[Wylug-help] Re: Web page problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 April 2008 21:47:03 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Anne
>
> > > http://coppermine-gallery.net/ makes everything easy to manage.
> >
> > OK, I'll look into that.  I've downloaded it.  I presume that when
> > I unpack and install it it will be reasonably self-evident how to
> > use it.  I do have time to play around a little.  It will probably
> > be a week or two before decisions are made.
>
> Yes.  Documents and Readme etc tend to be good as well as useful.
>
> > I know that's mainstream.  I can't really afford the time for a
> > steep learning curve unless it's absolutely essential.
>
> Yes.  That was the way that I felt when I looked at Drupal.  Wonderful
> CMS but a bit like reading through a pile of medical technology
> research papers to learn how to put an elastoplast on someones
> finger ;)
>
> > > http://www.kompozer.net/
> >
> > Yes, I've used some of these.  They tend to produce rather bloated
> > code, but it can be tidied up a bit at the end.  OTOH, the outgoing
> > webmaster has used Dreamweaver - and a fairly old one, I'd guess -
> > and I'm not so sure that that produced neat code either :-)
>
> Yes.  Just about anything to do with web pages can be fraught with all
> sorts of weird problems.  Best not to mention the W3C vs Microsoft
> (non) web standards thing.  A large black hole awaits those of us who
> don't think before leaping over the edge into the darkness ;)

Thanks for the pointers, Richard.  Over the next few days I'll try to get some 
time to play with coppermine.

Anne
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