[thelist] Turning Printies into Webbies.

Roger Newbrook roger.newbrook at kmsoftware.com
Wed Dec 5 03:51:35 CST 2001


Andrea wrote: "Any suggestions on the best way to approach this situation? I
have 3 2-hour training sessions with them. (about 3-4 people)."

A lot has been said about the delivery mechanism, browsers, platforms etc,
my 2p worth is "don't trust the technology". which has kind of been hinted
at with the ditching of graphic browsers in favour of hand coding html. It
might actually be useful to show examples of 'automatically generated code'
from Word in particular and compare the size of the same file, hand
generated.

as an aside, the old "less is more" addage is particularly useful. In these
days of HUUUUUGE hard drives as standard on home computers, it still amazes
people how small (fitting onto a floppy for example) conventional websites
are, they still expect huge file sizes and masses of storage space to be
needed. perhaps you could make your trainees aware of this aspect of web
design and implementation too.

good luck

roger




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