Posted by Ben C on 05/10/07 07:08

On 2007-05-09, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <2Cn0i.39$SI1.12@newsfe06.lga>,
> "Woody Dawson" <woodrowDDx@msn.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to web design and have just started an intro class. My teacher wants
>> us to start out by using notepad to create some HTML pages. Just wondering
>> why do it this way? Is it not easier to use Frontpage, etc.?
>>
>
> In most airforces, they begin training with recruits on the
> ground where they cannot kill themselves or others.
>
> The reason your teacher is doing this is - at the very least -
> because you won't know what can go wrong with Frontpage until you
> can get by without it.

Some of these analogies imply that once the novice has found his HTML
legs he can safely go back to using Frontpage. But no-one does that,
they just graduate from notepad to a better text editor. The only people
who use Frontpage are novices who don't know better.

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