I use Claris Home Page, no one has mention it, so I would like to know
peoples comments on this program...Thanks.

ED

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark
Stradling wrote:

> >>What do I need from the list? Opinions on what works best. Front Page 98?
> >>Netscape Composer? Fusion? Anyone faced with a similar situation?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for the replies.
> > 
> > Macromedia DreamWeaver is the best WYSIWYG tool you can get by far.  All 
> > the others you listed don't even come close.  Not only does it produce 
> > surprisingly good code but I for one find it the easiest to use.   It is 
> > more expensive than the others but yields much better results.  You don't 
> > say what browser is used on the company intranet but DreamWeaver produces 
> > the most cross browser/platform compatible code I have seen in a WYSIWYG
> tool.
> 
> 
> Humm, I think you missed the most important piece of information in the
> first post...that this is for Joe Public to use to publish content.
> 
> Are you really suggesting you buy Dreamweaver for everyone in the company -
> at $200 a shot or whatever it is!
> 
> Not only will it confuse the hell out of most of them, but those it doesn't
> will make 'improvements' to your templates with it.
> 
> If you are usinging Netscape on your Intranet, then Composer would be a good
> bet.  It's fairly simple to use and it's code isn't THAT bad (esp. since
> it's only the page content they will be adding).
> 
> Chances are though, you won't be usng Netscape, you will be in IE4.  Sad to
> say, but IE4 is better than NN4.5 with it's habit of reloading the whole
> page when you resize/more the NN window.
> 
> One thing you might want to consider - and this really depends on the size
> of your company and your budget - is installing a Content Management system,
> or writing one in say Cold Fusion.
> 
> This way you can have a content publishing area on your intranet which faces
> the user with a box to type (or cut/paste) copy into, along with an 'upload'
> button for ftp-ing objects (images, etc) to the web server.  You would also
> have a button for adding object to the page.
> 
> This gives you the maximim control over your pages.  The user can't
> accidentily (or intentionally) change your templates at all because he never
> actually sees them.
> 
> But this will either cost you a good chunk of money and time (to buy and set
> up a shrink wrapped system such as Vynette, Broadvision, and some others) or
> cost you a much smaller sum of money but a larger chunk of time (to build it
> yourself as a web application using Cold Fusion, ASP, or some such).
> 
> There is a lot to be said for content management systems as not only do they
> help you keep tight control of your Intranet, but you also have/can build in
> document control - so for example any documents posted to the Intranet by
> level X employies aren't immediatly visable to everyone, but an e-mail is
> sent to a level Y employie to proof read/check the page.  If the page is Ok
> for publishig they click a checkbox and the page is visable to all and
> sundry.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Mark Stradling
> 
> P.S. Sorry if the first bit reads like I'm attacking you Stéphane, I agree
> that Dreamweaver is probably the best WYSIWYG editor :)
> 

___________________________________________________________________________
Eduardo Minera Jr.
eminera(at)pratt.edu
513.831.8676

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