Re: CHAT: Finally! My conlang is now up on the Web...

On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Carlos Thompson wrote:
> Nik Taylor
> > Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
and lots of other people have written on this subject in the past few days.
Here's my two cents:


I do my HTML by hand.

When travelling with my laptop, I still use M$ Word to write my HTML, not that
I let Word generate the HTML, though. No, I use Word to type in my own tags and
save the file as text. The reason I use Word for this, when Notepad would do as
well, is that I have a bunch of macros written for Word that put HTML tags in
for me whenever I run them.

At home, I have a real computer. :-) I used to use vi, but for some reason
someone improved it to add color coding to things like HTML tags and didn't
think it properly through and it has become unreadable and unusable. I have
taken to using nedit, which I also have a set of HTML macros for.

As to design philosophy, simple is better. Not that that stops me from doing
such things as making all the examples of Kelen both italic and green (done
with a css file. If your browser doesn't do css, then you'll see Kelen as only
italic. No problem.) I do sometimes use tables for formatting, and I will admit
to misusing <dd> tags, but otherwise I try to keep my HTML mostly to standards
and will check it on lynx and on the Bobby server
(http://www.cast.org/bobby/advanced.html).  I only use frames when it makes
sense to do so.

What is really nice is that I have two clients locally who not only agree with
my design philosophy, they pay me good money to make webpages for them.

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