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Posted by Stan McCann on 06/17/77 11:22
At New Mexico State University at Alamogordo, we are just beginning the
process of a total redesign of our website. As the webmaster and
teacher of some of the web design courses at a school that offers a
degree in web mastery, I feel that it is important that our campus
website reflect the web development approach that we teach.
Personnally, I teach strict HTML 4.01 and feel strongly that no new
pages should be created using transitional as the time of transition is
long past. I have been reviewing college sites all over the country,
especially colleges like NMSUA that offer degrees in web development
hoping to find sites that would support my arguments in keeping with
the coding styles so often seen discussed on this group.
So what do I find? Transitional or Loose DTDs if any and table layout
everywhere! The coding used by so many of these colleges that say they
teach web development is truly disgusting IMO. Front Page and Word
documents saved as HTML, pop ups, music, and so many other things that
I have seen discussion after discussion opposing the use of seems to be
the norm. No wonder it is so difficult to find a site that validates,
doesn't use table layout, etc.
So, those of us that believe in writing valid code, seperating content
and layout, using a fluid layout, etc. are in the minority? Are we
beating our heads against a wall? Is there any use in continuing to
write valid code when colleges are churning out people developing web
sites using 10 year old methods?
I could go on as this has turned into a rant. I just am starting to
wonder: what's the point? OK, end rant.
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Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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