RE: [tlug] html editor :) IBM Homepage Builder

[Nguyen Hung Vu <vuhung@example.com>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jim BLACKSON wrote:

> My wife uses IBM Homepage Builder on Windows ME.  She's getting pretty good
> at general page layout, cut and paste from documents, making simple graphic
> buttons or logos.  When she does get stuck, she just calls "Darling!"
> (that's me :-)
> 
> Sometimes I directly edit the HTML; I didn't think the IBM HTML was so bad.
> The worst, though, is cutting and pasting from a MS-Word document; this
> imports such nasty Word HTML around the text we want.  What a bother to
> clean up.
> 
> The other scary thing is "place anywhere" mode of IBM Homepage Builder.  You
> and drag and drop text and graphics anywhere on a page.  The produced HTML
> seems to use layers with X,Y coordinates specifying the location of the
> object.  Because layers do display well in some browsers, I try to
> discourage my wife from using it. ("But its so convenient, darling.")

I prefer Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver not only supports hTML, but
also supports ASP, CFM. Give it a try.

For linux users, I recommend mozilla or emacs w/ html-mode 

Hung Vu

> 
> just my 2 yen,
> jim.
> 
> 

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