Re: Framemaker to HTML or use Dreamweaver?

[Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>]

Laura Winkelspecht wrote,
>>My department is beginning to move a lot of our documentation to our 
intranet. We need to decide the best way to do that. Currently we use Word 
97 for most of our documentation. Our web coordinator uses Dreamweaver to 
manage our site. We can convert our Word docs to PDF, but we also want some 
HTML documents. Our other most viable option is to have everyone use 
Dreamweaver to create HTML docs.<<

You can create HTML docs from Word docs and use Dreamweaver to clean up 
Word's HTML and do final layout. There are some things you can do in Word 
to make this conversion easier, but in general it's not a big drama and it 
is easy to do, at least with Word 97 and Word 2000; I don't have Word XP so 
I haven't tried it.

John Cornellier said,
>>With Dreamweaver you are working on presentation first, content second. <<

I say, not necessarily, though many people do it that way. If the website 
designer uses DW templates (as they should), authors can write content 
outside DW, then they or the website coordinator can apply a template to 
the content. That's the way I manage my websites. Done properly, a website 
maintained in DW using templates can be given an entire new look and feel 
very quickly by simply applying a new template to all the pages. The 
website designer pays attention to the presentation; the writers pay 
attention to the content.

Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
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