Re: Meta Tags <II>

O-K Fuzzy---move over before that doggoned box collapses and leaves us both
on the ground, dusting off the setting part ...

You are right--the main reason for my use of FrontPage is ... time.

Just like the analogy I used about the skill saw--you can cut a 4x4 a lot
faster with a power saw than you can with a hand saw.

And yes--Fuzzy is also right when he suggests I spend a lot of time in the
raw HTML. However, it is not so much my doubts about FrontPage's ability to
render HTML as it is my tendency to stick all kinds of eye candy and other
goodies into the pages. (At least, some of them.)

Over time, I have come to trust FrontPage to do an acceptable job with more
and more of the simple and basic HTML. So I find myself spending less time
looking over its shoulder and more time enjoying its time saving features.
One of which is that FP never forgets to close a tag. Especially helpful for
us old geezers who tend to forget why we walked into the next room.

And also--Speaking of which--one of the best time savers is the "Insert
HTML" Bot. This brings up a field that allows the insertion of raw code. FP
will leave this just as you wrote it and it displays a small yellow
rectangle in the Normal View. You can copy and paste these little yellow
critters as fast as you can work your mouse and all the code and tags come
right along with it. Super fast compared to hunting for it in the raw HTML.

As I have said before, FP, Dreamweaver, Drumbeat, Flash and others are in
much the same position that Word and WordPerfect were a decade ago.
Back then, a lot of the discussion over typesetting using hand coding versus
a WYSIWYG word processor voiced the same concerns as we now have over HTML.

As I step off Fuzzy's box I'll deliver this throw away line over my
shoulder.

"I predict that in five years or so, the use of a WYSIWYG HTML editor will
be as common as Word is now for word processing and HTML tags will be about
as useful to a web author as the code we used to use in WordStar".

Best wishes to all ...

Ted


> <Fuzzy mounting soap box>
>
> Please notice the "important" part of what Ted said (sorry Ted, I mean no
> disrespect [I couldn't resist that one!]).
>
> "UNLESS of course--someone asks FP or any other editor to do something
that
> should not be done."
>
> BINGO !! Sorry for shouting, but that's important. That backs a LOT of
> "new" HTML authors into a corner. Chances are if "they" knew what html
> would (should) and would not (should not) do, they would not be using a
> WYSIWYG editor in the first place.
>
> Obviously I need to go on to state (before my in box starts smoking) that
> there are exceptions.
>
> Ted for instance is a GREAT example. He _obviously_ knows HTML and a lot
> more pretty thoroughly, so *why* does he use it?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong here Ted (like you wouldn't do that even if I
> didn't ask :-)), but it's that all important resource - time.
>
> Again, chime in here Ted, but I would bet Ted doesn't even consider
> publishing a page until he has thoroughly scoured the raw code by
eye-ball.
> You can not do that ~effectively~ without knowing the language at a fluent
> level.
>
> Bottom line: Know thy HTML - there IS NO substitute!
> </dismounting soap box . . . with a stupid grin>
> Fuzzy.
>

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