Re: Web Designer versus Xtreme Pro
Originally Posted by
sledger
Alexander if Xara Web Designer offends you because it's putting power in the hands of those who do not know HTML, then all I can say is 'Get over it"..
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So please try not to force your way of thinking onto others with your bullish comments, if you can't accept WD and see it as blasphemy, then please choose another subject to discuss at TG which we can happily join in with and remain friends. OK?
Sheesh, relax! You have totally misunderstood me.
The issue is more complex: Web development consists of (at least) two fundamentally different tasks: 1) *Graphics design* (layout, navbar design, button design, choice of fonts/sizes etc.). That can be handled by a graphics artist, and using a tool like Xtreme to make a *purely graphical* (no HTML, no CSS) *mockup.
Then there's 2) *Implementation*: Which is implement a layout in HTML/CSS that encapsulates the previously (graphically) drafted layout and design, with possibly added functionality.
Xara WD (and to a degree Xtreme) mix these two concepts. I think that these two concepts should stay seperate. But I guess me (with my 29 years) is pretty oldschool. I also think that those "combo devices" (scanner, fax, copier, printer, toaster, vacuum all in one) are just as bad a development, because they do 6 things with mediocre results, instead of doing one thing *well*.
Excuse me if I'm not politically correct (tm), but I'll keep stating opinions
Alexander Ewering
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