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Tailslide -> RE: Is it really this easy? (3/31/2008 3:30:22)
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It's fairly easy to produce a website in a short time using a WYSIWYG editor.
It's much harder to produce a website that works well for people not using a specific version of IE or people with larger or smaller screens or poor eyesight or no eyesight etc etc.
In other words - as Womble says, if it's just a family site where you know for a fact that everyone uses IE6 or IE7 and that everyone has good eyesight and can use a mouse then you're probably absolutely fine.
If you're building a business site that the public will be looking at then you'll need the site to work well for as many people as possible. If you're in the UK then you need to make some efforts to ensure that the site is accessible to the disabled too. At the very least you should be checking the site in as many browsers as you can download onto your PC - e.g. IE5.5, IE6, IE7 (don't worry about IE8 beta yet), Firefox, Opera, Safari PC. If the site works properly in all of those then you've made a good start.
The hardest thing will be building a good site in the first place (and by good I mean attractive, effective and accessible) - once you've got that done then maintaining it shouldn't be too hard. You should definitely look into using "Includes" to streamline the maintenance of the site - in particular if it's a large site or likely to become large.
Also bear in mind that if you use Front Page gadgets that fewer and fewer web hosts will be supporting the FrontPage extensions that make those work (so it's likely in my opinion to get more expensive). Microsoft has moved on to Expressions and wants it's clients to do the same (and shell out more money obviously!).
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