[WEB4LIB] RE: Photos on Home Pages

[Kevin W. Bishop]

It didn't sound to me like Karen was blaming anyone (except perhaps various 
software vendors?).  What she was pointing out was the need for web page 
authors to have a more solid education than a familiarity with 
Photoshop/Fireworks/GoLive/Dreamweaver/FrontPage.

I cannot tell you how many times I've had to fix web sites created by 
off-campus vendors who call themselves designers because they have a copy 
of some fancy web authoring software.  They all too often make very basic 
mistakes -- and have difficulty troubleshooting their errors -- simply 
because they lack an understanding of HTML, client-server architecture 
and/or the diversity of our users' computing environments.

So, what's the upside?  Job security, I suppose.  :)

-kb

At 11:41 AM 12/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Why blame the web page creators?  Javascript is a programming or script
>language that works in the browser instead of the server.  I disagree with
>those that say browser side scripting is bad.  What is bad are webpages that
>do not work when Javascripts are turned off or broken.
>
>Bill Drew

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Kevin W. Bishop
Communication & Collaboration Technologies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
<bishopk at rpi.edu> | <http://www.rpi.edu/rpinfo/>