| Note that a lot of people in the 90s used WYSIWYG editors, both Netscape Gold (later Communicator) and Internet Explorer (as of Windows 98) came with WYSIWYG editors (Composer and Frontpage Express respectively). Personally i had my own site since the mid-90s (initially on Geocities, later on Tripod) and always used WYSIWYG editors (initially Netscape Composer, later Frontpage Express and after that Mozilla Composer) and AFAIK most people i know used and most oldschool sites i remember were made using such editors. TBH i never understood, even at the time, the point of writing static pages by hand (i remember even proud web buttons like "Made in Notepad" :-P) - the main explanation i was given was that the WYSIWYG editors created messy code, but to me that never sounded like a good reason since the entire purpose of such an editor is to not have to bother with the code. I only started making sites by hand when i got into (classic) ASP (i made single pages before, but mostly for javascript demos or learning HTML and the like) and later PHP. Even then, the first time i used ASP was for a hobby site i worked on with some friends over the net about (point and click) adventure games where we'd put articles and such and the articles themselves were written in Frontpage Express for formatting and such (with the code just copy/pasted into a textarea i had in the "admin" section :-P). I'm still using Seamonkey Composer and Frontpage Express (well, more the latter than the former since i'm not using Seamonkey much anymore whereas the latter is just a 1.5MB zip file i carry on my external hard disk that works out of the box anywhere) for very simple pages like [0], [1] and [2]. Although my "bigger" sites (that is, sites with more than a couple of pages and a need for a theme) are made using custom generators (usually in Free Pascal or Python). And FWIW one of my favorite software that isn't developed anymore is Apple's iWeb - i haven't seen a tool as easy to use for making static sites as this one. Sadly Apple cares much less than Microsoft ever did about backwards compatibility and i'm certain my copy of iWeb will stop working soon (and there isn't any Wine equivalent to fall back on whereas in the unlikely even that old Windows programs stop working, i can still use them via Wine) so after Apple abandoned it, i stopped using it myself. [0] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/jtf/ [1] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/ [2] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/ol/ |