Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer- P12a:It was a simple solution to a complex problem. On one side, thousands of designers and art directors are eager to take their talents to the Web but aren’t sure how. On the other, web agencies could not find enough good web designers to get their work done. | Taking Your Talent to the Web 201 redesigned or updated. At other times you will be creating a site for someone else to update. All these situations are best served if you comment the code as you write it. Referring once again to the code used earlier in this chapter -- Begin menu bar. -- table border 0 cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 align center tr td a href img src width 20 height 20 border 0 alt Reading a td td a href img src width 20 height 20 border 0 alt Writing a td td a href img src width 20 height 20 border 0 alt Arithmetic a td tr table -- End menu bar. -- Begin menu bar and End menu bar are the comments that help you or a teammate or successor figure out what was intended by all that wacky HTML. They are always enclosed within -- special brackets -- so that they will not be displayed on the web page. Even if you routinely work alone say as a freelancer comments will help you find your way when you return to an HTML document you haven t looked at for six months. Professional web designers always comment their markup. In Chapter 2 we mentioned that designers could save bandwidth by removing white space from their HTML documents. We also mentioned that most of us refrain from this practice because it interferes with the need to continually update existing web documents. Comments exist to facilitate that need. No further comment. 202 HOW HTML the Building Blocks of Life Itself WYSIWYG My Aunt Moira s Left Foot WYSIWYG My Aunt Moira s Left Foot We ve all seen the ads Create web pages without learning a single HTML tag We ve also seen ads that tell us how to lose weight while eating candy bars all day long. Strangely enough we know no one who s lost weight that way. Today s What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYG programs are far more powerful than the early lame-o programs that gave WYSIWYG a bad name. But most professional web designers continue to use text-based web editors. Why In a
