At What Point Does A Webmaster Need To Learn Coding By Hand?

[krusher]

I got involved in a web design/developer program at school and we did everything in notepad. It was all xhtml. Now, I find myself getting lazy and using dreamweaver alot. I think it is good to understand what is happening, but I dont think that it is necessary. Now I'm on to take a programming class and a advanced xhtml class. I just want to learn more and create. Should be fun. It's always good to cover the basics.

[desslock]

I learned to build webpages in HTML - so that's still how I do it. Although I do not use Notepad - I use Macromedia Homesite.... which is very helpful in putting together my pages, plus it has a spell check and code checker.

I would probably switch to Dreamweaver one day if I actually sat down and learned the ins and outs, plus the benefits.

Steve

[lottatoys]

I guess my 'problem' is taking the time to learn the WYSIWYG app..

When I am really busy.. Sometimes I feel I can knock out the html quicker by hand.. rather than sitting down and reading the manual and dinking around with the app.. (creation vs evolution - bad pun)

I use ImageReady or Paintshop to chop up the picture.. then I manually tweak the HTML.. I have all kinds of snippets for those repetitive things like mouseovers, and such.. that I just insert..

Note to self.. less time reading boards.. more time learning apps..

[Madame0120]

About 6 months ago, roy turned the company site over to me to redesign. Becasue I didn't know anything about coding or how to really work Dreamweaver, I whined and said I couldn't do it. Persistant son of a gun said he'd get me started and that he knew could and would learn it.

Well, since he's the smartest MFer I know and trust his judgement, I accepted the project.

For more than a month, with roy's instructions and the library of books he's collected, I was finally getting the hang of it. Even though I was using DW, I did it with the split screen and the code wasn't looking quite so Greek.
I was feeling quite Proud :sun:

... then we went to Vegas.

Two weeks away from any new skill I haven't dicked yet, means I forgot most of what I knew and had to tell roy I was in need of a lil refresher, if I was going to get back to working on the site. He says ..

"I'll finish it up, you learned what I wanted you to."

:wacko: And WTF was that? I asked

"You learned how not to ask for the impossible."

The Bastid! I love him so! :nerd: