Chapter 40

ch37 A General Overview

Contents

40.1 Common Needs................... 307

40.2 Web Development Tools.............. 308

40.3 HTML Editors.................... 308

40.4 Uncommon: The Road Less Traveled...... 309

If your needs are common enough, you might be able to use a web develop-
ment tool to create your webpage or whole website.

That could save you a lot of time, and make it possible to hand off the
maintenance of the website to someone else (like the person who wanted
you to set it up for them).

40.1 Common Needs

What is “common enough”? Out of all the many ways things could look, or
be structured, there have emerged certain standard ways of doing things.

Blogging is probably the “poster child” for common. There are lots of blogs
out there.

Photo albums is another good example.

Social media, including things like Facebook, let people create web pages
where the emphasis is much more on content, to the extent that you actually

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