompozer is a great way to learn html... very clean. Looking forward to see how much it advances over the years.

[manzilla86]

Thanks for the nice tutorial. I know you called it "super speed demo", but it should have been called, "The speed every fricken tutorial should be." I just wasted 20 minutes before this watching some dude explain how to make the text bold, underlined, etc. I thought he was going to get somewhere, and then it ended! If you don't know how to bold a fricken document why are you building websites!!!

Sorry about the venting.

[joshthomas80yt]

@manzilla86 hahahaha. Thanks. If I had any idea that this video would be so popular, I would have done it much better. But perhaps that's part of its allure. I put this up two years ago when all I knew about the internet was what was shared in this video. Anyway, much has been learned since. Let me know how I can help.

[EdSantilli]

This is a nice little tutorial. Better than most of the videos people are posting. If you want it to be better, you should remove your face from the bottom right. It's only there for vanity purposes and gets in the way quite often.

[joshthomas80yt]

@EdSantilli thanks for the feedback. I agree with you. Alas, I created this video in my IM infancy, and unfortunately, it's withstood the test of time. :)

[SirTomTrouble]

Hi Josh,

Seems it wont let me post my link here.

But if you can answer these issues for me detailed on only video on tom4nz channel

youtube.com/watch?v=7DVfgRYV7F­A

we are well on the way to doing business.

Cheers Tom

[joshthomas80yt]

@SirTomTrouble The best way to control everything on an HTML page is to edit the source code itself. WYSIWYG editors are cool, but browsers read HTML code, so that is where it's at.

At the bottom of the Kompozer window, you will see a set of tags which tell you the exact part of the code you are editing when you select something on the screen. Click the "Source" tab, which looks to be at the bottom right on your video and make your changes in there. Hope this helps, I'm out of space to respond.

[androgenix]

Got the new kompozer release... 0.8b3 ... They fixed HTML-frames now. I know it sucks (and thats why the kompozer team hesitated to put it in) but i could'nt edit old webpages because kompozer couldnt read them. Now i can. I dont need dreamweaver anymore because kompozer is just as good. Awsome peace of software, should be the default software for all webdesigners!

[KissSinister]

@androgenix ya but Dreamweaver is way better. ^.^

[entyceit]

can u attach a flash or dynamic html?

[joshthomas80yt]

@entyceit Technically speaking, you can do anything with Kompozer that you would do in Dreamweaver. The difference is that Kompozer is open source (free) and may not be quite as slick or user friendly all the time. But it's also not $400.

[1ServantofThor1]

O man, you should learn to use css, way better than a layout with a table. Not to hard to by hand but i'm not sure about in kopozer

[GMTdad9095]

Great video Josh! I learned more about how to create a website in this 9 minute video than if I spent $100's on ebooks etc. I'll definitely be buying your tutorials whenever I feel like I need them. Probably if I experiment with CSS

[14Marcuss]

Hello, great video btw. i just wanted to say i have desgined my own webpage using Kompozer BUT i accidently pressed revert on the tab i was using andnow every time i try to open it, it appears with no iamges, no background etc etc,... please help ?

[joshthomas80yt]

Seems like you may have erased your progress then saved it that way. You may need to start over, unless you had a back up. That's a bummer. I hope there wasn't too much invested in that page.

[reachurdreams]

thank you josh.

how can I make sub menu?

[joshthomas80yt]

Hmmm. That's a good question. I know it is possible, but a little more difficult using straight HTML and out of my realm, to be quite honest. I've found it easier to do the more complex Content Management type stuff with Wordpress. On there, submenus can be created and arranged with a couple of clicks. Maybe try the "Kommunity" and see if anyone can help you there.

[robyr77]

hey Josh,,,

Just stopping by and say THANKS for your videos....I am a newbie in the building website world, and your videos are very helpful!! thank you, keep them coming!!!!

[joshthomas80yt]

Awesome! Be sure to check out our new "Kompozer Kommunity" by visiting the link in my description for more help.

[tallabas]

I would love to try Kompozer but have tried to no avail to download it. I have Windows 7, is that why I am having problems?

[joshthomas80yt]

hmmm. Not sure about that one, but it's certainly possible that they haven't made an upgrade for it yet.

Windows kind of creeps me out a little anyway. :) j/k

[richardasamoah90]

thank you very much josh, i'm really moving on well with your tutorial!!!

