Alex Johnson

iWeb?

 

“Hey! This site is made with iWeb? What kind of developer are you?!”


Well, a pragmatic one...


Building a beautiful web site by hand is a lot of work. Since this site is just static, there’s not a lot of value in building a perfectly crafted HTML/CSS site. I’ll never have to use code to dynamically alter the pages, so the ability to quickly and easily update the site with an application like iWeb is far more valuable than perfectly clean markup that is easy to manipulate with server-side code.


In short, I believe in using the appropriate tool for the job. For example, when building a large, highly distributed and/or concurrent application, I prefer Java. When putting a web GUI on a database, Ruby on Rails works great and is really fast to develop with. When you need to deploy just about anywhere, PHP is a good choice.


Every problem is different, and should be evaluated before assuming any particular solution.