RE: FN-FORUM Frontpage

date posted 25th August 2000 13:13

On 25/8/00 at 9:04 am, [EMAIL REMOVED] (Morgan Richards) wrote:

> Anyone use GoLive 4.0 or the new 5.0 version (is it released yet?)

I use GoLive 4.0, amongst other things :-) The version 5.0 sounds like a
real winner from what I hear, lots of good features to speed up
workflow. It's out, but deliveries are only just starting to come
through. I haven't ordered it myself yet, but I might...

> I have used it but preffer DW cause I know what is on all the Menus
> and so forth. Seems like a valid tool? Any comments?

I use Dreamweaver too, and Freeway...I'm working my way up to BBEdit, I
think, but I guess I'll always use a WYSIWYG editor for some of the work
(Javascript, rollovers and the like)

I like Dreamweaver very much; it seems the 'purer' of the two to me,
inasmuch as you can design away with boxes to your heart's content and,
at the end, just convert the lot to a perfectly ordinary HTML table. And
if you make sure everything's aligned properly, and touching wherever
possible, code bloat is minimal. I also find that using Dreamweaver and
BBEdit together, which, with the great linking feature is one mouse
click, is teaching me a lot about HTML.

GoLive was the first introduction to the Web I had, and I still have a
soft spot for it; in many ways it's easier than Dreamweaver to use, and
providing you don't go sprinkling design elements all over the page, and
keep them nicely aligned, it's OK. I'm sure a lot of the stick that
these editors have had concerning their code is due to people not
bothering about items aligning and so on; naturally, if you put one
items willy-nilly anywhere on the page, you get dozens of redundant
table cells full of spacer GIFs and so on, but a simple bit of alignment
will clean it up beyond all recognition, and it's only the sort of
alignment that makes good looking sites anyway...

I think they're both valid tools. I mean, you can type directly into the
source window in Dreamweaver and just watch what happens in the layout
window if you like...you can't get much purer than that...like having a
text editor with a visual preview built in.

best wishes,

Paul

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