Posted by mike flugennock on 02/20/07 13:00

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> mike flugennock wrote:
>
>> I've been using -- or using and struggling, still -- with Dreamweaver
>> and its attendant learning curve. I'm sure it'll be like learning
>> PageMaker and Illustrator in the ancient times; I'll bang my head on
>> it for months, and then one day, epiphany.
>>
>> That said, Dreamweaver is the first thing I've used that even comes
>> close to a proper Web layout equivalent after six or seven years of
>> fighting with several versions of PageMill, and the wretched html
>> conversion module in PageMaker 6.x.
>>
>>
> If sinkers.org is your product of your efforts then "close" is not what
> I would say...

Actually, sinkers.org was originally built about ten years ago with a
combination of HotMetalPro (just OK) and the HTML module in BBEdit (way
better); both were pretty much the HTML equivalent of hand-coding the
PostScript for a print layout.

I've spent some months experimenting with Dreamweaver, getting
comfortable with it, so that I can pull down the old sinkers.org design
and design something a little "leaner" and not quite so graphics-heavy.

And yes, it is a pretty simple site, as I'm a designer and not a
programmer, so I wanted to design something that mainly focuses on the
artwork, fotos and video pieces and not fancy code tricks, and which I
can revise/update pretty much in my sleep.

When designing sites for actual clients, I work with a team of coders
and programmers who I'm in close touch with, as I used to do (and still
do) with print-shop crews back in the ancient times.

--

..

"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

--grateful dead.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
"Mikey'zine": dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

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