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Great advice, but i have a couple of nitpicks:

I start off with Dreamweaver ... but i don't maintain with Dreamweaver. Big difference. The advantage here has nothing to do with how much knowledge of HTML i have, but instead how much drudgery i don't want to type myself. Making a table is so much easier with the mouse, and the resulting HTML can always be filtered through HTML Tidy if i don't like it.

You forgot to mention a third way: seperate your Perl code from the HTML. This is where HTML::Template and Template rule. I no longer use those gruffy looking HERE docs for HTML.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re: 2Re: a Couple of questions!
by jonadab (Parson) on Sep 20, 2003 at 18:51 UTC
    Making a table is so much easier with the mouse

    With a decent editor1, this is simply not true. A few lines of lisp in your configuration go a *long* way toward reducing the amount of typing you have to do. In cperl-mode (with my custom enhancements in the hook), I hit one keystroke for my insert-tag function, type in table, hit Enter, and the following is inserted:

       <table width=\"100%\"><thead>
     <tr><th></th></tr>
   </thead><tbody>
     <tr><td></td></tr>
   </tbody></table>

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    And it leaves my cursor positioned inside the th. Similar shortcuts exist for other common tasks. My fingers never have to leave the keyboard.

    1 -- By <q>a decent editor</q> I of course mean Emacs, but this is not intended to start an editor war; feel free to customise your editor of choice in a similar fashion, if it provides the facilities for you to do so.
    $;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/

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      I think we are comparing apples and oranges here ... I recently designed a web site that used some pretty complex table arrangements for the layout of certain 'widgets'. I used Macromedia Fireworks to design the graphic first, then i "sliced" the graphic into pieces, keeping some elements as graphics while replacing others with modifiable text.

      Emacs may be a nice editor, but it won't do that, as it really only deals with text. If i have time, i can recreate an example, but can't show you the one i made ... contract. :(

      jeffa

      L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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Re: 2Re: a Couple of questions!
by Nik (Initiate) on Sep 20, 2003 at 16:20 UTC
    what exaclty is a template and how can i use it?
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