[wellylug] CSS/HTML Gurus?

[David Murray]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Timothy Goddard wrote:

> David Murray wrote:
>
>> Would you care to give examples of "heap[s] of trash that [are]
>> incredibly difficult to [add to] in the future"?
>
<snip>

> - If you want to add a button to every page (all 100) on the site, is it
> easy to do?

Yes - very! - using templates.


> - If you want to integrate your existing page with a CMS in the future,
> is this going to be a simple task?

Yes  - very!


> - If you want to integrate complex scripts with the page, how hard will
> it be?

Very easy indeed.


> By avoiding tools like this altogether and learning to create and
> completely understand the actual markup, I can drastically simplify
> improvements in the future. Even for a 10 page site, the extra time to
> do the job properly is much smaller than the time saved in maintenance.
> I prefer to think in the long term, not short term.

Of course, Dahling, people creating websites should know what they are 
doing, and should know what the markup is and how it works.

Wysiwyg website developers - especially a good one (ie not M$ crappage) - 
make the task of producing complex websites very much easier and faster 
than using Kate.


Regards,

David Murray