Dreamweaver vs. Front Page
MadKowDZs
U.S.A.
I have been designing webpages, mostly for myself for a few years now and the two web design programs I have used are Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Front Page. So, which of these two do you think is better? Personally I like Dreamweaver is better.
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WYSIWYG can go to hell. Bust out the old school text-HTML editors and code from there. Nothing like getting down and dirty with the code.
Even for straight-up coding I still open up Dreamweaver because it organizes everything well and color-codes the code for me and numbers the lines. Our campus webmaster does the same.
Once you get it down, there's no reason to use it because you're just slowing yourself down. Period. Even if you're a wizard at HTML, point and click is faster than typing the entire string.
Dreamweaver is the way to go.
No, it wasn't. Anything I code in HTML/DHTML/ASP/VBScript/JScript/Java/C/C++/ProLog/CSS/PHP is written in Notepad.
I prefer not to use WYSIWYG's or IDE's.
I know notepad CAN be used, but... EWW!
If you don't make the bugs, there is no need for one
Dreamweaver is amazing, even if your just coding. Miles ahead of notepad, lightyears ahed of frontpage
Frontpage is awful, the pits, worst program ever.
I have dreamweaver... wellw orth the money, but I mostly code by hand.
WYSIWYG really doesn't work when you are going across many formats as firstly it just won't display properly when you are trying to edit it, and secondly, when it is all server side script, you can't see it anyway.
WYSIWYG editors also tend to add lots of pointless crap to the code and basically waste time and space.
The only time I ever find myself using a WYSIWYG editor is to draw a semi-complex table, thats pretty much it as now due to the mix of code WYS isn't always WYG.
NS
Perfectly said.
When you're in the business to make money with web development, as I am on the side, you learn <b>very</b> quickly that efficiency means more than pride. Getting the job done is markedly more important than stroking your ego by doing it in notepad.
I'm not very advanced, but I completely agree. Read sig
Although, it is a bit of a lie since I attend school 8 to 12 hours a day.
I don't see why some of you cannot comprehend the simple little fact that for some people the keyboard is the prefered method of doing HTML. Quit trying to argue and just accept the fact that not everyone works and thinks along your same lines and you shouldn't think that your limitations with a text editor apply to everyone. People like myself are very deft with a keyboard, and you cannot tell me it's any faster to grab the mouse, click a button, and then type "http://www.short-media.com" and "Short-Media" than it is to never take your fingers off the keyboard and just type "< a href="http://www.short-media.com" > Short-Media < /a >. Sure, there are places where the GUI makes things slightly faster, but we're talking about a couple of seconds and those two seconds are made up for rather quickly with all the other things that are done faster w/ the keyboard.
Also, for very common things you can do macros or key combos to aid in filling in snippets of code.
Does using a text editor equate to pride? Well, for some it might, but definitely not all. Maybe people just like it. No matter which program is used to automatically generate HTML there is almost always clean-up that needs to be done by hand so skipping the middle-man isn't a huge leap in logic.
Personally, I use both text and GUI editors so I find them both helpful, but I favor text over GUI. I mainly use GUI for tables and nesting of tables because in that case it is markedly faster (for me) to use the GUI but on the other stuff I just flip the tab over to text and continue coding or refresh the code in UltraEdit so it sees the outside changes and then proceed.
It's possible to use Dreamweaver without the WYSIWYG interface (code only), and when you type < strong > for example, when you do the 2nd > Dreamweaver automatically puts the < /strong >. Now tell me thats slower than doing the whole thing in Notepad. And, it makes for better programming practice as you don't go forgetting to close hrefs etc.
~Cyrix
I pretty much go half and half, code by hand/wysiwyg.
Most people making webpages know the code regardless of how they code, so why not use the best possible tools to do your work? Not only do you save time, but you also have tools to check your work, fix tags/spelling etc etc. Its like participating in a Nascar race with a civic. You might be just as good a driver as any of the other competitors, but your car is just too slow.
I can make macros for all sorts of things.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking dreamweaver. It's a fine product. I'm just trying to get it across that the people who seem to think that dreamweaver is far superior to text editing aren't right and aren't wrong. It all depends on the person. For some Dreamweaver is best while others prefer text editors. It's whatever makes one feel most comfortable and whatever allows him to do his work the quickest. For me that's normally a text editor. For you maybe it's Dreamweaver.