4 Comments on “What are the advantages of creating a website with plain html rather than a WYSIWYG?”

1. David D
   April 20th, 2008 at 3:37 am

   HTML is a language designed to describe the semantics and structure of a document, not its appearance. WYSIWYG is all about the appearance and thus isn’t very good at getting the semantics and structure correct.

2. xdwcpsd
   April 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pm

   HTML:

   1. You know EXACTLY the code you typed and how everything functions.
   2. You get really good with html and it helps you when you go on to bigger websites.

   DREAMWEAVER:

   1. It does a lot of the work for you. (Set’s styles, closes tags, gives you hints if you do decide to plain code). Consequently, you don’t learn as much but your site looks better.

   2. Easy updates to websites.

   3. Easy file linking. For example, most links on your website are internal. With Dreamweaver, it managers links for you. So, if you move a file, all references to that file ANYWHERE within your site automatically change if you change within Dreamweaver. This saves you a TON of time.

   4. It helps you organize your site into contents very easily.

   5. You can design, maintain, update, post live and everything else website related right on Dreamweaver.

   6. Dreamweaver doesn’t write excessive code for html. Other programs do, so you won’t know EXACTLY what your code does.

   ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE:

   TIME … html hand coding is much slower. Dreamweaver, much faster!

3. icnintel
   April 21st, 2008 at 6:41 pm

   Writing the HTML yourself gives you total control over your site. Also, if there are some cross-browser compatability problems or some other bug, Dreamweaver isn’t going to help you. You’ll have to rev up Notepad and look at the code. One other thing is writing the HTML yourself saves you from having the rest of the additional garbage a WYSIWYG editor may or may not toss into your page (MS FrontPage does this). The best of both worlds, IMO, is to use WYSIWYG for general layout of content and links, and HTML by hand for the rest of it.

4. r_ranjith
   April 22nd, 2008 at 6:39 am

   With plain HTML you get complete control over the code – so you can optimize the code to the best possible extent.

   Using a tool like dreamweaver you can still get your website done – and that too more easily. Its also easier to manage the entire site more easily. The only downside is the unwanted code that dreamweaver may add.

   However – if you generate webpages in dreamweaver, the code can still be edited manually so that the code is made optimal. This way you can have best of both the worlds.

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