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Technical excellence via hand work

By Jay Small | Wed, 04/30/2008 - 6:14pm

A Slashdot post points to an online discussion with Khoi Vinh, design guru at NYTimes.com, in which Vinh is asked how the team there maintains visual consistency. His answer, in part:

"It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or
TextMate, to 'hand code' everything, rather than to use a WYSIWYG (what
you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like
Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results."

Like I keep saying, people ... like I keep saying.

hand made HTML

Jack Lail (not verified) | Fri, 05/02/2008 - 8:04pm

Excellent point. You'll certainly understand it better that way.

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