You can also use Artisteer to modify WordPress free templates or create new designs. I use both together. Tom Hart
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 2, 2012 9:18:28 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Ruby on Rails? Wow, Larry, thanks. If YOU think it's "not easy" then she will be as lost as a polar bear in Guatemala... I told her that I thought that Ruby was more of a "web programming language" than a website design tool, but apparently their marketing materials for this course states something like "you'll be able to design comlicated websites with no prior programming or design experience". Karen In a message dated 1/2/2012 9:01:17 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: It is not easy. Web programming is never easy but Ruby on Rails is, in particular, not easy. What it is is fast, if you understand the underlying concepts -- things like closures, function pointers, and list comprehensions. If you can handle this stuff, plus Ruby's "way of doing things". I tied Ruby once and didn't like it. I prefer Python, an equally powerful but more "explicit" language, and its various web frameworks (I recently spent some time with CherryPy, which I found excellent). > >Also, Ruby on Rails is not a design package of any type but rather a >server-side >programming language for dynamic web sites. It is not a complete solution for >web development (you still need to know HTML, CSS, some HTTP, a database >language, and probably a separate HTML templating language). > >Unless someone really wants to invest a lot of time and effort into learning >web >development, using a "generator" type product (like R: Web Suite) makes sense. > >For the design side of the equation, she could try the program Artisteer, >which >can produce some very nice designs using a GUI. >-- >Larry > > > > > >
