by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:21 am
This is my take: I use Front Page 97 at home and Front Page 2000 at work. The thing is... it shows. It shows, and it shows badly. In fact, when I wanted to do something the least bit fancy (like have the text properly formatted for my "games" page) I had to ask a buddy to help me out, who fixed my formatting problem by hand.
Additionally, the layout on the
www page is one that I got from a free HTML archive. I can modify it in Front Page, but I am not sure if I could have made it from scratch.
The other thing is that I see with my eyes every day just how good Ben "Pinback" Parrish's webpages look. They are probably as good as it gets with straight HTML. I have asked him many a time just how he does it and he says that he just writes out the HTML. He doesn't use a WYSIWYG editor, and in fact I think one time he said that if I continued to, he'd punch my lights out the next time he saw me. (He also offered me a small sum of money to quit posting entirely at the same time, but that's just his thing.)
I think that ultimately the answer might come down to "you'll want to code things by hand for the best result, but if you must use a WYSIWYG editor, you should use "this" one," where "this" is any editor not named "Front Page." I've simply gotten used to FP. It's too late for me, Mike. I can't be saved. I am in HTML-Hell. You, however, can still be! I will search for better answers and post them here.
(Also!!! Congrats on that late push in the IF Fantasy Baseball League. If I had to lose the coveted 7th place finish to somebody, I'm glad it was you. OK, truth to tell if it were ctate or Roody or whomever else I would have said the exact same thing, but still. Armed with a year's worth of gettin' schooled, I am hoping that a future Sousa-Sherwin collaboration can be a 1-2 finish in that league. Heh, heh, heh.)
This is my take: I use Front Page 97 at home and Front Page 2000 at work. The thing is... it shows. It shows, and it shows badly. In fact, when I wanted to do something the least bit fancy (like have the text properly formatted for my "games" page) I had to ask a buddy to help me out, who fixed my formatting problem by hand.
Additionally, the layout on the [url=http://www.joltcountry.com]www[/url] page is one that I got from a free HTML archive. I can modify it in Front Page, but I am not sure if I could have made it from scratch.
The other thing is that I see with my eyes every day just how good Ben "Pinback" Parrish's webpages look. They are probably as good as it gets with straight HTML. I have asked him many a time just how he does it and he says that he just writes out the HTML. He doesn't use a WYSIWYG editor, and in fact I think one time he said that if I continued to, he'd punch my lights out the next time he saw me. (He also offered me a small sum of money to quit posting entirely at the same time, but that's just his thing.)
I think that ultimately the answer might come down to "you'll want to code things by hand for the best result, but if you must use a WYSIWYG editor, you should use "this" one," where "this" is any editor not named "Front Page." I've simply gotten used to FP. It's too late for me, Mike. I can't be saved. I am in HTML-Hell. You, however, can still be! I will search for better answers and post them here.
(Also!!! Congrats on that late push in the IF Fantasy Baseball League. If I had to lose the coveted 7th place finish to somebody, I'm glad it was you. OK, truth to tell if it were ctate or Roody or whomever else I would have said the exact same thing, but still. Armed with a year's worth of gettin' schooled, I am hoping that a future Sousa-Sherwin collaboration can be a 1-2 finish in that league. Heh, heh, heh.)