On Wednesday 14 November 2007, jdd wrote: > Robert Lihm wrote: > > Yes, that's my experience, too. And that's why Dreamweaver is the de > > facto standard > > and may be it's why so many web site are destructing the company image... > > jdd >
Agreed. And in my humble experience, working in the XHTML and CSS code directly using powerful tools such as KDEWEBDEV (which contains the famous Quanta+) enables you not only to make better websites but also to make them faster. And speed is needed to minimize the costs and to survive! If I design a website, I do not play with the mouse and push some graphical impressions around. first I try to "see" with my inner eye the website - look and content and structure - which is perfect (imho) for the customer. Based on my knowledge about his business, his customers, his cultural and social environment, his corporate identity (if he has any). Then, when I know what I want - and not before - I take Quanta+ (kdewebdev) and code the HTML and CSS quickly. If the site needs more (PHP) programming than a simple contact form I use a framework such as cakephp (see http://cakephp.org). (I sat next to an Apple guru using Golive for some month, I have seen the difference in results, in both time needed and look of the sites, and last but not least maintainability of the resulting code:) While my dreamweaver or golive friends are still pushing around their mouse trying to understand why there is a gap here and there or why the site looks different in MSIE than in Firefox, I can present my customers their site, and usually it is accepted as it is. So my recommendation for her is to get a good book about XHTML and CSS. may be even the "Dummy Guide CSS Web Design", but there are numerous others, and get a tool like KDEWEBDEV / Quanta+, which gives you all support you need to point and click the HTML elements to the page. I can assure you that her sites will not only be more close to what she imagined (if she has the creativity to imagine a design, and does not depend on playing with pixels until it looks more or less OK), but most of all she will be so much faster, which is key to economical survival as a small web design shop. Just my 2 cents ... Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
