[OT] HTML usage...

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun Feb 8 06:54:37 2004

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 05:25, David V. Corbin wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I know nothing about Dreamweaver - but to make changes like you
mention, won't any content management system worth its salt just let you
check out the revelvant template from the database, edit it in whatever
your favourite HTML editor is, then check it back in?

Also, presumably, such a system is independant of web server platform /
software, so you're not tied down to a particular vendor either (subject
to you not using platform-specific code for the server side and instead
using perl, JSP etc.)

cheers

Jules
Received on Sun Feb 08 2004 - 06:54:37 GMT