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I've given up trying to get people to understand that writing fundamental code and markup is far easier than CMS/library/framework hopping. My company created two large web sites that you visit at least once a month and no one believes it's HTML and CSS is all handcrafted. To this day I'm still told what we do is impossible even when I showed them the source.

That was years ago when I did that. I won't do it again.

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If you think it's easier, why won't you do it again? Maintainability?

Do not think we still don't do it. My line was to state that I have not bothered to explain anything to anyone for years, not that we haven't done it for years. We would never use code generators cause we're professional programmers and know how to create our own output.

While I do not have issues with using some well-developed library, depending on whose library it is, we are more likely to only use it till we develop our own.

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