Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Borokowski
A 1995 website? It wouldn't, because HTML was the method most were using. A 2007 website is CMS-driven, script-operated and has a lot more content to update, as well as features that are essentially programmatic. Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: The Frame docs are all UNstructured, and I can't

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-26 Thread Chris Borokowski
A 1995 website? It wouldn't, because HTML was the method most were using. A 2007 website is CMS-driven, script-operated and has a lot more content to update, as well as "features" that are essentially programmatic. > Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > > > The Frame docs are all UNstructured, and I

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-25 Thread mc...@allette.com.au
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > The Frame docs are all UNstructured, and I can't imagine what benefit > structure would bring to something as free-form as a Web site... ;-) Huh?? It's Sunday morning and I've not yet caffeinated, but that seems like a rather sweeping statement. Obviously any big

Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-24 Thread mcarr
Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: The Frame docs are all UNstructured, and I can't imagine what benefit structure would bring to something as free-form as a Web site... ;-) Huh?? It's Sunday morning and I've not yet caffeinated, but that seems like a rather sweeping statement. Obviously any big site

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
It occurs to me that as FrameMaker comes with an 'out of the box' XHTML structured application, it might be a useful tool for prototyping web content (without any WYSIWYG) prior to export into a web development app such as Dreamweaver. Has anyone used it like this? Did it work for you? --

Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Chris Borokowski
Steve, I like your thinking, but in my view HTML code is dead except as a transit mechanism. You can to get your structured FrameMaker content into a CMS so you spend less time in FTP/HTML updating stuff that is better handled by an automated link and document manager. I'm looking along these

Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:50 -0700 23/3/07, Chris Borokowski wrote: Steve, I like your thinking, but in my view HTML codeis dead except as a transit mechanism. You can to get your structured FrameMaker content into a CMS so you spend less time in FTP/HTML updating stuff that is better handled by an automated

Re: Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:40:58 +, Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It occurs to me that as FrameMaker comes with an 'out of the box' XHTML structured application, it might be a useful tool for prototyping web content (without any WYSIWYG) prior to export into a web development app

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
It occurs to me that as FrameMaker comes with an 'out of the box' XHTML structured application, it might be a useful tool for prototyping web content (without any WYSIWYG) prior to export into a web development app such as Dreamweaver. Has anyone used it like this? Did it work for you? --

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Chris Borokowski
Steve, I like your thinking, but in my view HTML code is dead except as a transit mechanism. You can to get your structured FrameMaker content into a CMS so you spend less time in FTP/HTML updating stuff that is better handled by an automated link and document manager. I'm looking along these

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 06:50 -0700 23/3/07, Chris Borokowski wrote: >Steve, I like your thinking, but in my view HTML codeis dead except as a >transit mechanism. You can to get your structured FrameMaker content into a >CMS so you spend less time in FTP/HTML updating stuff that is better handled >by an automated

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Chris Borokowski
It's hard to keep a website updated, which is one reason many people are switching to portable document formats. I can do all the web development in my sleep, but am looking toward a next generation site that I can make portable without losing URL placement and without extensive, manual

Left-brain/right-brain: FrameMaker and XHTML

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:40:58 +, Steve Rickaby wrote: >It occurs to me that as FrameMaker comes with an >'out of the box' XHTML structured application, it >might be a useful tool for prototyping web content >(without any WYSIWYG) prior to export into a web >development app such as