What You See Is What You Get

• Wix, Google Sites, GoDaddy Website Builder etc.
• These are all examples of WYSIWYG builders.
• WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get

What You See Is What You Get...

What You See Is What You Get...

Or is it?

• You can use Microsoft Word to build webpages as it features a WYSIWYG editor in it.
• However, be aware that it generates nonsense HTML and doesn't look like what it is supposed to look like.

• You can use Microsoft Word to build webpages as it features a WYSIWYG editor in it.
• However, be aware that it generates nonsense HTML and doesn't look like what it is supposed to look like.

• So why do we bother with code when we can use WYSIWYG?
• WYSIWYG editors Wix provides a very stable and powerful editing platform that although it takes time to learn it takes less time than learning code.
• Wix does provide an almost perfect WYSIWYG editor
• But the positives stop there

• Code on the other hand always gives the same result, the result that the developer coded. You can tweak a website built with code to perfection where as one with a WYSIWYG its very tricky to get right.
• Writing code allows the developer to write smaller webpages that download faster (for example, my website loads in less than 100 milliseconds) because they can optimise the website
• Writing code allows the developer to add in extra code such as server side code to automate tasks or provide additional features such as database connectivity and more.
• Code is also cheaper - you can setup your web server at home for nothing (as long as you have a computer capable of running one lying around!) whereas most good WYSIWYG editors cost to buy (Microsoft Word) or to use (Wix)

• Granularity is the most obvious benefit of code. This is a term that means that you have control over everything in the webpage or website. 
• This even means to the point of managing the web server or a database on the actual server, and can limit what the site can do.