Friday, December 5, 2008

Is it Rewarding to Work with Dreamweaver?

By Dirk den Besten

The rewards of using Adobe Dreamweaver over simple html coding from start are gigantic. Adobe Dreamweaver generates a lot of the coding for the user ready to us, which makes it extremely practical for beginners, for those who have no inspiration on what they want to make, but also for people who do know how to code html, they can always insert it to the written code a lot simpler.

You can change between code view and the design view and designer can even have both in the same screen to keep tabs on any changes that are made in the editor. When you save your webpage, you can view your page in Firefox or Internet Explorer to see what it would look like online.

If you do edit any code, there are tools on Dreamweaver that help to correct any mistakes in the syntax. There are so many great features in Dreamweaver that you would not get in ordinary html editors.

Another great tool in Adobe Dreamweaver is the layout instrument tool. Dreamweaver will give an idea where you can place your navigation, your menus, your images, etc. Dreamweaver really helps you to get the most out of the internet.

The vast majority of professional Web Developers wouldn't dream of using Dreamweaver Dreamweaver's code view because it generates the XHTML / CSS code for you, and this results in code that is at best adequate and at worst bloated and over-complicated.

There is no substitute for having a solid understanding of standards-compliant XHTML / CSS and writing the code by hand, using which ever text editor you feel comfortable with, whether this is Dreamweaver's own code view or something else.

Adobe Dreamweaver is like a plaything and it is very useful when you are starting out with web design. Starters might find the design view instinctive. And even the controls for connecting to a database might be practical for basic tasks and also the FTP software in Adobe Dreamweaver which synchronizes local and remote copies of a site's files is very useful. Surely Dreamweaver is handier than most of the other famous FTP clients out there.

You can't really compare Adobe Dreamweaver with any product. Dreamweaver can be put into a class of itself as a kind of application you use before you learn how to code properly. Drag & drop interfaces for coding just don't feel right for me - if you can't build the system yourself, then you don't know how it will actually behave when it goes live.

The benefits of using Dreamweaver over plain html coding from scratch are endless. Dreamweaver can be put into a class of itself as a kind of application you use before you learn how to code properly. There are so many great features that you would not get in ordinary html editors. Dreamweaver really outstands all other HTML editors. - 16492

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