learning HTML

[Thomas Dowling]

There are also Internet Assistants for Excel, PowerPoint, and
Schedule+, if not for all the Office components by now.  IMO, the
Internet Assistants are useful only for small-scale document
conversion, and not for prime time HTML generation.  In the Microsoft
World View, you'd be using FrontPage for that(*).  Somewhere recently,
I saw mention of an small editor from Microsoft called FrontPad;
basically FrontPad is to FrontPage as WordPad is to Word.  I'm tempted
to say I saw FrontPad listed as an Office 97 throw-in, but will happily
concede to anyone who actually knows what they're taking about.

To answer the original question, No.  If you're responsible for any
aspect of your web site's design or content, the best tools in the
world don't absolve you from needing to know at least the rudiments of
HTML.  Your definition of "rudiments" might vary from someone else's,
but I'd offer as a first hurdle the ability to do something like change
an ordered list to an unordered list without firing up a multi-megabyte
application like FrontPage--with an impatient boss looking over your
shoulder requiring it NOW.

(*In other cosmographies, replace "FrontPage" with "Claris Home Page,"
"HotDog Pro," "HoTMetaL Pro," etc., etc.)

Thomas ("Still happy with vi") Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu

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> From: Swanson, Sandy <sswanson at bw.brhn.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <diglibns at sunsite.berkeley.EDU>
> Subject: RE: learning HTML
> Date: Monday, January 06, 1997 2:00 PM
> 
> 
> There's an add-in for Word called "Microsoft Internet Assistant for
Word." 
>  Unfortunately you will still need to take the HTML introductory
course in 
> order to figure out why Internet Assistant didn't do what you
expected.
> 
> Sandy Swanson, Library Manager, Amberg Library
> Cook Institute for Research & Education, Butterworth Hospital
> 100 Michigan NE, Grand Rapids MI 49503       sswanson at bw.brhn.org
>  ----------
> Michael Ginsborg wrote:
> 
>  I plan to take a short introductory course on HTML, offered by a
community
> college, does anyone know whether some of Microsoft's products, such
as
> FrontPage and PowerPoint, make that unnecessary?
> 
> Michael Ginsborg, Assistant Librarian
> California Supreme Court Library
> 415-396-9438
> ginsborg at class.org
>