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Old 07-23-2008, 01:15 AM
Murray *ACE*
 
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Default Re: Working With Templates

You want documentation about how "wizard" HTML is not robust? I'm not
really aware of any....

However, here's a post I have made more than once -

When you use a graphics editor to write your HTML, the editor assumes that
EVERY PAGE will have the same shape. It then proceeds to write HTML that
EXACTLY reproduces the shape of the layout you have built, but at the price
of extreme rigidity of the resulting HTML (the tables are littered with col-
and rowspans), which means that if your page shape changes at all (i.e., you
add more content on one page, or larger graphics on another page), the whole
layout breaks down.

Based on my observations of posts on the DW forum over the past 5 years and
more, fully 30% of the posts there can be attributed to this single issue -
using wizards to write your HTML (even DW's Layout mode is the same).

Now - adding interactivity in FW is not exactly the same thing, but it's a
bad habit that needs to be broken (in my opinion). Use FW to do what it
does exceptionally well - create graphics for the web. Use your HTML
authoring for what it most likely also does exceptionally well - create HTML
pages. Don't get the two mixed up....

To read more about col- and rowspans, go here -

http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php


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"Smooth Skater" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> It seems that I have heard this before. Can you direct me to some
> documentation that will allow me educate myself, because I am working on a
> template that will go live.


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