How beneficial is handcoding your website Handcoding your website	Visited: 691 Not rated Rate: Select 1 - Terrible 2 - Poor 3 - Average 4 - Good 5 - Outstanding
by Sania Gupta July 14, 2008

Hand Coding websites are suited to many of the companies. Mostly who wants the top quality of website for the value of their investment. Hand coding does not rely on pre-built templates or WYSIWYG software. It is under ultimate control over the coding structure of the website. Layouts of the website are purely constructed with CSS and HTML instead of tables. Web development has come with latest technology available with different quality and has come up into three different categories. They are Customize Hand – code, CSS based website along with professional website development software and templates based on website applications.

Designing a website, updating it change for quick and easy CSS layout for attributing the design and shared across pages to control style sheets. It is one of the good advantages over the software of WSIWYG. It is similar like a moving a design element as side bar. Simple codes change the style sheet and affect all the pages instantly. WSIWYG software requires HTML coding to change all the pages of the website. Pages will be updated automatically but depend upon the hours.

Hand – Code layout with CSS and HTML provides with great advantages by using tables based layout. It increases the chances of giving good ranking in the search engine with targeted keys. By reducing HTML mark up it will fasten the download all the time. Hand coded website will assistive technology to browse the internet with elements adding.

Some of the benefits of hand coding:

• Professional advice and expertise
• Extremely flexible design choices
• Professional design results – CSS styled
• Search engine friendly – It is a proper HTML with an external CSS style sheet which allows search engines the freedom to focus of important.
• Cross-browser compatible
• Loads fast
• Easier to Maintenance – CSS located with style sheet, update, change very easily and fastly.
• Latest technology - Less coding, smaller file size and faster download.
• Viewable on mobile devices

WYSIWYG web design software takes short time to develop the project from starting. This software keeps low cost and enables the website without any knowledge of HTML. HTML Mark up increases table based layouts to download web pages very easily. Some of them steps to be maintained while using WYSWYG program is to have small learning curve to save time and to understand the design of the site better. Secondly these sites are faster with its design view and tables.