Re: Dinosaurs

Steven,

I understand what you are saying HOWEVER, I will never feel good about
doing web design unless I know how to fix it under the covers.  There will
always be something that has to be done special that will require someone
who knows how to hand code.  A good example of this is a church that I made
a change to their web page.  The person who initally wrote the site used a
site builder but what they wanted to do couldn't be done with the builder.
I came in and made the change quickly without having to go to another site
builder by using the old hand coding!

Roy

At 11:38 AM 3/22/00 -0500, Steven Antonio wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've just had an un-nerving experience.
>
>For the past couple of years I have become very familiar with the latest
>specifications of HTML and as a result, been able to hand code HTML and fix
>others' code fairly efficiently.  This has become a source of pride and
>enjoyment for me and a great advocate of W3C's efforts.
>
>However...... I recently was able to convert a Word Perfect document
>DIRECTLY to HTML using Microsoft Word. Then I ran TIDY on the code and had
>it clean it up to XHTML 1.0 standard.  I then ran it through the W3C's
>online validator and it validated perfectly the first time!  I never touched
>the code!
>
>Then a couple of days later, I attended a free Macromedia seminar in
>Philadelphia where they showed what their product can do.  I was very
>impressed.  They have very powerful tools that definitely expedite the
>development process and let you do things that would take forever any other
>way. All this and the user doesn't seem to need to know any code but has
>access to it from within their tools if you want it.
>
>Between these powerful tools and the TIDY program, I'm left wondering if
>their is really any need for people with the knowledge to hand code web
>pages.  If I continue with my present track will I become the way of the
>dinosaurs.  Any thoughts?
>
>Steve Antonio
>santonio(at)delanet.com
>
>

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