Mike McConnell wrote:
> > > Dreamweaver or Frontpage or Word-converted-to-html - that is the
> > > question, well kind of.
>
> > Dreamweaver now contains a routine to strip extraneous tagging out of HTML
> > generated by Word.
>
> I've found that this Dreamweaver facility isn't
> particularly good at 'cleaning up' Word HTML
It can be even worse: try it on a long Word document (like our student
handbook) and it locks up Dreamweaver and then Windows.
If I have to convert Word, I use tools like rtftohtml or its commercial
successors. But having timed myself converting Word documents, I've
calculated that our School of Management could be spending 4000
hours each year just in converting Word to HTML to update our web
site. So like the Irish peasant giving directions, I wouldn't start from
here (here being Word).
Personally I write everything in Dreamweaver (including lecture
notes and research papers), then import them into Word if I need to.
I'd advocate teaching first year students to write in HTML (and
soon XML) and never expose them to Word. If only CHEST would
negotiate multiple copy licences with Macromedia, like those
it offers to universities in the USA.
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Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast, School of
Management and Economics, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (UK)
mailto:[log in to unmask] Tel. 028 90335011 FAX: 028 90335156
http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/staff/dave/
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