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What fourdc said reminds me of the Canada First Robotics competition. One part was the development of a website, which I did. It had to be in valid xhtml and you had to have graphic and text-only versions of the site. I spent hours making my site determine the users browser and then making sure both sites were laid out exactly the same and that the text only version was still pretty. The winning teams had sites that were incredible for the graphic versions, but sucked ass when it came to the text-only version. What good is my fancy graphical page if the user is browsing with links or lynx.
As for myself. I do everything in Textpad. I'll do a rough hand sketch of what I want the page to look like and i'll pass it off to my roommate. He'll open Photoshop and create the desired image and send it to me. Then i'll draw a grid on it and send it back to him. He'll cut the grid into the pieces while I code the table or frames to hold the images. He'll send them back and i'll drop them in. Then boom our page is graphically designed. Then I usually use an inline frame to display the page content.
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Pretty much dreamweaver for me, can do most things i want by hand, but it will take my 5 times as long
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i mainly use dreamweaver for replacing finding and replacing certin things within a document. It also can be useful in coding a layout, but i learned off wordpad when i was 13 (i'm 16 now) and i've become very efficent at coding in html. I can now pretty much code any sort of layout in table format and i've actually done some scripting jobs for my cousin for a couple hundred bucks.
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I have made many a website and do all my code by hand. FrontPage is a piece of crap to put it lightly. The code that it generates is so screwed up from a designers stand point. I have taught many clients Dreamweaver as it is way better than FrontPage for editing infromation in one of my designs... Jhollings
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i recommend to use any MacroMedia application...
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I started making webpages when I was about 13, and the only thing I used was notepad. When I started taking computer classes in highschool, I used notepad. When I learned Perl, I used notepad. When I learned PHP, I used notepad. But as much as I loved notepad, I have pretty much abanded Windows, so now I use emacs or vi. Funfun.
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i too use raw html; all my gamer friends use phpnuke, moonfruit, frontpage, and other cheap site makers...
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Anybody can make a web page with the editors available, anybody.
Ever look at the code these WYSIWYG editors spew forth? Trash!!!!!!!!
Ever try to recode one of those pages?? You are better off starting from scratch.
I tell people right upfront, I have NO artistic ability at all, but if you draw it I'll write it.
I tried using hot-dog, frontpage, composer, etc. years ago.
I got so disgusted I went to the W3C web site, downloaded the proposed ( at the time ) 3.0 specs, and learned.
I used DomiNOTE for a while ( a great notepad replacement ), then tried DominHTML ( I think I got their new links right, they've changed a couple of times. )
But the real gem in the HTML world ( IMHO ) is ... oh, maybe this is a secret? I am truly surprised it wasn't mentioned yet.
It's HTML-Kit
Now a days all my sites are written in xhtml and css. 99% of the readers don't know the difference, BUT I DO!
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I started off useing frontpage a little but nowadays I just use notepad and write my pages from scrap might take a little longer but I feel so proud when I've written it all myself lol.
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I use synText editor. Its really good with hightlighting the tabs and attributes. I like actually typing the tabs in instead of using a program like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. HTML was real easy to learn if you just sit down for like an hour or so. I showed an 8 year old HTML so anyone can learn it.
