It was thus said that the Great R. D. Davis once stated:
>
> > > >Brian Mahoney wrote:
> > I'm not really sure how to do that, I use Dreamweaver to set up the page.
>
> 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/
Received on Sun Feb 08 2004 - 01:05:20 GMT