What is advanced webcoding?
Webcoding is the skillset maded with the various skills required to convert sophisticated designs into functional HTML webpages. There are essentially two ways to do this:

The first method is to automate the process of code-writing by using a WYSIWYG authoring application. There are many good applications available, Dreamweaver from Macromedia, or Frontpage from Microsoft, to name 2 of the most popular. The largest drawback to using an application is you are limited by the capabilities of that application. HTML itself is capable of much more than any one application can automate.

The second method is to write raw HTML. This allows much greater control over how a webpage is rendered in a browser. Many things that were thought of as "hard to do" or "impossible" (we don’t know the meaning of the word) are actually quite achievable in raw HTML and custom written javascript. The drawback to this method is that it is slower, but the resulting product is modular and of much higher precision and quality.

The webcoders of Chino.Com author webpages using raw HTML, we usually have to in order to deliver HTML components that look exactly like the original design document, across multiple browsers. In many cases we get requests for pixel-accurate placement.

Coding in raw html is an important skill when authoring websites that take into consideration that a webpage is not a print document. When designed and programmed correctly, content can re-flow, resize, and even re-purpose to fit the brand and size of the browser. This is now especially important with the advent of devices with smaller viewing surfaces (PalmOS, WinCE) and larger ones (WebTV on HDTV).

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