FW: HTML authoring tool for creating HTML Company Newsletter

["Jessica N. Lange" <jlange -at- oee -dot- com>]

Andriene.

The difficulty in creating columns is a limitation of HTML itself
rather than any tool. The only way to do columns is with tables.

And for what it's worth, here's my opinion: columns as done in
print newsletters, where text flows from one column down
then up to another, don't really translate well to on-screen viewing,
That requires the viewer to scroll down, then up...with the text
in the next column distractingly available to the eye.

Looking around the web, I find most pages that present text meant
to be read (as opposed to a whole bunch of links) show the
text in a single column, with perhaps call-outs in the "column"
to one side. For an example, take a look at Aquent Magazine
(http://www.aquentmagazine.com/home.html)
Their front page uses columns for the "table of contents,"
(done with tables).  Once you jump to an article, it is
a single long column of text.


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Jessica N. Lange mailto:jlange -at- oee -dot- com
Technical Communicator, Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andriene Ferguson
> Subject: HTML authoring tool for creating HTML Company Newsletter

> Has anyone heard of a specialized HTML authoring tool for creating
> Company newsletter type documents? .......Just wondering if anyone can
suggest an
> authoring tool that is better suited for newsletter layout.