[Gllug] Flash and Dreamweaver going to port for Linux

[Richard Jones]

> Because when you're faced with having non-technical people having to
> make updates to your website it's much nicer to have some software that
> writes reasonably competent code in a WYSIWIG view than spend several
> weeks trying (and failing) to teach them how to code HTML.<br>

All you need to tell them is:

Put this standard bit of mumbo-jumbo in the top and bottom of the file
(the standard bit being a couple of server-side includes).  [Actually,
it's: when you want to start a new page, copy this template file to
index.shtml]

Write the rest of your document.

Put <p>  ... </p> around paragraphs.

Finished.  This is not hard.  They can learn fancy stuff like using
<strong> and <h?> later.

> Other reasons why it's useful (and things I've not really seen anywhere
> else):<br>
>
> 1. Templates can make large (static) sites much easier to manage<br>

SSI is a much better alternative than DW templates.

> 2. Sitewide search and replace, text based, tag based or even attribute
> based<br>

That's a feature of my editor.

> 3. The new CSS features in MX 2004 are actually really nice
> (intellisense style drop downs when writing style rules, for instance)<br>

No idea about this.  None of the end users will be writing CSS anyway.

The hard part is getting people used to using CVS to manage the
content and versions.

Rich.

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