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Why does the NYT story's Atlas have a fig-leaf whereas the poster's picture have none? Is this the same Atlas or is there soem photoshop censorship going on?

Picture from the blurb

This picture shows him without the leaf. Not sure where the leaf came from, but it does seem to be edited in.

From the FA: picture without leaf

Look at the little peepee on atlas!!!

LOL!!!

GNU m4

This is a little off-topic as the original question was about GUI designer packages (not whether whether vi was better, chaps!). However, if you want to generate large amounts of HTML pages quickly from standard templates and have the facility to regenerate it after tweaking the template, other posters are right in recommending automation. (Personally, I hate any package that requires me to move my hands from the mouse to the keyboard more than once per minute. :-)

I've used the m4 macro techniques outlined in the following references and find them excellent for standardising pages and removing the worst pains of handcoded HTML. Every day, I find new ways to extend them. The downsides are coping with m4's syntax requirements (mind your quotes!) and the initial work creating your macros. If this doesn't suit, try some of the many other HTML preprocessing utils (see Freshmeat).

• Mechanical web authoring
  
• htm4l
  
• GNU m4 homepage
  

As an aside, some of the nicest pages I've seen used extremely effective graphics way beyond what I could draw - but were a pain to load and use. I've seen simpler sites that did nifty things with TABLE layouts instead.


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