Fleemo wrote:
I write most of my HTML by hand, but have been enjoying using
ImageReady CS to generate complex layouts from my Photoshop layouts.
Is ImageReady CS W3C-compliant? Is there a lot of tweaking that must
be done to the ImageReady-generated HTML to make it W3C-compliant?
Two good principles appear to be:
- Don't generate web pages from image editing packages. I use Photoshop &
Image Ready, and use them for what they are good at: image / photograph
editing. I don't know whether their HTML can be W3C compliant - that covers a
multitude of recommendations. But it can hardly be expected to be a good
balance of HTML & CSS.
- Don't generate web pages from a "layout mode" even in a web page authoring
package such as Dreamweaver.
Contrary to some views, however, web pages generated by "design view" in
Dreamweaver (a sort-of WYSIWYG editing mode) can be good quality pages. I
write valid 4.01 Strict using valid CSS in that view. Given that you know
enough about HTML to write it by hand, you could probably work well in that
mode. I suspect some people don't distinguish between Dreamweaver's design
view (OK, and in fact pretty good in MX2004) & its layout mode (bad).
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Barry Pearson
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