Editable through admin panel website templates (HTML, CSS, JS..) Good or bad?

Personally, I think it would depend on the complexity of the website What you're talking about here is directly editing the structure (and potentially behaviour) of a live website. Sure, it may take longer to make the changes on your development server before rolling them out but if there's any chance of breaking either the appearance or functionality of the site then I'd think definitely think twice.

Personally, I think it would depend on the complexity of the website. What you're talking about here is directly editing the structure (and potentially behaviour) of a live website. Sure, it may take longer to make the changes on your development server before rolling them out but if there's any chance of breaking either the appearance or functionality of the site then I'd think definitely think twice.

You shouldn't be allowed to modify the entire layout of your site through the site itself in my opinion. The reasons being the lack of version control and the inability to preview what you are doing, which translate into the inability to come back to an older version. Plus if you modify it locally, you are allowed to make errors that break everything, a luxury you can't always afford if you're doing it directly through the website.

Being able to add/remove content through the website is great though, it would be very painful to update a blog by modifying your HTML each time!

I once created a site that did exactly that. (Well, without any option for source control - had to learn that one the hard way...) Looking back at what I did there, a few things come to mind: It was a traditional website with information about my sports club, that only changed occasionally, not a web app in the modern sense. I wanted to be able to apply fixes even though I had no access to my dev machine (because it was a private project, I was at work, and ftp connections were not allowed by the comapny proxy).

For those specific reasons, the approach was a good solution. Today I would use one of the many good frameworks for this purpose (Joomla, Drupal etc) instead of coding it myself. On important item: I was able to edit the pages that were used to generate the main site, but not the generation program or my admin pages.

For those, I had to use my dev machine and upload file changes by ftp. I think it is a good approach, if done correctly (my implementation certainly wasn't).

Editing HTML/CSS/JS files through your web browser can make things easier, as long as the editing implementation is neat, organized, idiot-proof, and keeps track of revisions. A major issue to consider is security. The inability to modify actual files from the content management system in most software packages is a security precaution.

Learn to use a version control system effectively and efficiently. Tools like git or bzr can take care of a lot of the tedious stuff automatically, like package building, uploading, etc.

I hate it. Web development, much like the web servers themselves, shouldn't be "comfortable". Web development should be a mother gentle caressing scary experience.It should sound, look, even taste dangerous.

Neophyte web developers should be put through their paces learning the subtler aspects of their chosen text editor before they are even allowed to open a web browser; and not be allowed near a graphical web browser before 6 months of working only using lynx for debugging. Laziness is our bane.No more, I say. Edit: This is, perhaps, a bit tangential to the issue at hand.

It should also be mentioned that visual identity that is too simple to change will change too often, leading to confused and frustrated users.

Didn't think so. What a way to encourage people. I'd bet my laptop that we'd have half the good web devs we have today if this was law.

– Lucas Jones Jul 12 '09 at 19:41 We might only have had half the good web devs today, yes; this point I'll concede. However, we wouldn't have a tenth of the bad ones. – Williham Totland Jul 12 '09 at 20:17 1 Hm, following your logic, we should still code desktop apps in assembler, because C makes it too easy... – Treb Jul 12 '09 at 20:40.

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