I've been giving CSS a go, but I'll tell you, I found it to be too laborious trying to figure out how to make everything work at all, then trying to figure out all the hacks for different browsers, etc.
I joined the CSS-discuss list, which is a lot like this one, but most of the time those guys were talking about how to make something work with Opera or others browsers which I don't really care to cater to. Don't know how good it'll be, but MS has a Expressions Web Designer in beta that I've looked at. It's supposed to provide automated CSS layout. Didn't try it... I was just trying to figure out if I wanted to bother with ASP.Net 2.0... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Would Dreamweaver help the transition from CF 4.5 to CF 7? I hand code everything. And I'm not trying to sound snobby when I say that, really, I just have never found a good enough tool that creates easily maintainable, clean html code. They all add in shims that are nearly impossible to deal with maintenance-wise, unrecognizable image names, the list goes on. Most code generators also create quite un-search engine friendly code, which is a huge part of our business. I can't tell you how many sites we've basically rewritten that were created with CS, DW, and ::shudder:: FrontPage. Also, we're creating more and more CSS-based layouts, which, as far as I know isn't something that code generators have figured out how to do yet. Rick Faircloth wrote: > But hand coding HTML just seems like building a car from scratch just > because I want to add some options... > > Code generators, when they generate code that works well, even if it's > not as clean as it could be, are just so much faster when I'm working > on a design interface. > > Do you write all your code, HTML and otherwise manually? Or do you > use anything that generates code? > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:38 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: SOT: Would Dreamweaver help the transition from CF 4.5 to CF 7? > > James Holmes wrote: >> People will heap rubbish on it as usual but to me it's indispensable. > > I liked DW, but it was just so damn slow and resource hogging. And > yes, I went through all the diagnostics with several people here, > there is nothing wrong with my machine. I know several people, > including two in my office, who have the same issues with DW on their > home and work computers. Now, I dunno if 8 got any better, since I > stopped using it after 2004. HomeSite+ rocks, IMO. But, I suppose, > if you need a WYSIWYG, then DW prolly is the best way to go. > > Hand-code, Rick! WYSIWYG is for high school kids. :) > > -- > ~~~ Ray Champagne :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243755 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
