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Weyoun the Dancing Borg
HTML writers are Car Mechanics.
You see, the Information Super Highway was a term coined in the late 90s
to describe the Internet. It was going to be BIG. It was going to solve
world hunger. It was going to stop all future wars. It was going to
become scientient. It was going to make you billions!
So every man and his dog joined this Internet thingy. Everyone wanted to
have their say. Everyone wanted to sell their product. Everyone wanted
to publish their works. Everyone wanted their own web page.
All those things depended on having a web page. You couldn't sell your
New Improved Shampoo bottle, because no one would know about it. You
have to announce these things you see. But how do you build one?
Mr 99%stereotype doesn't know. When you want to go across town, you
drive your car. When you want to write a letter, you use a word program.
When you want to make a picture, you use a paint program. When you want
to write an e-mail you use an e-mail program. So... you want to make a
web page... so... use a... web page program!!
Simple! That's how you use computers - you don't DO the hard work,
that's what they're for. You don't *build* the page, you draw it, you
write it. The program puts it on the Internet and voíla! Your own site
is now up and running.
That's how Mr 99%stereotype thinks. When people come here asking for
help, saying "learn HTML" instead of using a program, understand that
most of them are afriad of programming, don't know it exists, really
truely don't have the time etc, they don't want to be told something
that conflicts with their opinion. They ask a question, they want a nice
answer.
If you drive a car, do you know how it works? Could you build an engine
from scratch?
Could you do it with no instructions?
What if you did try it with no instructions. What would a mechanic say
if you went up to him and said you had no idea what you were doing, how
or why, but you need X done so Y will work?
Know what he'd say?
Read the Flipping Manual.
(ps I hope the tone of that semi-sarcastic "editoral" (hehe) had you
guessing which side I was on!)
You see, the Information Super Highway was a term coined in the late 90s
to describe the Internet. It was going to be BIG. It was going to solve
world hunger. It was going to stop all future wars. It was going to
become scientient. It was going to make you billions!
So every man and his dog joined this Internet thingy. Everyone wanted to
have their say. Everyone wanted to sell their product. Everyone wanted
to publish their works. Everyone wanted their own web page.
All those things depended on having a web page. You couldn't sell your
New Improved Shampoo bottle, because no one would know about it. You
have to announce these things you see. But how do you build one?
Mr 99%stereotype doesn't know. When you want to go across town, you
drive your car. When you want to write a letter, you use a word program.
When you want to make a picture, you use a paint program. When you want
to write an e-mail you use an e-mail program. So... you want to make a
web page... so... use a... web page program!!
Simple! That's how you use computers - you don't DO the hard work,
that's what they're for. You don't *build* the page, you draw it, you
write it. The program puts it on the Internet and voíla! Your own site
is now up and running.
That's how Mr 99%stereotype thinks. When people come here asking for
help, saying "learn HTML" instead of using a program, understand that
most of them are afriad of programming, don't know it exists, really
truely don't have the time etc, they don't want to be told something
that conflicts with their opinion. They ask a question, they want a nice
answer.
If you drive a car, do you know how it works? Could you build an engine
from scratch?
Could you do it with no instructions?
What if you did try it with no instructions. What would a mechanic say
if you went up to him and said you had no idea what you were doing, how
or why, but you need X done so Y will work?
Know what he'd say?
Read the Flipping Manual.
(ps I hope the tone of that semi-sarcastic "editoral" (hehe) had you
guessing which side I was on!)
