As a professional website designer I think it *is* a good idea to understand a bit of html. I admit most photographers won't want to worry about it, but is gives you an idea of what is possible and what is not.
Too often people stumble blindly into 'designing a website' and create a bloated monster, that becomes hard to maintain and harder still to view and use.
However if you want a simple way to create a portfolio website then use Photoshop or iView, where it is a matter of tweaking a template and then automating the production of it. Dreamweaver is good but it is easy to go down the path of bloat because you don't know what it is capable of.
As ever, simple (design) is good and less code is good (lowers bandwidth and is easier to maintain).
regards Richard Earney
-- http://www.method-photo.co.uk
On 11 Mar 2004, at 12:29, Keith Cooper wrote:
I recommend you sit down and learn html. You don't actually need any software if you right code. Many programs right bad code.
Knowing HTML is useful but not necessarily the best way to -start-. Learning
HTML is just too much hassle for most people. Just like mixing the chemicals
for your own developer, making your own emulsions, or being able to decode
microprocessor machine code to instructions. I've tried all three and whilst
it was interesting and fun I'd not usually recommend any as a way of
starting out :-)
Personally I use Dreamweaver to put together sites. I have rarely ever
needed to look at the actual HTML code, and in truth I don't really want to.
I'd rather concentrate on what it looks like and that it works.
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