Design or Type - thebubbasplace

You like to see what your HTML looks like? I guess you're one of the few designers who's never heard of GoLive or Dreamweaver.

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Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 12:41 PM PDT

Design or Type - tliv--2008

Just because a browser can display a page the way you lay it out doesn't mean it's right. There's _a lot_ more to coding a Web page properly than 'typing arcane text' - or 'putting that nice picture over there' for that matter. If this product allows you to produce proper, accessible Web pages, then great. You may have found the first WYSIWYG Web page creation tool that does this. If not, and it produces 'tag soup' (ie nested table madness complete with spacer gifs) then be prepared for some backlash from some users, and poor rankings on google et al. All the applications you mentioned being good at are for _print_ production. Not Web. Different medium, different tools.

For what it's worth, DreamWeaver (I recommend DW8) comes closest to getting WYSIWYG right as far as I have heard... and you can see/edit the code too. Heck, if you switch between WYSIWYG and code, you might even learn how to write 'in arcane text'.

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Monday, May 15 2006 @ 09:21 AM PDT