[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

2002-07-30 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
> From: Anthony Atkielski > > Both [Frontpage and Dreamweaver] generate garbage that passes for > HTML. It is almost impossible to pick > apart if you ever want to modify it yourself, and I think they > designed the software to make it that way deliberately. As long as it produces the correct re

[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

2002-07-30 Thread barry
] RE: Web home page writing software Much of what you say is true, but I have to take issue with one thing. Writing in HTML is equivalent to programming in assembly language. If all you want is a small web site, with no dynamically generated content, then write in HTML, and manually find and fix the

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-07-30 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Paul writes: > As long as it produces the correct results in > a web browser, who cares? True, but it won't. The junk generated by web-design software contains mountains of code, often lots of scripting as well, and if you don't change it carefully, it will break; the results will _not_ display

[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

2002-07-30 Thread Robert Meier
> -Original Message- > If you want even a medium-sized > web site, then you'd be crazy to do it in plain HTML, because the > amount of > repetitive typing would be prohibitive, and the number of needless bugs > would be enormous. Well, I write my own HTML and scripts BECAUSE I want to r

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-07-30 Thread Shunith Dutt
Alex When it comes to doing the html don't use FrontPage... it's really crap... use Dreamweaver MX but that's several hundred dollars... there are a number of free html editors out there which are pretty good one that comes to mind is 1st Page 2000 by Evrsoft... you can download it at www

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Atkielski
SD writes: > ... notepad is the best... but is it worth > th hassle and the learning curve? Doubt it ... There is no hassle. It takes a few hours to get used to writing HTML. You can learn it in an afternoon. Learning Dreamweaver might take days or weeks. And the cost of a full copy of Drea

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-07-31 Thread Shunith Dutt
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software > SD writes: >> ... notepad is the best... but is it worth >

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-07-31 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Paul writes: > But look at most professional web sites. They're > full of nested tables, not to mention frames, plus > little fragments of javascript for special > effects, hit counters, etc. No, they are not. Professional sites contain only the HTML required to do the job; amateur sites and wa

[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

2002-07-31 Thread Julie Cooke
can post it. Julie http://www.lightdrawing.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: 30 July 2002 23:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software Notepad is the best tool for building a Web

[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

2002-07-31 Thread Julie Cooke
] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software Paul writes: > But look at most professional web sites. They're > full of nested tables, not to mention frames, plus > little fragments of javascript for special > effects, hit counters, etc. No, they are not. Professio

[filmscanners] Re: Web home page writing software

2002-08-01 Thread
> I've added some Javascript to all my pages to prevent people saving the > images by right clicking 'Save picture as'. This works on Internet Explorer > and the Netscape on Windows. I haven't tested this on a Mac, if anyone could > let me know if it works. If people are interested in the code, I