Jun 20 2008 at 9:17am
OSX makes it easy to create a great website … or not
I finally got around to trying out the local web server on my Mac today. At first I was quite impressed — it’s obvious from the default installation, everything is set up and ready to go, and they even include a handy quickstart index.html page*. How cool is that? Get newbies started with web page design. It even tells them how easy it is to create a web page.
Then I read this:
HTML is easy — so easy that even a first-time user can do it. That’s because you don’t have to learn HTML to use it.
Leading word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word and AppleWorks 6, actually generate HTML webpages for you with just a few clicks of a mouse.
Noooooooo….
* link only available while my work computer is on, which is only when I’m at work, or you can try this one.
Fredrik June 25th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
“Leading word processing applications, such as Microsoft Word”
OMG choke!
Jim Sefton July 1st, 2008 at 6:37 am
Oh no, that’s horrible! Yes, it’s nice to provide the facility for designers to be able to test locally but they should be shot for the “leading applications such as…” statement.
Just what we need, more “save as html” websites! Just when I thought I’d seen the back of Frontpage Extensions too .
What’s next, a library of animated GIF’s???