James Luterek

I'm not a designer in any way, I write code, however sometimes I find myself needing to create a website without the help of a designer.  In those cases there are a few websites that I find extremely useful, if you know of any more let me know.

Why is it that whenever a website is started everyone’s first thought is about how it will look. An image editor is opened and graphics are thrown onto the screen. The result is then converted into html and css, usually by some WYSIWYG editor that gives it all absolute positioning. Then there are complaints that the footer should be at the bottom not right under the header or that background images are not lining up. All the while the page has absolutely no content!

I started building websites using notepad and a browser. I eventually moved on to programs which provided syntax highlighting and code completion, but I never stopped writing code. Yes WYSIWYG editors may be helpful, but personally I need to know what I’m publishing. So if you have already judged me as a dinosaur trying to hold on to days past soon to be extinct feel free to write this article off as a rant, but if you want to become a better web developer get back to the basics.

Everyone else has a weblog so here is mine.

I have built a weblog into this cms.  I'd like to thank SemPerKit, as I referenced the code quite a bit.