WYSIWYG Editor

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Quoting "Bryce C." <plug@bryceco.net>:   
   
> Thank you all.  I usually only do a few pages a month but this summer   
> I'm completely overhalling my website.  I've trried Quanta before (I use   
> it for my PHP/HTML) but now I need something that I don't have to for it   
> to render.  Something in the way of, GASP, M$ Frontpage.  I will not use   
> it though because it's a piece of junk but that's the sort of WYSIWYG   
> I'm talking about.   
>    
> Thank You,   
> Bryce C.   
> Network Administrator   
> CoBryce Communications   
> Bryce @ BryceCo . Net   
>    
   
Sounds like a summer project - learning to code by hand.;-)  
  
A big problem with many WYSIWYG editors is that the resulting code is nearly  
impossible to "reverse engineer" and you are stuck using the product that  
created the site or you have to start from scratch each time.  
  
Try redesigning the site to be more hand-coding friendly, use templates where  
you can and maybe a macro to fill in the parts that change. Run the code 
though HTML Tidy  http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ frequently to catch 
the big mistakes. 
 
Learn to code by hand, you won't regret it. 
 
Dennis Kibbe 

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