(September 9, 2018 at 10:10 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: They're better now than they used to be. I remember the last few versions of Dreamweaver (remember that?Yeah. To start with, I'd say any website that actually does anything is going to need a SQL database. There goes a fully auto-designed site out the window already.) generated mostly well-formed code.
I think, though, for what they're used for (simple brochure-like sites, or small things like blogs), the code they generate isn't very important. I wouldn't consider a site made with Wix's editor to be anything mission critical. For anything 'real', with real, proprietary business logic in the back end, you're going to have actual designers and developers working on it, writing code themselves (with appropriate library/framework support, of course).
These days, my focus is on really well-organized databases, and on the UI for getting new data into the system-- sound processing, text scanning and OCR, integrating with Android apps, etc. The front-end stuff is the easy part.
Especially in .ASP, because masterpages and .CSS themes make templating super-simple.
