Agree'd, this is a site I just built and launched:
http://www.flashcards.co.nz/
I'm sure it's horrid HTML but I used solely Dreamweaver and the time it would have taken me to learn the HTML means I would have launched, in say, oh 2005. =)


I needed it quick and dirty, not perfect... BTW, the site is making a profit 3 weeks after launch so I am not complaining...

Cheers

Jason

Peter van Hout wrote:

I could response to Michael JasonSmith about the 'real world' but I will hold my breath.

Peter van Hout

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:40 a.m.
To: linux users
Subject: Re: Web Page Authoring Software


On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:33, Peter van Hout wrote:



I will start moving some of my stuff over from XP over the weekend but
I�m looking for WYSIWYG web authoring/design software.


[Breathe, Michael. In... out... in... out...]
<rant flamesuit="on">
1. True WYSIWYG is impossible for Web authoring as you have *no* control
  over the user's browser.
2. WYSIWYG does not work for the blind.
3. WYSIWYG completely misrepresents how the Web works.
</rant>
[Must.. answer... question...]

As far as Web authoring software goes, I use the XML mode in XEmacs,
which has context-menus for all the tags and attributes.  To keep myself
sane I stick to "XHTML-1.0 STRICT", which has surprisingly few tags :)
If the document is complex I tend to write Docbook-XML [1], and convert
that to XHTML using "xmlto".  Docbook is excellent for writing technical
documentation, but the number of tags is huge [2].

I find structure easy to think about, so the visual tools hinder me more
than help (your mileage may vary).  The Raggett Guide is a good start if
you want to learn how to create HTML by hand [3].

[1] http://docbook.org/
[2] http://makeashorterlink.com/?J59B225E4 [oreilly.com]
[3] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/







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