[joshthomas80yt]

Cool! Glad it's working for you.

[elieobeid77]

hey thanks for the tutorial...I have published my first page but how to publish a second and third one?...

[joshthomas80yt]

Create a new blank file and save it as (something else).html

You can just go to the file menu and select "New".

To connect them, you'll need a navbar.

[elieobeid77]

@joshthomas80yt thx man yesterday i didn't watch the hole video cuz the internet connection was too slow but today I watch and I see that you have already told people how to create a second page. In fact you are the only man on the internet who tell people CORRECTLY how to publish a second. I search the internet and youtube and all I found is lessons on how to publish the first page which is pretty easy. And you are the only one on youtube to answer the questions of people thanks a lot :P

[RabinoBoricuaVirtual]

Great tutorial Josh! Love your Apple screen casting program effects. Keep up the good work!

[joshthomas80yt]

Thanks. I use screenflow. WELL worth the 99 bucks if you do a lot of these things.

[fatsotomuscles]

When I publish my page, everything is there except for the image. need help please.

[joshthomas80yt]

Are you publishing to a server? If so, have you uploaded your images to the server? your browser accesses images just like other files, so they must be available on your server in order to appear on a published page. Hope this helps.

[fatsotomuscles]

I just FTP'd the image I want to my hosting server. Now how do I get the image onto my website?

[joshthomas80yt]

You'll need to type the path into your source code. The path will vary depending on where your image is stored. Another thing you could do is place all images into one folder on your desktop and insert them into Kompozer using the given tools. THEN, upload the folder to your root directory and no extra work is needed. If that doesn't make sense, sorry but my brain is mush at the moment. You're welcome to email me.

[maw88ify]

And if you highlight two cell using the the mouse then right click you can Join Selected Cells, I use this in Linux, many of the free tool that Mac uses was first made for Linux... I also have BlueFish for Linux... :)

[maw88ify]

Sorry just look up BlueFish Editor

[matteraze]

how did you do that ur links go from normal to italic when the cursor goes over them?

or make any other effect?

great tutorial, keep it up!

[benttwig33]

Event hought its a pretty decriptive site, you need to show us exactly what your clicking on when your doing stuff.

[austinhomedatabase]

That is an odd problem. Make sure you have downloaded the correct version for your OS? Sometimes uninstalling and reinstalling takes care of little bugs in the software. Perhaps try that. I'll admit, Kompozer can be a bit of a diva. Good luck.

[jaxtrax2]

Hey, I'm starting a website and I decided to work with kompozer when it comes to design. I saw you've made tutorials with it so I thought you might be able to help me.

My problem is small, but very important.

I can't get the progam to start.

I've downloaded it and I've gotten all the folders...

but I have no idea how to start the program! please help, Jackie

[enzogianvittorio]

Fantastic I like a lot this program!! Kompozer rocks !! well done guys.. !! long life to open source software !

[joshthomas80yt]

Rock on, Rokodo! The tutorial videos pretty much walk you through how to use tables effectively. Once you get the hang of them, tables are a great way to keep your page organized.

Thanks for the compliment on my site.

[RokodoRL]

Thanks Josh! I always had a problem when trying to use tables effectively but I like the look of your website. Before, making a site from scratch seemed complicated; and you're right: free templates are very constricting. Now I can make my own sites.

[geofan49]

THIS is a nice demo, but a very poor tutorial.

[ARVINDRNIGAM]

great job Josh,

I will have my kids email you so you can mentor them

Regards

arvind

[joshthomas80yt]

Hey Folks. I appreciate the feedback I'm getting on this video. Please check out the video response above for a little more clarity on exactly what this video is about and how it is different from the tutorials I mention.

[joshthomas80yt]

Thanks for the comment. Mostly, the point of this video was to show how easy it was to create a functional website in KompoZer. I watched it again and noticed that the top menu bar in fact was cutoff. Sorry about that (a little disappointed at the loss in quality after publishing, too).

The two or three times I clicked off the page, it was "Format" "Table" "Insert".

I think I've now figured out a better way to publish my screencasts so they don't lose so much quality.

Good luck to you!

[magicianspirit]

Instead of saying "we're going to do this and this and this," you should say what menus you're getting your commands from because the top of the screen is cut off and we can't see what you're doing.

[rbz991]

its called common sense... i had no problem with that. It just take a few clicks to realize what he was doing... nice demo btw ;p