OT - Webpage design

[Elowan]

I teach fellow eye surgeons webpage construction and design. I highly reccomend Homesite 4.01 or 5.

It's a hard-coders friend and only puts in what you want it to. Textpad 4 is okay but is more difficult for occasional Users.

Stay away from WYSINWYG (what you see is never what you get) editors like FrontPage. FP is notorious for putting in spaghetti code that's well-nigh impossible to come back and edit.

Dreamweaver is much better than FP and even has a button to click on to clean out FP's 'garbage cose'. But it's expensive. Homesite is a former Allaire product that has been bundled with DW for ages. MM just purchased Allaire.

There's a freebie HTML editor similar to HS called (I believe) FP2000 (or similar). Check on Tucows.

Don't let the thought of making a webpage in a 'normal' HTML editor scare you off. Once you master the principles and using a 'real' HTML editor, it's not that hard.

I'll be happy to answer email requests for help here (as long as there's not so many as to swamp the boat).

[ September 05, 2002, 16:56: Message edited by: Elowan ]