[Jewelry making - Article 00345] - Re: [Orchid] Website development suggestion

[John Donivan]

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>     Granted, I was already a bit of computer programmer, but really,
>     truly, HTML is simple. I had a "how to" sort of magazine that had
>     me open WordPad, type in a few lines, and then see what I'd
>     created. My reaction was, "What?! I did that with only that little
>     bit of text?!" 

    Thank you, Lisa, for the voice of reason. I've been active on this
    thread because I'm probably in the perfect place to talk: I decided
    to do a website (being extremely computer savvy is part of it, in my
    case), so I gathered the tools, read some books, and made a web site
    from scratch - then I did it again, now I SHOULD (and will) do it
    yet again. In other words, I speaking from having done the learning
    curve, but far from professional. I'm not saying, nor did I ever
    say, that's there's no use for code. What I said, and again, is that
    a newcomer doesn't HAVE to know code in today's world - they'll have
    do know enough about it to do debugging and such, at least, though.
    I don't just think Dreamweaver is a good resource for the serious
    web designer, I think it's one of the finest programs of any kind
    ever made - ease of use, features, docs, interface, "the driver's
    seat." One of the nice things about it - most likely other programs,
    too - is that if you draw a table or anything, and highlight it and
    hit the code tab, the code for your table is highlighted front and
    center. Also vice-versa - highlight the code and in the other view
    that element will be highlighted. Plus it has on-the-fly debugging
    and syntax checking - and a library of clips. It permits complete
    freedom in website design - code, graphical, both. I was a little
    put off, and curious why, too, some writers chipped in with stuff
    like "you have to have a full fledged, "perfect", streamlined,
    clean, absolute, don't offend anybody, you can't do it, go to
    school, there's more to it than that, you're nuts" advice. Well, yes
    I can, and yes I did. With today's tools it's pretty easy to get a
    decent site up - then you can tweak it and update and redesign it as
    you know more. And if you want a site like SNAG with 10,000 members
    (what that has to do with a lady working in her garage I do not
    know), then you can and should hire a pro. If you do that keep an
    eye on them, too. I went to David Austin roses and had 175 hi res
    images load every time the page hit. Pro is a relative term, too. 

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