Dream Weaver

[firemonkey]

Does anyone have any tips on useing this program?

[lysergic]

Try <a href="http://www.dwzone.net/" target="_blank">http://www.dwzone.net/</a> as a starting point.

[ScottieM3]

yeah don't use it

use a text editor like gwd text is great:
<a href="http://www.gwdsoft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gwdsoft.com/</a>

[WebHead]

[quote]Originally posted by ScottieM3:
<strong>yeah don't use it

use a text editor like gwd text is great:
<a href="http://www.gwdsoft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gwdsoft.com/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

But why type in all that code manually into a text editor when you could just use Dreamweaver, GoLive, or Frontpage?

Btw,.. I found this page awhile back with some cool starter tutorials for Dreamweaver 4. Check it out here: <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/tutorials/" target="_blank">http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/tutorials/</a>

[ScottieM3]

[quote]Originally posted by WebHead:
<strong>

But why type in all that code manually into a text editor when you could just use Dreamweaver, GoLive, or Frontpage?

Btw,.. I found this page awhile back with some cool starter tutorials for Dreamweaver 4. Check it out here: <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/tutorials/" target="_blank">http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/productinfo/tutorials/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>


Code Generated from a wysiwyg is horrible... it does not reuse itself, uses overkill type scripts, and is formated very funky this all causes allot of unnecesary overhead for the clients browser to process, in turn slowing down the page.
DreamWeaver is the lesser of the evils, whereout it is not as bad.
I've spent many hours repairing bad code written by wysiwyg's.. its a sad thing. Hand code is always cleaner, because it runs the way you want it to.. not the way the wysiwyg thinks it should.

[WebHead]

[quote]Originally posted by ScottieM3:
<strong>


Code Generated from a wysiwyg is horrible... it does not reuse itself, uses overkill type scripts, and is formated very funky this all causes allot of unnecesary overhead for the clients browser to process, in turn slowing down the page.
DreamWeaver is the lesser of the evils, whereout it is not as bad.
I've spent many hours repairing bad code written by wysiwyg's.. its a sad thing. Hand code is always cleaner, because it runs the way you want it to.. not the way the wysiwyg thinks it should. </strong><hr></blockquote>

True. But like you say, Dreamweaver is not so bad. In fact, Dreamweaver doesn't even really do that at all. It generates pretty clean code for the most part. I'd say the worst culprit of that would be FrontPage. Geez,.. talk about tons and tons of unneccessary proprietary garbldee-gook. Dontcha just love editing FrontPage html? Or even trying to find the code your looking for from within FrontPage generated code? Yeeck.

[+Daemon+]

When I create a page I only use Dreamweaver for tables, makes table management very ez. I also use the dreamweaver editor just for the colors to make it ez to read the code. Other than that html editors put in to much crap, so when you use these programs look int he code and remove the crap you dont need.

[CodeDragon]

I tend to use a combination of Dreamweaver (for table and layer design, esp. when using Photoshop or Fireworks generated image tables) and Scriptworx, as it gives me a lot of control over both the HTML and any other code I see fit to use (PHP, ASP etc.).

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