Re: software text editors

Ok I'll add my tiny brain's thoughts to this one too.... <grin>
As I mentioned before, I use 1st Page. It has tabs (in the "Expert" mode) to
add code so that you don't have to type it all in. Yes, I would think it's a
waste of time to code pages in NotePad or similiar text editors.
    I have never tried - & probably never will - a wysiwyg. (don't send
hatemail I'm sure Dreamweaver & others are OK) One of my clients uses
frontpage, & she gets code like this (currently on her site):
<p style="line-height: 100%" align="left"><a
href="http://www.domainname.com" target="new"><font Information and
Resources</font Agencies</font Network</font Advisory, Inc.</font
face="Bookman Old Style">Name Of  Link.</font></a></p>
HUH??!!??
Also, it frequently adds multiple font codes that do nothing:
<font face="Bookman Old Style"></font><font face="Bookman Old Style"></font>
Not only that, but FP adds *links* to Mickysoft, which incidently do not
even work!!!
    With 1st Page, you have to know the code (or at least most of it), but
it dosen't add anything you don't want. BTW you can change the settings to
add all atributes to each specific code or just the bare code. It's free but
I tried several HTML editors that were not cheap (& I was willing to pay for
one) & I liked 1st Page better.
My dangerous thoughts again....
~ Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaas De Waele" <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>
To: "'HWG Techniques Email List'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: software text editors


> It may sound weird, but I once had a customer almost stepping away from us
> because we designed his pages with a text editor from scratch.  He was
> convinced we were wasting precious time and thus his money by doing it
like
> that.  He wanted us to at least do the basic layouting with drag-and-drop.
>
> If someone would say that to me today, I'd actually agree with him partly.
> It isn't since too long that wysiwyg editors actually do things (about)
> right.  But at that time, things like FrontPage and Dreamweaver were kept
at
> a distance by most web pro's.
>
> Anyway, just my little plugin for the day.
>
>
> - Kayjey -
> www.fiatcoupe.net
>
>

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