[geeks] Photo "sharing" site recemondations please.

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:59 , Nadine Miller wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> NOTE2: I have started using Rapidweaver on the mac to create  
>> websites, and while they won't display great on a text-only  
>> browser, by default they make little or no use of Javascript, and  
>> still look pretty good with just CSS.  The only thing I can't  
>> figure out is how to eliminate the CSS menu system and go with a  
>> plain link-based menu system.  I guess I'll have to figure out  
>> their template system.  I just like it because I can get things  
>> done so much faster than doing it by hand.  RW produces fully  
>> compliant HTML and XML far faster than I ever could.
>
> CSS allows a lot more flexibility for delivery of your website to  
> different types of browsers, though (e.g. conditional checks of  
> browser to deliver info to mobile/small screen browsers without  
> having two branches of the website).  The way the google spiders  
> work, unless you are careful with your robots.txt, you could wind up  
> with duplicate content penalties.

Just in case you misunderstood me: I use CSS, I just want to eliminate  
the CSS menu only.  I plan to use it for the rest of the sites.

I don't like the CSS menu because of how they look and I don't want  
the mouse over stuff and all that.

I mostly like CSS to keep line-length readable, and do minimal layout  
for navigation, which hopefully degrades into an ordered list in non- 
CSS browsers.

> I can understand the desire for stream-lining web sites, I hate ads  
> and cluttered pages as much as anyone.  But going from coding HTML  
> for nice-looking displays using inline info to using CSS is night  
> and day as far as I am concerned.

Yes, CSS is much easier.

Encoding format in HTML is not only wrong, it's a nightmare to  
maintain and very hard on the browsers.

It's just too bad they botched CSS so badly, but it is finally  
starting to stabilize.

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com