Not that I am trying to be exclusive or pompous, but when you start allowing people who know nothing about web page design or development to design or develop web pages, you get web pages designed or developed by people who know nothing about the process. I think it is a dangerous trend to try to make all technology available to everyone.
As a case and point: The professional secreatry is all but dead. Because the word processor is now available to everyone, everyone is expected to use it. Therefore, you now have middle executive types spending twice as long to develop documents at 3 times the cost with 1/2 the effectiveness because they really don't know how to write. Specialization is not always a bad thing. Is it so horrible to expect that if someone wants to use a technology, they actually learn how to use it. Just my $0.02. Robert J. Polickoski Senior Programmer, ISRD Inc. (540) 842-6339 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM - RobertJFP ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:19:57 -0500 >> At the risk of being a trouble maker, I just have to make this >> observation. > >> Now that we are allowed to talk about Contribute, I have to say the >> following: > > >> We have been told that MM is doing away with Studio/Homesite because they >> do not want to have more than one editing application in their application >> portfolio. I accepted this despite Dreamweaver's obvious issues that have >> already been covered to death. So what is the next application that MM >> releases? Another web editing application. > >> I might be the only one that is irked by this, or maybe not, but it seems >> very odd to me. > >I wouldn't say that this new tool is in any way a replacement for CF Studio >.. It's a web-based tool to allow non-technical ( or less- technical ) users >to edit web content... So... it really in no way compares to Studio. What >they're after is the wider audience of general, non-programmer business >users, which is an entirely different market than Studio targeted. So I >don't think it really relates (at least not directly) to their saying they >didn't want to support more than one _traditional_ editing application. You >wouldn't buy Contribute for the folks in your office currently using either >CF Studio or Dreamweaver -- you'd buy Contribute for the folks in your >office currently sending email to the folks using CF Studio or Dreamweaver >to ask them to make changes. > >S. Isaac Dealey >Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > >www.turnkey.to >954-776-0046 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm