Posted by David Segall on 02/02/53 11:49

"Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com>" <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
wrote:

>If beginners begin with Dreamweaver then they'll find it very difficult
>to learn to do things properly.
This is roughly equivalent to saying that if beginners use Microsoft
Word to produce a brochure they'll find it difficult to do things
properly. They won't know that their document has embedded strings
that cause the font to change, a table to look like a table or an
image to be aligned on the left of the page.

The overwhelming majority of people only want to produce a document
that looks as they think it should. A tiny minority may need to ensure
that all the documents produced by an organisation will have a similar
appearance and/or that the appearance should be easy to change. They
will need to learn about style sheets for Word or for [X]HTML.

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