Doc wrote:
I bought the Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page to teach
myself HTML & website creation but while going through the learning
curve want to get a page up and running. So, I also got Webeasy Pro
since I sense it'll be a while before I'll be able to do anything
sophisticated doing it by hand coding.
Anyone here ever encountered snafu's when running a commercial website
generated by a program as opposed to hand-coded html?
depends what you mean by commercial
if you have an existing successful business with a large scale non-
Internet marketing programme and simply want the web site as an additional
brochure then you can get away with it
if you actually want to get new business through the site then you will
NEED it to be search engine friendly...in which case you can either use a
program to create the site and then pay for an expensive SEO consultancy
to hide its faults...or you can do it properly in the first place
if you are hosting the site on your own servers and have bandwidth to burn
then you can get away with automatically created html...as you can if you
have no intention of ever having any significant number of
visitors...otherwise you'll find that even the best programs generate
around 30-40% of redundant mark up, which means around the same amount of
bandwidth wasted
above all ask yourself this...do you really want to make something
sophisticated and complex before you actually know how the basics
work?...how are you going to deal with any problems with it?
learn to get the basics right first...it'll save time and money in the
long term
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"Hey Lord don't ask me questions
There ain't no answer in me"
