Gazing into my crystal ball I observed windsurferLA <buczacz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Adrienne wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Dennis Kenney"
>> <islandmariner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writing in
>> news:115bolcruub6751@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>>>
>>>I'm looking for the best web editor under $50.00 WYSIWYG not an HTML
>>>editor.
>>
>>
>> Trust me, in the end you will want an HTML editor, not a WYSIWYG.
>> There are many reasons, bloat, not compatible across different
>> browsers/platforms, harder to debug when there is an error, almost
>> impossible to use if you go with server side/database.
>>
>>
>>>I'm new to creating web pages for a business I'm starting.
>>
>>
>> That's a good thing, and you should start off on the right foot. Use
>> Strict DocType and do not use presenational markup. Put all your
>> presenational stuff in an external CSS stylesheet. This way, if you
>> suddenly decide that you want all the pages to have Christmas colors,
>> you won't have to go into each and every page to do so. It's a five
>> second fix instead of a three day fix.
>>
>> You will also have been search engine results. Robots are much
>> happier when they do not have to go through a lot of presenational
>> stuff, nested tables, etc.
>>
>>
>>>I've chosen Yahoo to host the site but I'm a little apprehensive to
>>>use Yahoo Site Builder because the pages it creates only works on
>>>Yahoo.
>>
>>
>> Yahoo's Site Builder probably produces the _worst_ markup ever.
>>
>>
>>>I may want to move the site some day so I'm looking for an editor that
>>>will be independent. How would you rank:
>>>Easy Web Editor,
>>>WebDwarf,
>>>WebPage Maker
>>>Web Studio
>>>
>>
>>
>> None. Do this:
>> 1. Go to http://www.chami.com/html-kit
and download the editor.
>> 2. Go to http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle
and get either the lite
>> version (free) or the full version. Topstyle integrates with HTML-Kit
>> for editing stylesheets. 3. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/
and
>> learn HTML (not that hard) 4. Go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/
and
>> learn CSS (not that hard either)
>>
>> Then bookmark these sites:
>> 1. HTML Specification (has all the elements and attributes described
>> fully): http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
2. CSS Specificaton (has all the
>> CSS properties fully explained): http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
3.
>> Blooberry, good reference for HMTL and CSS:
>> http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/
4. CSS Zen Garden - what can be
>> done with CSS http://www.csszengarden.com/
5. The Ten Most Violated
>> Homepage Design Guidelines (2/3 of cor****ate websites make these
>> mistakes): http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html
>>
>>
>>>What features are necessary for a service web site that does not sell
>>>online.
>>>
>>
>>
>> See above #5
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for your opinion.
>>>
>>>Dennis
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>
> I'm not as cheap and would easily pay $100 for web page editor... can
> anyone recommend WYSIWYG web page editor other than Microsofts Front
> Page. Macromedia's dreamweaver would be perfect, but it is $400.
>
>
>
Using a plain text editor has nothing to do with being cheap, it has to do
with good markup, separating presentation from content, development
(especially if you are going to be using a scripting lanaguage like ASP or
PHP where a WYSIWYG will wreck havoc), and believe it or not, ease of use.
--
Adrienne Boswell
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