WYSIWYG Editor

Tom Achtenberg plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:45:50 -0700


And don't forget to use include files!

On Sunday 09 June 2002 09:10 pm, dennisk@sahuaro.f2s.com wrote:
> 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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