 Re: It never ends. . . . yeah right -
07-15-2003
, 02:36 AM
Well, thanks for all teh responses. Most of you are more fa,miliar with teh technilogical side of the internet than I am, but I would like to offer a few more 'evidence' type of comments. Then I will let you all reply and end the thread so we can all get back to work.
1) Page maker is no longer. In Design is the replacement. My brother is curently at Humboldt State University majoring in Environmental Interpretation, and thuis has to take all of the graphics and presentation classes. They did NO web stuff, but for all otehr aplication, such as billboards, state fishery exhibitions (The ones you see on teh wals, etc., at State parks) the entire class was adobe. They used photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Acrobat. Apple gives all schools great deals on teir machines, but many schools and Universoties have equal PCs. In my home town, the school districts are moving to PCs only because they are dominate and thus more practical for students to learn how to work with. It is too hard to justify from a teaching standpoint using MACs any longer ( In grades K-12). In the high schools I recently taught in, there is a mixture still of older MACS, but theya re now being replaced by PCs.
Linux/Unix for networking in the schools in my county are pretty much history, replaced by MS XP Server/Client. However, I am glad to see Linux taking off in the PC market because I think MS is way to into everything, and that scares me.
Front Page is a professional joke, but when you can integrate net with it, such as VB and the other stuff, it becomes pretty strong. Of course you can build a site anyway you want and it will run on NET infastructure, and for the comnet about how hard MS prodicts are to learn, true, but things always get easier: DOS, Win 3.11, Manual IRQ settings, plug and play, adn now to Win XP and USB. You get the point.
And my very point is that MM will have a real place with all the MS products, even is FP does eventual swollow up Dreamweaver if and when MS takes over with its NET, given that we all start coding web pages in Flash.
I seriously doubt the entire web will move over to Flash, like 90% of the MM website though. It just isn't going to happen. PEople will finally figure out that Flash is good at certain things, like advertising and if needed, moving diagrams, like the Flash tutorial. But they will also relaize that having a moving picture on your main web page distracts people and makes it harder for their eyes to concentrate on specific information, and they will wise up and stop using it for simply eye candy appeal. I'm not talking about all webs, only information driven sites where content is the main attraction.
OK, well, glad to hear from you all. Let's hear your closing comments. At least we all agree on the most important thing--MM's website needs to offer us a NON Flash version that is more efficient for us to use. It always happens like this though. When a company feels it has a safe somewhat of a monopoly on a product, they stop giving its users what they want and instead give them what ever they feell will primote their product.
Ignore my stupidity--it's biological!
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