The Code Window
Craig Grannell, Todd Marks, George McLachlan, Matt Stephens, Jerome Turner · Apress eBooks · 2002
One thing that almost universally scares people when they start to work with the web is code. Whether it’s the barrage of acronyms you have to contend with — ASP, PHP, XML, HTML, JSP, CSS, and so on — or the fact that using code seems so alien to graphic design. However, without learning how to manipulate code directly, your web designs will often fail to be cutting edge, and will rarely be as optimized and streamlined as they could be. Code also enables you to do a whole bunch of cool things that are difficult — or even impossible — when using visual editing tools. In the long run, many of these can also save you time and effort, thus making a bit of initial pain very much worth your while. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.