Any potential problems with web page programs?

[Doc]

I bought the Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page to teach
myself HTML & website creation but while going through the learning
curve want to get a page up and running. So, I also got Webeasy Pro
since I sense it'll be a while before I'll be able to do anything
sophisticated doing it by hand coding.

Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?

Thanks!

[Davmagic com]

Re: Any potential problems with web page programs?

>From: docsavage20@yah oo.com (Doc)[color=blue]
>Anyone here ever encountered snafu's
>when running a commercial website
>generated by a program as opposed to >hand-coded html?[/color]

Why put the cart befre the horse? Start building right away by hand
coding and forget any html programs... the only way to learn html is by
digging-in and failing, then do it again......... til you learn it
right!

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[Owen Jacobson]

Re: Any potential problems with web page programs?

Doc wrote:
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> Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
> generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?[/color]

Mainly really tremendously grotesque HTML. Whenever you're using an
HTML-generating tool, keep your validator of choice nearby and use it
frequently.

[Barbara de Zoete]

Re: Any potential problems with web page programs?

Doc wrote:[color=blue]
> Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
> generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?[/color]

_The main problem_ with programs for creating html pages is that the
user learns the program in stead of html. Learning html should be your
goal, because than you can create pages that are smaller, cleaner, well
rendered across (newer) browsers etc. Learning a program can never do
that for you.


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[Eric Jarvis]

Re: Any potential problems with web page programs?

Doc wrote:[color=blue]
> I bought the Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page to teach
> myself HTML & website creation but while going through the learning
> curve want to get a page up and running. So, I also got Webeasy Pro
> since I sense it'll be a while before I'll be able to do anything
> sophisticated doing it by hand coding.
>
> Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
> generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?
>[/color]

depends what you mean by commercial

if you have an existing successful business with a large scale non-
Internet marketing programme and simply want the web site as an additional
brochure then you can get away with it

if you actually want to get new business through the site then you will
NEED it to be search engine friendly...in which case you can either use a
program to create the site and then pay for an expensive SEO consultancy
to hide its faults...or you can do it properly in the first place

if you are hosting the site on your own servers and have bandwidth to burn
then you can get away with automatically created html...as you can if you
have no intention of ever having any significant number of
visitors...othe rwise you'll find that even the best programs generate
around 30-40% of redundant mark up, which means around the same amount of
bandwidth wasted

above all ask yourself this...do you really want to make something
sophisticated and complex before you actually know how the basics
work?...how are you going to deal with any problems with it?

learn to get the basics right first...it'll save time and money in the
long term

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[Daniel R. Tobias]

Re: Any potential problems with web page programs?

Doc wrote:[color=blue]
> Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
> generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?[/color]

Some relevant discussion:

http://webtips.dan.info/wysiwyg.html

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