Building A Website

[nyteschayde]

Creating the site with the Amiga is not a problem. Viewing it, however, may be. It is possible to make a site that looks fairly decent that is viewable on the Amiga as well as other places but it must be done using older website building techniques (ala without much or any JavaScript and little to no CSS).

That, of course, really limits modern web design in a big way. I just say this because it's what I do for a living. If you have a powerful enough Amiga, you can run things like NetSurf which will get you half way there with CSS support, but that browser has some serious issues in and of itself.

So short answer is yes. Long answer is above.

[nyteschayde]

I work with a team of UI Engineers for Netflix and not one of us would be caught dead using a tool like Dreamweaver. Lol, WYSIWYG editors are really for those people who are at the beginning to low intermediate level of web development experience.

I usually use something like Intype or TextMate or IntelliJ if I have to integrate with Java. But the CSS, HTML and JavaScript needs no command line completion by any UX engineer I've met in my career path in the last 3-5 years or so.

C'mon.  Nobody in their right mind is going to ditch Dreamweaver to create websites strictly with a text editor, unless they have masochistic tendencies *and* far too much free time on their hands.

[nyteschayde]

Yeah, nobody really uses tables if they can help it these days. Thats the main reason I have so much trouble even contemplating writing a site that's Amiga-pretty. That and not being able to use CSS.

Well, i am almost exclusively using notepad++ and filezilla (with an help from phtoshop/fireworks for image slicing) with check/retouch in firefox/firebug since am doing PHP development, and follow a table-less approach...

Saimon69

[nyteschayde]

Heavy use of tables and imagery are how old sites were made pretty. I remember doing them well.

Well, if you want to use an Amiga you could also use some of the Amiga web page creation programs such as Webplug, Pagemonster, Metalweb, etc

On the other hand, I remember back in 1995 we had a client that wanted to build his big company website. At that point in time, web designers were non existant marketwise in my country. So we hired a graphic designer who created the website just as a set of images. I remember spending lot of time reducing their colors just to cope with the low bandwith Internet had those days, and adding the basic html tags with a text editor to build the actual GIF based website

[nyteschayde]

It amuses me how modern web designers react to tables like vampires to crucifixes

Using tables takes extra typing, and provides much less flexibility in CSS; primarily because those elements (THEAD, TBODY, TR, TD) are less susceptible to styling.

The same or a more flexible layout can be had with a couple of DIVs or SPANs in combination with CSS. Even using display: table|table-cell on non table elements can be more flexible and enjoyable than coding up a bunch of behemoth table elements.