Dreamweaver

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-11-10 07:49pm

Has anyone used "Dreamweaver" to make advanced websites? Is it worth the money?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-11-10 07:53pm

I liked it better than Frontpage, if that's any consolation.

EDIT: Though I'm sure anything's better than Frontpage.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-10 08:05pm

Define "advanced", as in, made completely of PHP or something?

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-11-10 08:10pm

Slartibartfast wrote:Define "advanced", as in, made completely of PHP or something?

More than a regular html website. Something like starwars.com

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2004-11-10 08:25pm

Yeah, Dreamweaver is a useful too. I have the education version, which I got for free. It's pretty decent. You will need a lot of programming knowledge to build an advanced site, but Dreamweaver does come with kickass templates you can use.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2004-11-10 09:35pm

Dreamweaver is really nice. It's very useful, especially on splitscreen mode.

Frontpage really isn't such a horrible program as people say, but it leaves junk in the code and has compatability problems. Dreamweaver as far as I know does not have any of those issues.

I would never use it if I had to pay for it though >_>

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-10 10:21pm

Well, if you're going to use a WYSIWYG editor at all, all I can say the only two real alternatives are Dreamweaver and Golive. They really don't make any unnecessary changes to the files you edit (unlike Frontpage, which fucks everything up even if all you did was add an image or a letter). Dreamweaver 1.0's main selling point was exactly that, and only the more recent versions of Golive do it now.

Star Wars site is mostly scripting, but even making if you use a lot of active pages, you've got to design them at some point using static pages, and I know that DW has advanced features for active pages.

But if there's one thing I don't like about DW is that it's a big of a memory hog. If you open an HTML over 1 megabyte or so, it slows down to the point of crashing. No idea if Golive has that problem, either way, you're going to want to use either of them.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-11-10 10:33pm

Thanks, all. I'll have to think a bit longer on this purchase.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-11-10 11:23pm

Dreamweaver is worth the money. IMHO you really should master the HTML/XHTML first before splurging on it since it is a lot of money and it won't really help you if you don't know precisely what you're doing already.

Once you do know what you're doing it is an excellent layout tool to speed up design (though its markup is still not as elegant or clean as a hand-coded site). Then you can start graduating to learning how to do dynamic content

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-11-11 12:20am

Dreamweaver is great. Especially if you have education discount

It's one of the best commercial web page editors out there. Take Frontpage, remove all the (billions of) bugs and screwups, make it easier to use and standards compliant, and give it advanced features and you'll start approaching Dreamweaver

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2004-11-11 12:24am

Yeah, Frontpage is shit. Plus it doesnt play well with anything non-IE.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-11-11 01:33pm

Dreamweaver is a piece of sex, get it forthwith, if not sooner.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-11-11 03:54pm

Or, if you can't get it, use Vim

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