Well as far as standards are concered hand coding is the way to go, there just no tools out there that are good enuff to use...
Sure Dreamweaver and other now markup there code 100x Better than the earlyer versions and also will make your code compatible, but still in a restrictive way. Also its so much quicker to develope via hand coding once you know it. I started off with Dreamweaver 2 and soon found myself in code view more then design view. Still to this day do i use Dreamweaver to code, but ive not even looked at any of the extra feature in it all i use is the built in ftp/file manager and code view.. and i wouldnt change it for the world, unless homesite had the ftp/file manager that Dreamweaver has Mark Harwood zinkmedia.co.uk ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
