Re: Hand-coding all the way, or...?

by "Michael Lessar" <rfd246(at)bigfoot.com>

Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:02:25 -0500
To:	"Charla & Ed Springer" <egs(at)hiwaay.net>, "Maya Rushing Walker" <maya(at)rushingwalker.com>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	rushingwalker e7j9q3
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I have been hand coding since 1995, I started on windows notepad.

I now use arachnophilia 4.0.  I guess it's a WYSIWYG Editor, but a very
basic one.  I hand code everything in.  If I am designing a html document it
allows me to see instantly what the page looks like with its internal
browser or I can link it to one of the browsers on my machine.

Mostly I use it because I am familiar with it.  I use it for basically
everything, from writing, HTML, CSS to Perl/CGI.

The nice thing is hand coding works fine, I tried Frontpage and Net Objects,
I dislike both of them.  Difficult to change the code with.  I found that I
had to look at every line just to figure out where the tables started and
stopped.  when I code especially html the document is well defined so that I
can find certain aspects of the code.

Hand coding makes you understand the coding better.

just my $0.02

Mike

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