RE: I'm taking my marbles and going home...

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

If you want to get serious about web development, forget the tools
(DreamWeaver, FrontPage, Web Content
Management Systems)..they are just tools. Learn the technologies and
programmer stuff...asp, java, oracle, XML/XSL/XSLT, VBA, C++, server
side/client side, etc (the stuff that is hard).

The woods are full of (unemployed) people that know the easy stuff.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656



-----Original Message-----
From: Harold B. Gill [mailto:hal -at- web500 -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:26 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: I'm taking my marbles and going home...



Hi Pat and whirlers,

I feel your pain, Pat. I am just at the beginning of a global job search
as my company has just laid me off. Writing content for a Web content
management vendor was a small part of the many tasks that I performed
while managing the work of one other technical writer. We've produced a
very nice Online Help system/Reference Guide using Frame/WebWorks. It's
so nice that I am going to enter it in STC-France competition just
before my severance runs out. 

There might be demand for your skills and I think it would be wise to
know DreamWeaver, FrontPage, and if you know a bit about the Web Content
Management Systems that are out there that might help.


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