Web Designing and Notepad

I’m a web designer by trade. It’s what I do for a living and what I do to bring in a meager income to partially support my children.

So many times I read about web designers bragging that they still code their html in Notepad. About 95% of people making this claim are flat-out lying. Only a moron with NO BRAINS and no time-management skills would code an entire website solely in Notepad.

I know from experience… being in the field that web designers use programs like Coffee Cup, Web Studio, Dreamweaver, GoLive and Homesite. Some archaic douche bags still use Frontpage but they’re in the minority.

Some people might code SOME of their html in ‘code’ view in these HTML editors, but they do it much like me. If I’m doing a complexed layout using CSS design instead of tables, then I’ll type the html by hand and keep checking it in WYSIWYG view. But most people still use tables which suck. There’s VERY FEW situations when a table is a necessity but mostly they’re crap and are horrendous for search engine optimisation. Anyone using them for a website layout in this day and age knowing there is something better just needs a slap.

So please… if you’re claiming you use Notepad please stop lying because the chances are that you don’t (at least to make complete websites).

A Blog Post About Blogging

Of late I’ve started to fall in love with WordPress. The sheer amount of functionality provided out of the base package, combined with the awesome power of the hundreds of plugins is definitely making my life more fulfulling.

I recently heard about a guy who earns a six-figure income from blogging. No doubt I would LOVE to do that… even though the $451 a day he earns from Google Ads dwarfs my approximately $7 per day… I would blog if I made no money and nobody EVER came to my website.

For instance… my day job is as a web developer. Content management systems are a huge part of what I do every day. I’ve tried all of the major ones. My boss was very apprehensive on using WordPress in a professional environment as a CMS. It took the crashing of a server with Drupal on it and the time it took me to construct that site, to get him to agree to have the same site rebuilt in WordPress.

On my WordPress Plugins page, I’ve listed all of the WordPress plugins I use on various personal websites. So far I’ve used nearly all of them on work-sites in the last three weeks that the boss has agreed to allow WordPress in the workplace.

The flexibility and raw power is making WordPress one of the great loves of my life. I’m not really sure what makes me feel like this either hahahaha. Maybe it’s just having that administrative control to do what I want, where I want and how I want.

I can tell anyone out there who’s considering building a static OR interactive website with one of the major ones like Drupal, Joomla, PHPNuke, PostNuke, Xoops or anything else… FORGET that. Use WordPress. The plugins are where it’s at.