Web Design

Originally Posted by Tiggy

Don't get me started! Seriously, you'll be opening a whole can of worms if you want the advantages and disadvantages of various editors... there is no end to the argument it seems.

For me, if it has a drag and drop interface then it's a WYSIWYG, everything else is a text editor. There are all HTML editors in the sense that are capable of editing HTML.

During past descussions I have come to the following conclusion.

Coders use Text editors, designers use WYSIWYG; both types will resort to the "other style" when necessary (for speed or control, depending on who you are).

Coders are usually people with a history of other programming languages. They feel more comfortable being in full control of the page and knowing exactly where to go to fix problems. Designers are people who like to play around with different ideas before deciding that something is not quite right and they change it. It doesn't matter to them what the code under the page does, as long as it looks how they want it to and it does what they expect.

I know these may be general sweeping statements that probably don't apply ridgedly to everyone - but I think everyone that builds pages should fall into one or the other so I feel they are fair assumptions to make.

I consider myself a coder. There is nothing more thrilling that putting a site online that has been built from the ground up by hand coding, particularly if you've developed your own scripts that power it... end of!