Re: HTML Programs

At 08:22 AM 06/28/2000, Keith D Sellars wrote:

>As a matter of fact, I did indeed learn DOS first before I progressed to 
>Windows 3.1, then Windows 95.

Me too.  But that's because I got into computers just a little while before 
Windows first appeared.  DOS was the only way to do it.

I'm glad I know a little something about DOS.  It helped me tremendously to 
be able to tweak or fix many things on my own rather than pay a techie to 
do it.

I'm one of those people who feels that a person should have a good HTML 
hand-coding foundation.  I started out doing my own coding and only 
recently started using an editor.  I confess I mostly use Netscape Composer 
now.  It's just easier to actually see what the page is looking like as I 
work on it.  But I've never yet been able to create a page ion Composer and 
upload it as is.  There's always something that I have to go in and 
hand-fix.  If I didn't know HTML, I wouldn't have a clue how to make those 
little changes.


>I guess it is my nature to learn *how things work*, which
>in the case of HTML has really helped a lot.  A designer definitely should 
>learn
>the basics first before progressing to WYSIWYG editors.  These editors 
>should be a tool, not a basis for the design of a site.

I agree 100%.

-- Sandy (still haven't figured out why Composer won't save my counter codes)
Sannicron Web Design
http://www.sannicron.com

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