Posted by Neredbojias on 07/28/06 10:27

To further the education of mankind, jojo <jojo.hafner@gmx.de> vouchsafed:

> Neredbojias wrote:
>
>>>>>>> Have just changed all my style classes from 'verdana' to 'verdana,
>>>>>>> hevetica, arial, sans serif'
>>>>>>> and now can't see any of my pages in design view only the code.
>>>>>>> Help!
>>>>>> have you looked in the view menu? ..
>>>>> I've got it back.. suddenly... don't know how! But many thanks for
>>>>> your suggestions.
>>>> Relying on d/w is a bad way to start out learning how to make web
>>>> pages. As an aid it may have some moderate value but the real fruit
>>>> is reaped by hand-markup.
>>> I, too, use DW. But I've never (or almost never) used the "design
>>> view". I just use it because it can autocomplete tags, close them
>>> automatically, ... So it is just to save time.
>>> I know many WYSIWYG editors can do this, too, but I got Dreamweaver so
>>> why shouldn't I use it?
>>> And DW it can edit external Stylesheets automatically if you change
>>> the style of any element, can handle includes, has got a FTP client,
>>> the possibility to create & use Templates...
>>> So you might use DW, but do not rely on the code it writes if you use
>>> the "design view" without ever checking and correcting the code. So
>>> especially if you are a Newbie in HTML you should learn some coding.
>>> Can use DW, but write the code yourself.
>>
>> You remind me of dorayme. Be ye Australian or just verbose?
>
> No, not Australian, just German... But yes, I like talking... Can talk
> hours about every nonsense...

Wie gehts! Some years ago I was in Germany working on some super-size
digital video. As a system, it was the best. As a commercial product,
well... Anyway, I think the most important thing about markup is to have
fun with it. It should work, of course, but it should satisfy _you_, the
pagemaker. If it doesn't do that, it's worthless no matter how standards-
proper it is.

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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