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

Sorry to horn in on the end of this thread, but just a small word of warning.

Version 6.0 of PhotoImpact includes a new feature which allows you to
design a web page for those that are HTML challenged. Unfortunately, Ulead
hiccupped and I *believe* that it puts in backslashes instead of forward
slashes which tends to screw things up a bit  :) 

I haven't used the feature myself, preferring the hand/WYSIWYG method with
CoffeeCup...I'm only going on what I have heard and I'm still shaking my
head in disbelief given that they manage to put together such a wonderful
graphics program. 

So if you use this new whizbang feature, just watch your step :) 

...oh and Maya if you need any assistance with PI, there are a bazillion
tutorials and assistance available for all versions at:

http://www.eastofthesun.com/

HTH

Kym


At 04:22 PM 21/11/2000 -0500, Maya Rushing Walker wrote:
>Jim, thanks for explaining your procedure.  I actually did not mean to
>instigate a debate over whether to hand-code or not...many apologies to
>everyone who is wearily trying to comb through these messages!  What I
>really did want was to see if anyone had developed a fairly workable method
>of integrating both the WYSIWYG editor and hand-coding.  I really appreciate
>your description of going to PhotoImpact for the graphics...I actually have
>that program and have never used it!  I am going to open it up and take a
>fresh look.  I see that you then import that result in your editor, and
>finalize the project by tweaking the code by hand.  My editor is so horrible
>with code that I don't know if I can do this.  But now that you have given
>me the inspiration, I think I may try.  If I can't, I may do it in the other
>direction, by cutting and pasting my own code into the editor and using the
>editor for the scripting and database stuff.  If that doesn't go well, I
>will have to switch to an editor that allows more editing of
>code...Frontpage or Dreamweaver or GoLive, I guess.
>
>What is emacs?
>
>And what is everyone's favorite method of "validating?"
>
>Thanks SO much for answering all these questions!  Cheers, Maya
>
>-----Original Message-----
><<snip>>
>First I drew out the basic design of the site, in very broad terms.
>
>This was important since I had to determine where I was going to have
>the results of queries to the database included.
>
>Then I availed myself of the design feature of Ulead's PhotoImpact 6.0
>which allows you to quickly take a graphic with differene objects
>(mouseovers, buttons, text) designed for a specific screen width and
>convert it to HTML. I upload that to a web server for the customer to
>approve, with many warning that the page downloaded very slowly, was not
>set up and optimized for search engines and that the links didn't work.
>
>Customer approved, after wanting the mouseover buttons on the right in a
>slightly darker color of red, more of a marroon, and when the mouseover
>occured wanted the text to turn yellow as well. I did that.
>
>Then I took the disparate parts of the resulting HTML and graphics,
>opened it in HoTMetaL Pro 6.0, and replicated the result in HTML that
>did not do all of the layout with sliced graphics and spacers. To get
>that designed exactly correct required that I use both the WYSIWYG
>features of HoTMeaL, but allow and expecially, the Tags On view for
>really tight tweeks.
>
>Using that as a template for the main parts of the site, I then uploaded
>the pages to the web server.
>
>Then I fired up emacs and finished out database enabling the web site
>doing the programming and some HTML by hand for each of the files.
>

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