But see thats the thing. If they know no html they are going to get jsut as upset with a WYSIWYG editor as if they had jsut gone and learned it anyhow at least if they want something that looks decent. For any editor no matter how good or how bad if you use WYSIWYG at some point your going to have to retouch things uneless you want your site to look like absolute crap. And by the time the fulfill this requirment to get something acceptable they are probably going to have learned enough to hand code html instead of using the editor. So why not skip all the headaches. It takes all of a couple days to learn the rudiments of html and create a basic site and they wont accidentially do something that makes thier page go kaput in certain clients.

I mean think of all the time you spend correcting things generated by WYSIWYG. some of it is "nitpicky" to the layman but alot of it is also essential to getting things to look ok - regardless of your level of want or vision for good visual design.

Thats my 2¢ anyhow... However i here iWeb is pretty tight for lay mac users... pretty simple suff to generat simple things and easy syncing they say. I avent messed with it yet though. ofcourse that dont help the winbox people. IT wouldnt be so bad to convert a few along the way though ;-)

hey there!

as a dancer myself (I've seen you on the ATS tribe, mayhaps?) who also is a Web Designer, when I get the, "how do I design my own simple promotional website??" from another dancer who has no coding/HTML experience, I usually say, "you don't. you hire someone to do the job right." I personally find that there are so many awful dancer websites out that that aren't functional, are horrible looking and detract from the beauty of the dancer and the reason for this is almost 100 percent because they did it themselves without any knowledge.

I hate WYSIWYG programs and I don't offer up any easy "do it yourself" programs... When asked by dancers, "is it really that hard? I mean, it looks really simple, I bet I could do it." I reply, "well, It took me years to learn what I do and I still have so far to go... coding/design is a skill that takes a lot of studying, concentration and time, much like learning to dance."

So, my stance is that. Don't design unless you're a designer. There's a reason many of us have jobs and have studied either on our own or have gone to school/trained for this for years of our lives. WYSIWYG programs aren't going to really add value to their professional dance careers, just make them look slapdash. The only thing I offer up to fellow dancers who want to learn how to code is referencing them to W3 Schools and offering up some books they can study... but I always warn them that it takes a lot of time. The only other thing I suggest is that they contact a message board like Tribe or even a college board to seek out a junior web designer to get a bit of a price break or ask their students if any of them wish to trade web design for classes.

:) Brooke

Thanks Cowboyangel

I hear you can have people simply download plain material material from an Internet adress. Have you heard about that one?
It would be text material.