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A friend asked me to build her a small-business website which will use forms, PHP, and MySQL. The PHP and MySQL are no problem, but I wonder just how far I can go with coding the raw HTML into gedit. Isn't something like Dreamweaver required to do anything other than a very simple website? I know nothing about WYSIWYG tools, and I'm wondering if I should start learning. How far can one go with just coding the raw HTML and CSS?Originally Posted by hessiess
Last edited by donsy; July 17th, 2010 at 03:04 PM.
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This thread is a little stale.
Nonsense. With careful design it is possible to make great-looking websites with minimal HTML and CSS. The key is "design". You're not just throwing together a wad of HTML whenever a new page is needed; you need to design your base code to be extensible in-place and your new code to extend and reuse the old code. This was not true in the pre-CSS days of table-based layout, when it really was necessary to use Dreamweaver or a similar tool if you wanted anything decent-looking (and Heaven help you if you tried to make a minor edit in any other tool).
What do you mean, "raw HTML"? You're using PHP, right? Which means (most of) your pages are going to be generated on the fly. You don't have to write static HTML pages for everything you put out there. Use templates to eliminate redundancy so your files don't all start with <!DOCTYPE ...><html><head>blah blah blah</head><body>, which means that if you ever change the entire site you have to change every single file. Code with your brain, not your fingers.I know nothing about WYSIWYG tools, and I'm wondering if I should start learning. How far can one go with just coding the raw HTML and CSS?
Last edited by trent.josephsen; July 17th, 2010 at 05:46 PM. Reason: clarification
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Well I was planning on using PHP mainly for editing and cleaning the data and generating the proper SQL to insert it into the database, not necessarily for generating HTML on the fly. For that I would prefer to have as much statically coded HTML as possible.
Can you elaborate a little more on this or provide a link?
Last edited by donsy; July 17th, 2010 at 06:13 PM.
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Why? I mean, for a site with only 2-3 pages and no dynamic content, it might make sense, but static HTML becomes unmaintainable very, very quickly.
Erm, it won't work with static HTML (hence the term "static"). My experience is with Python/Django and Perl/HTML::Template; no PHP knowledge whatsoever. You might look into SSI (Server Side Includes) if you're truly opposed to dynamically generated HTML.Can you elaborate a little more on this or provide a link?
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