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New web standards require new design software
An
Engineering Adventures product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Dec 14, 2004
Changes to the international website design and accessibility standards mean that the traditional editors, that have predominantly been used to design website in the past, are no longer effective.
Ongoing changes to the international website design and accessibility standards mean that the traditional WYSIWYG editors, that have predominantly been used to design website in the past, are no longer effective.
New, more powerful techniques are starting to take over.
It is now virtually impossible for a beginner to create an acceptable website using a WYSIWYG editor and most experienced designers are suffering because their interfaces have become far too cluttered and slow.
Straight2web is the first of a powerful new breed of automated site generators that have taken a completely different approach to creating websites and are more suited to designing for the new standards.
The standards themselves provide for low bandwidth designs that dramatically improve the speed and compliance of a website and allow all of the website structure to be defined within simple stylesheets.
They also provide the correct format for every site to be accessible to people with disabilities and therefore comply with the latest accessibly legislation.
Straight2web is specifically designed to work with these standards and has a powerful front end that allows anyone to very quickly enter and manipulate as much content as want.
The content is kept completely separate from the design but by using a pre-designed template or simply adding a few custom tags into an existing template, it can be instantly built into a complete website in any way you desire.
Moreover, many complicated tasks such as adding menus, accessibility or search engine scripts are fully automated thus saving huge amounts of time and guaranteeing an up to date and reliable site.
Sites can now be produced and updated in a fraction of the time it would previously have taken and even the most inexperience of users can be sure they will create a top quality website that need never become old fashioned or out of date.
To find out more you can visit www.straight2web.co.uk and download a free trial version.
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