[plug] Web Page Editing

[Onno Benschop]

Benjamin Woods wrote:

>I need to make a webpage for my portfolio for a unit at uni (UWA: Computer
>Vision 412). I have made many webpages before, but that was before i became a
>linux user. I used dreamweaver and then edited the html manually to make minor
>corrections.
>  
>
As a web developer I'd like to point out that using plain vanilla HTML 
and CSS is these days the best way to proceed. I find that if you write 
up your page as semantic entities, that is make <div> for containers and 
structure your data, your pages will become very simple to maintain and 
the CSS will give you visual control.

WYSIWYG is a bit of an over-used concept because in web-terms there 
really isn't such a beast because the whole point is that you are 
displaying content in a device independent way.

Of late I've been using the web-developer extension under Firefox, which 
allows you to load your plain vanilla HTML, then attach a style sheet 
and tweak on the fly.

Finally, if all of this is pretty new to you, I recommend that you look 
at the http://www.csszengarden.com/ for some idea on what is possible 
with very vanilla HTML and smart CSS.

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