Re: Critique of layout complexity

by "susan banta" <sebanta(at)hotmail.com>

Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:57:57 PST
To:	janet.lynne(at)worldnet.att.net, hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
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Janet,

I think the site is very well done ... and I don't see why if you comment 
the table structure carefully and the person doing the updates has some idea 
of what tables do and how they are built they will have any trouble ... most 
of HTML is really common sense and very logical if you look at it as an 
outline and the tables as a grid for positioning things ... maybe if you 
diagram the page on paper with the lines as they would appear if you turned 
on borders they would have another tool to work with ... just make sure they 
have a good tool to edit with .. like arachnophila or that they understand 
saving files in HTML from wordpad or notepad .. you would be surprised at 
how many questions I get about why they can't see their HTML only to 
discover they have uploaded a text or doc file ....

I would also point them to a good HTML tutorial .. this one fits the bill 
nicely and has a great tables tutor as well .. 
http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/

as for the center everything mode of web design .. well let them take the 
site to some free server and make a "kewl" page with a black background and 
lots of whirling penguins and looping 150k midi file of train whistles ... 
sorry couldn't resist that one ... but you know that is what that person 
really wants to do :-)

Susan
helpdesk(at)equineestates.com
http://www.equineestates.com
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