[ale] Basic web design fee

[Warren Myers]

Based on the reaction I get from most people I go to school with (not that 
we really have that many good web folks where I go to school, at least in 
terms of understanding what they're doing), they're convinced that anyone 
wanting to write their own code is nuts. I personally only like generators 
when it comes to GUI building for 'real' applications. Manually laying out 
every Qt or MSFT widget is a pain in the behind. 

Other than that, though, code generators don't seem to have much of a 
purpose. 

I do use some automation on my personal site, but it's just a php script 
that goes and grabs all of the files in a given directory and makes a 
listing of X type file, or the similar script that runs my online journal, 
which picks up all the journal entries and displays them for me. It's not 
really generating code, though, since I have to write the entries with any 
markup I want already in them, and the script just embeds each one inside 
its own little div for formatting.

Auto-building websites using the GUI tools is nice when you're first 
starting off, because you can see a direct relationship between the code and 
the screen. But after a few sample pages, you begin to realize that you can 
have far smaller markup and accomplish the same things, especially when you 
start to get into PHP or SSI to bring in your common menus and such.

WMM

On 4/25/05, Barry Hawkins <barry at bytemason.org> wrote:
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> George Carless wrote:
> >>I usually do all of my coding in some text editor, so I know exactly 
> where
> >>everything is on the page. I'm also one of those weird people who likes 
> to
> >>hand-write his CSS, though I've been impressed with the little exposure 
> I've
> >>had to nvu so far.
> >
> >
> > Hurray to hand-written code! Anything else will produce junk.
> [...]
> I agree; even the stuff turned out by the great Dreamweaver MX doesn't
> hold out well over time. The Server Behaviors generated code is also
> usually considerably behind the APIs and languages it provides.
> 
> - --
> Barry Hawkins
> All Things Computed
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