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Don't Use a WYSIWYG program
A WYSIWYG program is a program, like Dreamweaver or Word, that allow you to just drag pictures around and format text colors and sizes by clicking on buttons without having to code. Don't use any WYSIWYG program - you will want to "hand code" everything. There are two big reasons why you don't want to use these programs. First, you lose control over your ability to do things. Secondly, these programs bulk up your code by inserting formatting for all the code which is not needed. Here is an example of how these programs bulk up your code. First an example of a page I create in Notepad - just an HTML file with the word "EXAMPLE" in it and nothing else except HTML tags. The first picture is the code I wrote in notepad and the second is how the HTML appears in the web browser.
Now, here is the same HTML page created with Microsoft Word. I just went into Word and typed the word "EXAMPLE" and bolded it. The first picture shows me creating the page and saving it as an HTML file. After I saved the file, the second picture is what the code looks like when I open the Word-created HTML file in Notepad. Notice all that junk in there? You don't want to deal with that.
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admin December 8, 2006 |
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