Creating Dynamic Web Pages (ZOPE)

[robin at execulink.com]

I wrote:
> I would very much advise against DreamWeaver and similar tools that
> pretend designing web pages is a WYSIWYG activity, which it certainly
> is not.

"Max M" <maxm at mxm.dk> wrote ...
> Dreamweaver is a very fast and convenient way to edit html. If you know
> what you do, your code is just as clean as handcrafted html. There is
> nothing in html that you cannot tweak in Dreamweaver.

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>That's been my experience too. I have certainly been no fan of WTSIWYG
>tools, FrontPage having made my life a misery for some short time before I
>abandoned it. DreamWeaver does seem to be in a rather different class,
>though not perfect. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Well, I have tried it. In my role as web app designer and project
leader I have also had to deal with Dreamweavered code from
consultants. I can recognise the mess at a distance... 

To me this argument is similar to saying that Perl is a great
language, because although you can write obsfucated code you don't
have to.

But I prefer Python because for the most part it encourages good
coding practices. IMO, a text editor with templating language
encourages good markup practices.

Perl, Dreamweaver, et al. encourage write-only documents and are
especially ill-suited to teamwork.

-- robin