Amen to that, but i don't think that WYWSIWYG's are evil,
they are just another form of laziness. ;) I recently used
Fireworks and Dreamweaver to create the templates for a
website. I was handed two Photoshop files that contained the
entire front page and an auxiliary page. I used Fireworks to
splice up the images, and (even though Fireworks generates
HTML) Dreamweaver to create the HTML. Next, add the template
tags, and start coding your design. Honestly, i should
mention that i had to use PHP for this site, but i was
able to utilize
PHP-HTML::Template.
Another simpler (and free) way to start off templates is
with HTML Tidy. Forgive my
bias of operating systems:
$ echo 1 | tidy -asxhtml > skeleton.tmpl
Of course, remaining XHTML compliant is up to you after
that, but shouldn't be hard with tools like
validator.w3.org available.
One of the kicks i get out of using HTML::Template (well,
templates in general) is that i can atcually switch my
"mode of thinking": when i am working on the
script/module i think like a programmer, but when i am
working on the template i think more like a programmer
thinking like a designer. ;)
jeffa
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B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)