If NOT Dreamweaver... then WHAT???

[tamara6]

Of course, BBEdit has the incredibly useful feature of multi-file search. If you keep a copy of your site on your own computer, or if your site is on a Mac server, you can use this feature to change items across all of your pages. In fact, I've used this feature in conjuntion with Dreamweaver (which used to come with BBEdit).

I have Dreamweaver, and I use it sometimes, mostly for CSS stuff. I have BBEdit, and I use it sometimes. I find Taco really useful when doing PHP. I've used HyperEdit, too - I like its live preview. I used to use PageSpinner a lot before the move to OS X. Recently I've started using Smultron, just a bare bones editor that launches much faster than BBEdit, and has a nifty sidebar that makes switching documents easier. None of these is really the perfect html editor for me, which is why I have them all. I use the tool I think will work best for the job at hand.

 

[Thirteenva]

Despite wanting to agree with you about the fastest way to get a tasty steak meal, I would also point out that going out to hunt for your food and killing it with your own hands is the only way to make sure someone isn't selling you horse meat.

In a horse meat scenario, all Dreamweaver will help you do is produce 700 pages of horse meat much quicker.

So YES, if someone can bothered to learn HTML and CSS by hand, the DO deserve a medal, and with it they get to understand exactly why WYSIWYG coding is rarely a time saver. The WYSIWYG isn't the clever thing about Dreamweaver, like Thirteenva, I think it's large project abilities are what gives it wings.

Just wrong. You have to do it the way Dreamweaver wants it or you have to re edit it. Keep your opinion though, I suppose (I know) people have completely different ideas about good design and good accessibility.

Let me start by saying you saw my post but did not READ it.

I never stated I use the wysiwyg editor in dreamweaver nor did i condone wysiwyg as a good way to work. I DID however say that dreamweaver has way way more powerful tools than any text editor, i even listed them in my first post. THe accuracy with which you read comprehended my post tells me two things. You don't really understand a) the tool in question b) anything about true production and the necessity of powerful time saving features because.. c) you don't work in a busy production environment.

I can assure you that your horse meat remark is misplaced here. Since you obviously don't understand what its like not to create anything worthwhile you can't possibly understand the need to create something that is both quality and easily deployed and implemented on a large scale. I think our 3000 page web application would have been a great deal more time consuming without the time saving features of my the tools in my work environment. Yet it still remains, attractive, accessible (a major requirement when dealing with school districts), css and xhtml compliant, as well as scalable.

Please contact me when you have a real knowledge of what its like to be a 'professional' and we can talk then about what tools are best. Till then kill your meat by hand. I'm good enough at what I do to know that I don't need to do everything by hand for it to be done right and efficiently.

I'm not sure why you feel you need to do things 'dreamweavers' way. Never had that issue, of course i don't use the wysiwyg portion so I have control over everything as well as benefitting from time saving features such as those i listed in my first post which you ignored.

Your as ignorant as the first poster and it shows.

 

[decksnap]

I feel you Thirteenva- I tried to explain it also. I guess Kettle hasn't used the program much. There are a million uses for dreamweaver, not just as a text editor, which it is, by the way. I don't understand his point about having to code the way Dreamweaver wants you to code. You can completely freehand all your code in Dreamweaver if you want.

Oh well - some people just like to make themselves feel good.