John S Veitch wrote: > I've re-written pages from several sites where the government paid > big money to "top" web design companies. It's rare to find pages > that were not written in a WYSIWYG editor. It's cheap and easy to > employ a relatively unskilled person to do. It even works quite > well.
When people pay for web designers they get web *designers*. Not coders. The emphasis is on design, layout and navigation which is why a lot of web designers have a background in graphic design. WYSIWYG tools are there to abstract the design from the code. As such, the packages allow you to play around with concepts in minutes rather than hours. If you don't trust WYSIWYG you can just edit the code. Or do both at once, which Dreamweaver allows me to do: the code updates dynamically as you play around in the WYSIWYG editor. > Seriously, it's not a problem, it's untidy and I wouldn't want my > pages to be like that, but that's a personal thing. The beginner > will use WYSIWYG, but later may be less than satisfied with that > method. I agree. A working knowledge of HTML is a necessity if you want the best of both worlds. People do tend to focus more on the final result than the underlying code so clean, correct code isn't something a client is likely to specifically pay for ;) > (PS. Don't go rushing to my site for a how to do it example. My current site was mostly done in Dreamweaver but I don't offer it as an example either. The design could definitely be improved... Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
