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Posted by dorayme on 08/15/07 10:08
In article
<1187169426.781459.76110@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 14 Aug, 22:17, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > the point is essentially
> > about some hard work for average people whose ambition is not a
> > job in website making.
>
> People who have no ambition to write websites shouldn't (and shouldn't
> have to) write whole websites.
>
> Instead they should just write HTML content, based on pre-built CSS.
> They're going to do better by writing good, clean HTML 4 than they
> used to struggling through the arcana of getting a 3.2 layout to
> behave. Even people who don't want much from a site can still have
> high standards for appearance, accessibility and cross-browser
> function.
>
> These days I recommend that people write wiki or blog content instead.
> Their need is "to publish on the web", not necesarily "to publish with
> the raw web tools".
Very well. They should "just write HTML content...good, clean
HTML 4". And go to somewhere or other for templates and host
somewhere or other, blog or not or wiki or stickie. Fine!
Let's settle this. Mr or Mrs Smith want to have a web page or
two. What do you want to know about them before I ask you for
detailed instructions on what they should do short of hiring
someone to do it for them?
And be careful to ask questions whose answers are not so
particular that you will tailor the recommendation to suit, the
slightest change in their requirements would cause you to give a
different recommendation and so on. Remember, you, as an expert,
are not going to be around for all the Mr and Mrs Smiths. And
they, as sure as hell, are not going to know what the best route
is.
This whole thing is a dog's breakfast and there are no magic
bullets.
It is not the business of an association of mechanical workshops
to recommend ways to the public to home repair a car. It is
unlikely to be anything they have enough interest in to make
sensible and general recommendations for all folk, all cars and
so on. I completely distrust almost every optimistic statement
any one here makes about this matter. I have seen too many folks
struggle and if they use Frontrage, if they use Dreamweavil or
any of the many programs or facilities, I wish them the best of
luck. That is the best we can do, wish them the best. I now raise
my glass, it is a 2001 Cabernet, and not too bad, to you Andy.
--
dorayme
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