RE: GUI vs Hand, Was: estimating the cost of building a web si te

["RUBOTTOM, AL" <ARUBOTTOM -at- SENSORMATIC -dot- COM>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bruce Byfield [SMTP:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:39 AM
> To:	TECHWR-L
> Subject:	Now: GUI vs Hand,   Was: estimating the cost of building a
> web  site
> 
	<snipt> 
> They might if anyone tries to edit the code in a different GUI
> from the one originally used. I came across this problem in my
> (mercifully brief) stint as a part-time web master last year.
> Most GUI HTML editors throw in their own little quirks, and
> running the code through a couple of different ones can create
> massive display problems.
> 
> A possible compromise are the editors for HTML code, like
> Bluefish. In these editors, you are always working with raw code,
> but you can use menus to automatically insert start and end tags,
> and dialogs to quickly define tables and forms. Personally, I'm
> starting to prefer HTML editors to both hand coding and GUI
> editors.
>