Re: software text editors

Pippa,
Right - I agree. People think wysiwyg means what you see is what you get,
but you get a whole lot more if you don't know what you're doing & you don't
check your code. I expect she has changed alot more than just fonts - you
should see all the extranious code on her pages! The problem is that folks
think FP will do the work for you - that you don't need to know anything
about html.......
But: why bother to learn to use a tool without learning html - seems to me
you should learn html first & at that point you don't need a wysiwyg, not
when there are html editors like 1st Page (& other good ones) with alot more
control over the code. (my opinion; you know what that's worth)
Which brings us back to the question that started this discussion: If you're
using NotePad, are you wasting your client's money (by typing in every < &
/)?  I would tend to think if you're charging by the hour you're doing just
that. You really should check out some of the html editors - you'll love
them!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wigmore Pippa" <pippa.wigmore(at)knowledgepool.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: software text editors


> I apologise for this, but I really feel that I ought to respond on behalf
of
> FrontPage.
>
> Paul - the only time that FrontPage will put unwanted code in the page is
if
> you tell it to.  I imagine that your client is not overly familiar with
HTML
> or FrontPage.  The only reason that it would write code like that is
trying
> to interpret what the user is telling it to do.  I expect that he/she has
> tried to change the font in the page without highlighting text and so it
> changes the font at that point only!
>
> You cannot blame the tools if the workman does not fully understand how to
> use them.
>
> I train people to use FrontPage as well as Dreamweaver, HTML and other web
> design/development courses.  In all the cases, the product and the code
that
> is produced is only as good as the user.  Dreamweaver does enter unwanted
> code sometimes and FrontPage will write code to your specification - if
you
> know how to do it!
>
> Pippa
> P.S. Personally I use notepad, but that is just me!
>
>

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