Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/09/07 17:48

Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <cf5cd$47348ca8$40cba7a3$12630@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>> Ed Jensen wrote:

>>> I tried doing things the Ivory Tower way (i.e., Separate content and
>>> layout!, Tables are for tabular data only!, etc.), but I found the
>>> experience time consuming and frustrating beyond any measure of good
>>> sense.
>> Maybe because you don't know your tools: HTML/CSS/JavaScript Knowledge
>> is power. Why would you expect to "build a house" when you knew nothing
>> about carpentry? And expect to be successful? Don't want to learn, then
>> do what people do when they what a house but don't want to invest in
>> learning carpentry, hire a carpenter.
>
> I have to say I am inclined to sympathise with Ed. Why should the tools
> be HTML/CSS/JavaScript? Just because Word, FrontPage etc generate crap
> HTML does not invalidate the idea of a WYSISYG approach to generating
> web pages (for example).
>

The point is if you need a "shed", a small simple website is not that
hard to do, period. There are plenty of good, free, well constructed
templates out there that all you have to do is paste in your content!
You can modify the the style as time, skill, and interest allow.

WYSISYG editors in general build poorly constructed, bloated markup,
overly positioned, difficult to maintain (where edits==rewrites), and
usually browser-specific sites.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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