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Posted by Kim Andr Aker on 03/12/07 12:09
nice.guy.nige wrote:
> While the city slept, Kim André Akerø (kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com)
> feverishly typed...
> > CSS:
> > Cascading Style Sheets; a standard used together with HTML for
> > presentation and layout. This is usually placed in a seperate file,
>
> Usually (is good) but not necessarily. It can be in the head of a
> document, or you can -- of course -- style individual elements.
> Although this does kind of lead away from the road of "why css is a
> 'Good Idea'
It's usually placed in a separate CSS file, and it is preferred to do
so if you have a style that will be used more than once, but it's not
at all necessary. It'd be pretty useless if you were going to style
each individual element, but it's certainly possible. That's what the
"style" attribute is there for.
> > WYSIWYG:
> > What You See Is What You Get; a method of visually designing a web
> > page.
>
> NO!
>
> WYSIWYG is a software design concept that predates the web. It refers
> to *any* software tool that presents the information entered in the
> form that it will be output. In many respects, the other areas of
> WYSIWYG are far more correct usages, as (for example) a WYSIWYG word
> processor will present the information supplied exactly as it will be
> printed out, whereas a "WYSIWYG" web editor is probably better
> described as "WYSIWYMGIYAVVL" (What You See Is What You Might Get If
> You Are Very Very Lucky)
Yes, I agree it's a concept that predates the web. But in the context
of the topic ("Web Design and Web Development"), it describes a method
of visually designing a web page. I didn't say it was good, but people
who don't know or don't want to know what they're doing uses this
method, much to the pain of other professionals who take over the job
of maintaining a website created in, say, FrontPage or (*shudder*)
Microsoft Word.
Of the available WYSIWYMG (What You See Is What You Might Get) tools,
NVU is one of the better ones. Personally, I prefer organizing the
structure correctly using only EditPad Pro and Opera (as a visual aid,
moving on to IE, Firefox and Safari once I have a design in Opera that
also validates).
Please note that I only wrote a short description of the concepts the
OP was curious about, as I feel the OP is an absolute beginner at this.
If you'd like, you could write a more elaborate description of each to
the OP.
--
Kim André Akerø
- kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com
(remove NOSPAM to contact me directly)
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