> -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:31 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Struts and DreamWeaver > > > From: "Jim Barrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you're paying them... who cares? It's your dime, your way or the > highway :) > > Nope, it's another department on campus. There is no > contract, and no clear > lines of ownership... I could have taken over the entire > thing but I hate > doing layout and page design (read: I'm not very good at it) > and am trying > to find a way to get them to do it for me. They have > marketing types and > graphic designers over there... I'm a department of one.
Graphic designers make great looking websites and absolutely horrid User Interfaces. As for marketing types.... well.... bring a large stick and a few dozen martinis. > > > DreamWeaver should support the tags, and ignore the JSTL. > > My biggest worry with DreamWeaver would be the HTML code the thing > generates. > > Typically it's pretty abysmal. > > Ugh, the first thing they sent was a solid block of <font> tags. I > explained the virtues of external style sheets and sent it > back. From the > other messages, it sounds like I'm better off doing it > myself. :/ I'll try > to get a clean formatted example out of them and just use > that. Thankfully > we all agree that simple is better, so the pages are not too > complicated, > but I still think I'm in for a bunch of editing. (And they're already > talking about changes...) That's the other problem with Graphic Designers... always tweaking things for no reason :) > > Thanks for the insight, I figured I was not the first to face this. :) No. I would also highly recommend a bottle of Middleton's (A mighty fine whisky.) for the aftermath of dealing with Grahpic Designers and Marketing people. About a fifth for each person of each type should do the trick.. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
