Comment Re:OSS makes no sense for this. (Score 1) 184
You're missing the point about an important aspect of oswd: Education. Think of the templates as an extension of basic HTML tutorials. A lot of people use oswd to get practical experience with HTML and CSS, "I wonder how he achieved this effect? Let's have a look"... This is also evident in the associated forums where the designers hang out to help beginners.
You may object that you can do this with every website already. Granted, but it's hell of a lot more difficult. some sites have really obfuscated code, sometimes deliberately so, sometimes because a CMS engine doesn't care. At oswd, everything is conveniently bundled (ok, ideally) in one or two neatly formatted and commented files.
Finally, think of situations like this: You're the poor webmaster for your workgroup or department. You're really a scientist/student, but you've familarized yourself with HTML enough to be picked by the PHB to do it. Now you can either put out a crappy site, or you can at least use a decent oswd design and customize it to your needs. Never will you have the option to hire an expensive freelance webdesigner!
You may object that you can do this with every website already. Granted, but it's hell of a lot more difficult. some sites have really obfuscated code, sometimes deliberately so, sometimes because a CMS engine doesn't care. At oswd, everything is conveniently bundled (ok, ideally) in one or two neatly formatted and commented files.
Finally, think of situations like this: You're the poor webmaster for your workgroup or department. You're really a scientist/student, but you've familarized yourself with HTML enough to be picked by the PHB to do it. Now you can either put out a crappy site, or you can at least use a decent oswd design and customize it to your needs. Never will you have the option to hire an expensive freelance webdesigner!
