[plug] Web Page Editing

[Alex Nordstrom]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:04, Onno Benschop wrote:
> Benjamin Woods wrote:
> > 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.

Agreed.

> 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.

Not to mention that I have yet to see a program for visually designing 
sites create code which validates against http://validator.w3.org/ and 
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

> 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.

I'll just throw in a recommendation for http://www.alistapart.com/ here.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
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