A Cry For Help

by Dirk Hoag on Feb 9, 2007 6:30 PM EST

Are there any suggestions out there as to how best to present data tables in Blogger? Up until now, I've generally been hand-coding the HTML data in Notepad, which is tedious and prone to error (two typos noted in my shootout goaltending article, ugh). The other option I've tried is copying the data in Excel, pasting into an email, and submitting via Blogger Mobile. The problem there is that if I want to resize anything afterwards, the HTML is so cluttered that the task is nearly impossible. Instead of the width being defined at the top of the table, that attribute appears in every data cell! All I want to do is take my data from Excel, and plop it into a clean HTML table that I can format as needed, and pull into Blogger.

Help me, o internet brainiacs - is there a better way???

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Sorry, can't help you. I'm still on the first method.

by Earl Sleek on Feb 9, 2007 6:55 PM EST reply actions

I have tried to post this a couple of times, but blogger has failed me.

I have a pretty simple method of posting tables. I use a free html editor called Nvu. I use the table function to create the size of table I want, input my data, and then resize it to fit my needs. When I am done, I copy the html data between (and including of course) the table tags, and paste it in the blogger editor (and now for me, wordpress). So far, it has not failed me.

I believe I succeeded in saving an excel file as html (in the save as...) and pasting something from it. Maybe open an html excel in a browser, view it's source, and copy the table code. Something like that.

Nvu is free, and can be found by googling it. I use it as an html editor, and a little scratchpad. And considering how code dumb I am, it must be easy.

I hope that helps

by Tapeleg on Feb 9, 2007 11:37 PM EST reply actions

I always go for the free stuff online first.

I have used this:
http://www.bagism.com/tablemaker/

This looks good also:
http://www.ahfb2000.com/tablemakertool2.php?sub=gen_form

Nice thing is, there is nothing to download or install and no Registry clutter.

by Anonymous on Feb 13, 2007 10:49 AM EST reply actions