On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stoned Design wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites.
> What do people use on this list?
I just use my favourite text editor.
I find with a little effort to learn the tags, (the basics easy to pick
up, it's worth looking at page source to see how they do things), you can
do some wonderful stuff.
Doing it by hand means your more likely to produce something that degrades
well, and doesn't try to force the page to look exactly how you want it.
(The Sam Coupe Scrapbook was all done by hand, except a few lists which
were produced using a script, but the template was hand done)
One of my friends had a lot of trouble with some design program. I sent
him an email with some basic help in, and since then he's been a "by hand"
convert as well, just using a designer to work out things like tables.
I wouldn't pay for a product either, You see to get a lot dished out for
free with various magazines, (and presumably download).
HTH,
Tim
