Visual Editors for Creating Web Content
I remember my youth. At the time, I managed to “sign contracts” for creating sites for the Yukon Information Technology Industry Society (http://www.yitis.ca/), the Yukon River Trail Marathon (http://yukonmarathon.com/), the Canada Winter Games and a small development company Sorrento Systems. I can’t recall which of these contracts paid.
My process was simple: I used Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Layouts involved complex tables and hundreds of spliced images. I didn’t understand HTML and had no use for CSS.
Flash forward to present day. I work as a software developer and code projects using modern web frameworks.
I now write streamlined code. I fear using a table tag. My processes includes TextMate, CSSEdit, Photoshop, Illustrator, Transmit, Versions and Kaleidoscope. Code is well abstracted and maintainable.
The question I ponder is if I am any faster today than I was in my youth.
Now I seem to spend countless hours designing in Photoshop or Illustrator, only to have to recreate the designs in HTML and CSS. I switch between tools for different steps of projects and will reiterate when required. However, I can no longer find a one-stop tool to do everything.
Web tools could use an equivalent to Apple Interface Builder that allows for a one-stop design place.
