Talk:Authoring Webpages

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I have put my declaration of intent in the Rationale in the book's first pages (after the table of contents). This is a book about authoring, not about designing or programming. Some coding should be discussed (specifically, HTML mark-up and CSS coding), and the consequences of graphical design and typography will also be treated, though in optional chapters (you don't need to be able to see to create a webpage).

My weaknesses are in the didactic and linguistic realms: I am not a teacher, nor am I a native speaker of English.

I request that you will let me finish the main text of this more or less uninterupted, so that the unity of my message remains at least until the first draft of the work is finished. After that, I would be honoured if people took this work apart.Branko 22:20, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for starting this book. It looks good so far. I posted the "merge" notice, but now that I look closer, I think this might be different enough in emphasis to be worth keeping as 2 books -- perhaps Web Design should be the sequel to Authoring Webpages ? --DavidCary 03:41, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree that this should NOT be merged with Web Design; if anything, I started this as the anti-dote to books that treat web authoring like it is a graphic design or programming discipline.

I stopped working on this a while ago, not because I lost interest, but because I lost my idea of how to proceed. A lot of what I wrote here is in the subconscious of many a web expert, but little of it was ever put in words and collected in one place.

The thing with books, even if they are collaberately produced, is that they still need a single vision. A merge with the book you mentioned would probably blur that vision too much.

I have got a question for you. I wanted to work on this book until it had a modicum of editability, and only then link to it from other wikibooks pages. Do you think that is the right approach, or should I make it public earlier? Thanks for your insights.--Branko 17:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

If you don't want anyone else editing it, you should keep the text on your own computer. As soon as you post it to Wikipedia, you are giving us permission to edit it. I would like you to make it public as soon as you have an outline. If someone else can fill in part of the outline faster than you can, that's great.

I like the "Rationale" section. If everyone knows the scope of the book, then people other than yourself can recognize when well-meaning individuals start blurring the vision of the book. We can chop out bloat and move it to a more appropriate book.

I would like a little more detail on the exact scope of the book (what the book assumes the reader already knows Authoring webpages/Requirements, what the book is intended to teach, and what is outside the scope of the book). (Or is this something that only editors are interested in, not readers, and so should go on this talk page?). Naturally, for those people who really want to write up something that is just barely outside the scope of this book, it would be nice to point them towards other books more appropriate for those topics. --DavidCary 06:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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The work need a cleanup to move the structure and content away from the course format into a book format. --Panic (talk) 03:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC)