What is the difference between a sitebuilder and HTML. What are there advantages and cons and lastly, what method do you use and why in building your website...
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I would assume by SiteBuilder you mean something like Frontpage or Dreamweaver, which simply creates the HTML for you (albeit in an often sloppy and non-compliant manner) which is why I code all HTML by hand.
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Originally posted by Doctor SwoleWhat is the difference between a sitebuilder and HTML. What are there advantages and cons and lastly, what method do you use and why in building your website...Last edited by Creepshow; Mon 9 Jan '06, 5:23pm."CREEPSHOW CREEPS ONLINE" - The first & best online resource dead-icated to Stephen King & George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology classic!!!!Comment
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I personally prefer coding by hand, simply because I like my XHTML clean, organized, logical, and content-only.:)Comment
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I code by hand as well. I find that is much easier and faster to get a design out of my head and onto the web. You’re also not limited to what the WYSYWIG program can do so your creativity isn’t hampered in that respect. Coding by hand will also help you when creating dynamic websites with php/asp/etc.eqinterface.com | eq2interface.com | wowinterface.com
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Originally posted by DolbyI code by hand as well. I find that is much easier and faster to get a design out of my head and onto the web. You’re also not limited to what the WYSYWIG program can do"CREEPSHOW CREEPS ONLINE" - The first & best online resource dead-icated to Stephen King & George A. Romero's 1982 horror anthology classic!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by CreepshowBut you can use WYSIWYG AND HTML with a program such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver. So you get the best of both worlds.Congratulations on the death of vBulletin, Internet Brands.
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Originally posted by Doctor Swolewhere would be a great place to learn HTML?Congratulations on the death of vBulletin, Internet Brands.
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True. What I've found when using Dreamweaver (FrontPage is just about the most useless program ever created) is that I can start using the WYSIWYG interface as a preview, and using the split view so I can see the code as well.
But what I end up doing every single time is opening up Firefox and IE so I can preview the page in a "live" browser. If I need to make changes, it'll be directly to the code, not the WYSIWYG editor. So when it comes down to it, I'm stuck with a glorified Notepad that is taking up 50MB of memory.
When I'm coding, I almost always have Photoshop open. Depending on how many documents I've got open in Photoshop, its memory usage is almost always above 150MB. As a result, I like my HTML editing tools to be as lightweight as possible, since ALT+TAB'ing can get pretty slow if you've got Photoshop, IE, Firefox, AND Dreamweaver open at the same time. I don't use Notepad. I use Win32pad and TopStyle Pro. (Half the time I'm doing my development work on my laptop, which is running 512MB RAM on an AMD Turion-64. My desktop's at 1GB DDR400 RAM @ P4 3.4GHz, so it's not that big of an issue there. )
In a perfect world, I could just use the WYSIWYG editor and be done with it. Unfortunately, pages aren't made that easily. Dreamweaver cannot automatically detect what type of data you're entering and change your markup for you.
You need to recognize when you need to use a definition, when to use a list, when to use a span instead of a div, etc. And a WYSIWYG editor certainly cannot fix browser compatability issues for you. When a problem pops up, you either solve it by editing the CSS and either finding a workaround or a hack, or changing the way your elements are marked up in the XHTML. Stuff that WYSIWYG can't do for you.Last edited by DirectPixel; Mon 9 Jan '06, 9:41pm.:)Comment
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