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Hi I might be getting DreamWeaver and I was wondering about the good and bad points about it.

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If you havn't done so already...

I suggest do not use DreamWeaver. It will make you a sloppy coder and you won't learn a thing + all websites you make will be of a same quality. Try learning html the right way, it is by far the best option .

I do know how to use html but thanks for your opinion.

I like it, I don't use the visual part of it, only the code, but when I've coded, I look at the visual to check it, then I go back to the code part to fix. So, I'm happy with it, works and it makes everything faster, (so that I don't need to use a seperate FTP client).

HTML is very easy to learn, just like css and xhtml etc....
The best way to learn is by looking and trying. I used to think to myself "Why code html myself when dreamweaver can make one much quicker!
So I do advise you to try it yourself

And to help use Notepad ++ it helps loads.
Notepad++'s website

dremaweaver would basically code your website for you, which means you dont have to code it (and in some people's eyes this would be a good point), but the bad point of it is it uses very messy coding, which is prone to not displaying correctly and can become very annoying.

A much better way would be to learn html, i learnt it within a few hours and soon had my website built. Plus, if you learn html the 'proper' way then you will soon become very skilled, whereas with dreamweaver progress is slow. I highly recommend W3Schools for a very good html tutorial. It's also got a good css one as well

EDIT: fixed link, thankles Felu!

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Originally posted by methos
dremaweaver would basically code your website for you, which means you dont have to code it (and in some people's eyes this would be a good point), but the bad point of it is it uses very messy coding, which is prone to not displaying correctly and can become very annoying.

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Actually DW isn't that messy.. FP is.

Nahh dreamweaver inserts a lot of useless code.
Heres some that i can think of the top of my head:
<table border="0"> this doesnt need the "Border="0"
And theres some more but i can't think of the top of my head

does it actually matter? maybe it was put there to teach people another variable?

i use flash, dreamweaver and frontpage as its nice and easy and can quickly preview stuff make drag and drop stuff for a simple site, and use code editor for more advanced stuff, tidying up and tweaking


My one big downside about dreamweaver is keyboard shortcuts, they are not standard and so really fuck things up sometimes hopefully adobe will sort things out in CS3/Studio 9