!DOCTYPE html Kinda!
As your skills progress, your clients will see this, and naturally they will want greater options with their Websites. One such option is the Custom Admin Panel, as opposed to bloatware “CMS” that on the surface looks great, but will never index. Google’s sandbox and all that noise!
I was looking at some cutting edge coding videos that were demonstrating how to code responsiveness into all the options of an Admin Panel so that you can not only work on a 65 inch Samsung Smart TV, but a Samsung flip phone as well.
All of a sudden the site disappeared from the galaxy like some rouge PHP script on the fritz. I kid you not; my host reached up to the top of the index.html file and deleted the <!DOCTYPE html> and the site came back up. As he was working in Chrome, one word came to mind … PAR!
When I started out designing and building Websites, I worked exclusively with “FrontPage” … for one day! What a mess! I gave “Bluefish” and “KompoZer” a try for another day or two and then started writing hard code with “Gedit”, the “Gnome” text editor. After a couple of years I stumbled on “Sublimetext”, and I’ve never looked back.
I’ve toyed with some frameworks to facilitate speed, and mostly settled on “Bootstrap”. I had long ago given up on any type of CMS, as cool as they may all be. Now I’ve given up on Bootstrap, as it has become larger and more complex.
I’m now back to just hard coding in “HTML5″ & “CSS3″ as this is truly the state of the art! Or so I thought … until I saw how you have to “sometimes” delete the very first line of code to get your Website to display cross platform. Man, you can’t think this stuff up, I dare you to even try!
