8 Feb
2004
8 Feb
'04
1:05 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great R. D. Davis once stated:
A good example of useless software. That explains why so many web
pages are created which older browsers can't use, for no good reason.
I can't understand why anyone who isn't mentally retarded would even
want to use software to design web pages instead of relying upon their
own brains.
It's much easier to just write all of the HTML by hand. That's what I
do, unless I have a need for dynamically generated pages, in which
case I write the Perl or javascript by hand that generates the
dynamically generated code. It really isn't that difficult to learn
HTML and some very basic javascript, since there isn't much at all to
learn for the basics. What takes the time is deciding on the overall
site and page design itself, not the technical details. Writing the
HTML doesn't doesn't take long at all (actually, it's probably faster
than fooling with that annoying software used to create web pages) and
it will give you much more flexibility. Try it, you'll like it.
Possibly.
My website [1] was originally hand written [2]. The problem I had was
adding new pages to the site. For instance, adding a new about page (with
new self-portrait) required creating a new file (which usually was a copy of
the previous page and then edited) plus editing two or three other pages.
Tedious and somewhat error prone; forget about changing the layout or even
updating the HTML to something more modern (original site [2] was HTML 3.2,
new site [1] is now HTML 4.01 strict). I have over 140 pages to edit if I
want to change the look.
Talk about tedious.
So I spend about a few weeks total convering my site to XML (pretty much
contains the content only), then writing an XSLT file to create all the
pages from the XML file, plus add the navigation links. Now it's easier to
add pages to the site; heck, it's easy to add whole new sections to the
site.
But XSLT is *not* an easy thing to work in. Over 1,000 lines of ... code
... to implement an automated way to add new pages.
-spc (Now a bit easier to change the look of the site ... )
[1] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/
[2] http://www.flummux.org/spc/
>Brian
Mahoney wrote:
I'm not really sure how to do that, I use Dreamweaver to set up
the page.