Posts filed under 'Web Stuff'
Jeff J. Snider
Web Stuff
I mentioned a day or two ago a couple blog entries about hand coding vs. WYSIWYG. Roger’s entry generated quite a discussion, including some Dreamweaver bashing. Jonathan Snook took issue with that in those comments (see especally comments 41 and 49), and he followed that up by posting a great little tutorial on Dreamweaver’s Search and Replace functionality over on his own blog.
Jonathan inspired me a little bit, and I thought I would follow his lead and do a little bit about MY favorite thing about Dreamweaver: integrated FTP. I am hoping Jonathan follows up on his Search and Replace tutorial with some stuff about his other favorite features, and I certainly plan to do the same over here.
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September 21st, 2005 at 11:23pm
Jeff J. Snider
Web Stuff
Paul Scrivens wrote a nice little blog entry about why he thinks people should hand-code their web sites instead of using WYSIWYG editors, and Roger Johansson followed up with:
Right on, Scrivs. I’ve never seen the need for WYSIWYG tools, and I wouldn’t let someone who uses the design view of an application like Dreamweaver near my code unless they can prove that they actually do know HTML. In fact, I’m not so sure I would trust them anyway.
To be honest, I learned a lot of what I know about HTML from Dreamweaver 2.0. When I was first getting started, I had two teachers: “Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours” and Dreamweaver. I read the entire book, but most of my hands-on knowledge came from using Dreamweaver’s visual editor, then switching to code view to see how it did what it did. Now that I know what I know, I am glad that I used Dreamweaver and not some other lousy WYSIWYG program like FrontPage or something, since Dreamweaver is the only one I have seen that writes good code. So anyway, I learned HTML with Dreamweaver.
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September 20th, 2005 at 05:27pm
Jeff J. Snider
General, Web Stuff
I have had quite a few people recently ask me about Vonage, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) company that I use for my home phone service. I figured I should just put something about it on my blog so I would have a link to point people to. Here is an email I sent to some friends a few months ago:
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September 12th, 2005 at 10:14am
Jeff J. Snider
Web Stuff
One of the first things I learned about web development is that you always have to have a site to play on, a place to try out new ideas and concepts, a place to hone your craft. For me, that site has always been my brother’s site, www.ericdsnider.com. So ever since I got serious about learning CSS, I have been itching to put it to use on Eric’s site.
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June 30th, 2004 at 11:10am
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