I have a skin I wish to make a few slight modafacations on namly just moving a few things around but I know very little about coding are there any tools that will allow me to open up the screen on my desk top and use drag and drop? the skin iam using uses tpl files
Somebody is asking for a Hinne Whooping!
No. You need to use a text editor like notepad to make changes directly to the code.
In the past I've seen people use like Dreamweaver and stuff like that for making a basic layout, but that's mainly been because it's how their creative process works. The problem with trying to use anything WYSIWYG for an eFiction skin is that all the content is generated by the PHP and other parts of the code, so you can't separate the skin files from the rest of the script and have anything actually show up with in the layout. So for instance instead of getting your news posts, you'd get merely {news_content} appearing in their place. (I assume. I haven't really tried it.)
I think EditPad Lite may be more up to speed if you are just doing basic stuff. They're both basically suped-up versions of Notepad with lots of extra features and better usability, allowing you to open several files at a time.
Dreamweaver may be a bit too advanced for beginners, plus it's rather expensive (unless you have a student discount).
