October 3, 2008
Web Publishing: UR DOIN IN WRONG

Ok, let’s see…

  • Decent open source HTML editor… check.
  • Write magazine article about using editor to create web pages… check.
  • Build Drupal website to post online versions of articles… check.
  • Post article as PDF attachment to Drupal node… WUT?
It gets worse. From the article text:
The first thing I want to do is set up a couple of tables, one inside the other, to hold my pictures and text. Think of tables as little boxes that you can put stuff into.

There is a fancier way of laying out a Web site, called Cascading Style Sheets, and Nvu supports it, but for simple sites it seems like overkill. Tables have been used for years for basic Web page layout tasks, and they are quick and easy to set up— exactly what I need.
That’s just scary.