[Dynamics]

I do mostly editing and compositing, and wanted to get into web design and was thinking of dreamweaver. . .but I don't know the difference yet between that and say Adobe GoLive . Differences from a users' stand point on these ?

Thx.

[Macola]

There's a bunch of threads here covering the comparison...try searching for Dreamweaver AND GoLive.

[shandaman]

I would learn to code by hand, a company that has some good training for that is... Web Design - 3d Training, Maya, Photoshop, Mudbox, Max (Powered by CubeCart) - HTML and Web Design Training

[JennPav]

Great link, thanks!

[besson3c]

I honestly think that Dreamweaver is an app designed in such a way that it will soon become obsolete.

I see things going this way:

Static content:

- template tools such as Rapidweaver, iWeb, Web 2.0 apps

Dynamic content:

- CMS driven, possible standardization on tools in this arena
- hand-coded templates
- custom programming

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

CMS driven, possible standardization on tools in this arena

You think there's going to be a standard CMS?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

You think there's going to be a standard CMS?

No, but instead of there being 039248209348, perhaps there will be a half dozen or so that dominate?

[yugyug]

I've always found Golive much easier to use than Dreamweaver.... but I'm a pretty basic user. Actually I agree with besson , they both feel like clunky and outdated programs to me, a big reason why I never really got into web design other than flash (which now turns my stomach).

Adobe keeps going on about indesign as the starting pointing for a CSS driven website......anyway got a perspective on this?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by yugyug 

I've always found Golive much easier to use than Dreamweaver.... but I'm a pretty basic user. Actually I agree with besson , they both feel like clunky and outdated programs to me, a big reason why I never really got into web design other than flash (which now turns my stomach).

Adobe keeps going on about indesign as the starting pointing for a CSS driven website......anyway got a perspective on this?

My perspective is that I'm pretty much concluded that the whole idea of providing WYSIWYG editing capabilities is a flawed concept, if you are interested in producing clean and efficient code. Assuming InDesign attempts to be a WYSIWYG, I would also assume that my generalization applies.

[Aron Peterson]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

My perspective is that I'm pretty much concluded that the whole idea of providing WYSIWYG editing capabilities is a flawed concept, if you are interested in producing clean and efficient code. Assuming InDesign attempts to be a WYSIWYG, I would also assume that my generalization applies.

God, when will you stop your rant against commercial software. It's making you look like such an ass, Bess. Dreamweaver isn't one of those WYSIWYG editors that produces messy code.

I see things going this way:

Static content:

- template tools such as Rapidweaver, iWeb, Web 2.0 apps

Dynamic content:

- CMS driven, possible standardization on tools in this arena
- hand-coded templates
- custom programming

That's all Dreamweaver.

And I'll leave it at that because otherwise

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Aron Peterson 

God, when will you stop your rant against commercial software. It's making you look like such an ass, Bess. Dreamweaver isn't one of those WYSIWYG editors that produces messy code.



That's all Dreamweaver.

And I'll leave it at that because otherwise

What rant against commercial software? I use some myself... my comment was about InDesign, based on assumptions I thought I made clear.

If you want to use Dreamweaver as a text editor, fine... I don't have experience using it accordingly, but whatever works for you. Don't understand why you quoted my list, I must not be understanding something...

A little knee-jerky?

[mac128k-1984]

I'm not a heavy user by any stretch of the imagination, but I have used GoLive and now Dw since its part of CS3.

I am very impressed with DW, its ability to handle, incorporate and use CSS. GoLive's use of CSS is suspect at best, at least the CS version is.

There are other quirks that kind of drove me batty with GoLive, its file handling, its interface, the ftp syncing seemed slower then it should be.

So far I've been very pleased with DW

[j03]

I would use neither, go with PHP Designer 2007 -- great programming for web development.

Works wiht php, html/css, javascript, etc. ** Recommended.