[OT] HTML usage...

R.D. While your points are well taken (it is easy to design BAD pages using tools such as DreamWeaver), hand writing HTML is not practical for most professional web development (which I have been doing for well over 10 years). When my firm sets up a site that has over a hundred pages (just counting the "static" content) and then client say "change these logos", "move the tool bar from the top to the left", or other quite common changes, we would quickly go broke if we decided top open each of the pages and manually modify the HTML.

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 12:18 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: [SPAM] - Re: Computer Collectors List - update - Bayesian Filter detected spam 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.