At 01:37 PM 6/25/1998 -0500, Peter J. Schoenster so eloquently stated:
>On 25 Jun 98, at 8:30, Rainmaker wrote:
>
>> If you need to get a message across, I can help. If I need to
>> combine animated gifs, you, or Jack or Suz or Susan or Lee or
>> Brent or Gerry or Matt, or... can help (forgive me if I forgot
>> anybody). Could you learn marketing? Sure. Could I learn how
>> to combine gifs? Absolutely. But together we have a great team,
>> and we become a great resource. That's my take on FP -- a great
>> resource to be used strategically, and not for everything.
>
>Yes, FP could be used by someone like a secretary. I just cannot imagine
>someone calling himself a webmaster and using FP. If he understands the web
>(and not how MS would like to define) then I cannot imagine him using FP.
>
>I am not necessarily a programmer, nor a sysadmn and especially not a writer
>or designer but I do believe I understand computers and how they can be used
>on the web. I dislike products like FP because they fence me in. I had a
>customer who was using FP to control access to some directories. He was
>using a bunch of MS or FP speak but when he said password protect I told him
>to wait. I telnetted into the server and lo and behold there was
an .htaccess file.
>I opened it and saw where the password file was. I then ran htpasswd to add
>the user he was trying to add via FP. His world was defined by MS and FP.
>Mine was not. I have written my own cgi's to update users,passwords etc. on
>websites. I bet that FP may have a neat tool of its own to do that. But a
>webmaster should be aware of what is being done and how his tool is helping
>him. Those people who come into this business through FP will never have
>that foundation or understanding. Yet they will begin to define
what the web is;
>at least within their organization; I shudder.
>
Provided they are using FP only, I agree. FP has this strange
thing about publishing to the Net, and, if you use FTP, you
destroy the FP extensions and screw up the server where FP is installed.
Like everything else, FP has it's place and, IMHO, it's major
benefit is the way it manages links and the overall site as you
are developing. Then you strip out the crap (as I stated
before), and ftp to a site without extensions.
Maybe I shouldn't be taking the FP side of this discussion,
because it is not our main tool, and we do alter the output often.
For a newbie (who started this) it's not a bad tool. For
diehards it sucks. For a business owner, who may be more
interested in selling stuff on the Net, it ain't bad.
George
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