Somehow my earlier reply to this went only to tedd instead of the list. I guess I need to hit "reply to all" from now on. Anyhoo...
tedd wrote: > When it comes to teaching (I do teach at college level), there are very > few students/clients who fully realize all that's involved in developing > a web site. Many think, as I've been told "It's easy -- my son learned > HTML in high school" while they are totally clueless. The most > problematic students/clients are the ones who have some experience with > HTML and think that's all there is. Gah! I hate hearing, "I need you to make a change. It's something simple, so it should be really easy." Uh-huh, and you're making that assumption based on...??? I think FrontPage, and to a certain extent Dreamweaver & other WYSIWYG editors, have created this deceptive "it's easy" notion. MS Office doesn't help with it's one-click "publish to web" options. Don't get me wrong--Dreamweaver is a great tool that I use it every day for both HTML & PHP, but I know how to hand code and I never, ever work in design mode. I like it for its organization, synchronization, and code completion abilities (I'm an awful typist). I also like the new code navigation & associated files abilities in CS4 that let me work in split view and easily jump around my code. I've never worked with the server behaviors though--that has always struck me a a very, very bad idea for someone who's still learning PHP. > http://sperling.com/web-developer.php > > http://sperling.com/four-things-clients-should-know.php Good stuff, thanks! > And lastly, none of this is static. I spend time every day learning > something new -- the web is constantly changing and keeping up with it > is a daily challenge. I was quoted a long time ago as saying: Exactly. As I speak, there's a designer on one of the forums I frequent who's insisting on letting PHOTOSHOP write his code for him, and then trying to edit it in Dreamweaver. Naturally, his designer's eye wants things to look a certain way and that's not happening because he has almost no knowledge of HTML, CSS or javascript. The positively hideous code soup that Photoshop created isn't helping. I like to "pay it forward" and help people, but only if they're will to make an effort to learn & practice. I'm not touching this one. > "I've learned something new every day of my life -- and I'm getting > damned tried of it." LOL, nice quote. Bev _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
