[WEB4LIB] Re: Converting FrontPage 2000 to DreamWeaver 3

[George Porter]

The problem, as I see it, is that the proprietary site management functions
(themes, navigation, etc) tie you to a single GUI HTML editor, perhaps also
operating system and web server.  CSS or XSL are standards-based,
editor-independent ways to accomplish the same ends.  If your software of
choice ceases to be marketed, falls out of the campus/library site license
plans, etc, you will have many headaches to reproduce the desired effects in
another proprietary format, or converting the code to achieve the
functionality through CSS/XSL.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681