Yes, reading a book to get some theory and practical examples of CSS is
good, but I also learn plenty from examining the code generated by
wysiwyg tools. Sun's Studio Creator is another example of a good
wysiwyg tool. Studio Creator is closely coupled to Java, but it doesn't
provide near as much special effect options as Coffeecup which isn't
couple to any scripting language; although, javascript can be including
in a Coffeecup page. I haven't tried Frontpage in a long time, but last
time I tried it I was not impressed. I don't know anything about
QuantaPlus.
Regards,
LelandJ
Ted Roche wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Leland F. Jackson, CPA <lelandj At mail .DO.T smvfp.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Why not use a "What you see is what you get (eg wysiwyg)" tool like
>> Coffeecup Visualsite Designer that does CSS.
>>
>
> It depends on what you are doing. If you are building a site where the
> material is coming from a database and gets processed through a series
> of transformations, poured through a set of templates, you need to
> understand what the underlying language is doing.
>
> Until recently, I'd really been stumped on when to use a <div> tag and
> when to use a <span>.
>
> CoffeeCup, or FrontPage, or QuantaPlus isn't going to explain it to me.
>
> Once you have a good grasp of the theory, using the tools to generate
> the grunt code to get it done (provided they don't generate junk for
> code) is not a bad thing.
>
>
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