> Having used both FrontPage and Dreamweaver in the past I have resorted
back to a text editor. Not that either was bad or good. Just found that I
had the best control when doing the writing myself.
Hi, James.
There's no question that hand-coding is the way to go. I'm with you 110% on
that score!
But, you know, the look and feel of a site is pretty important and an HTML
editor goes a long way toward managing that part. If you can find an editor
that helps you set up some style sheets that carry across all your pages
without you having to type in all the code for every page, you're golden. If
you can get some reports that check to be sure that you don't have any
dead-ends, man, you're saving you and your users from some serious
frustration. And, better yet, if you can see a bird's-eye view of your site
with some easy-to-check tree charts, you can check on the logical layout of
the site.
See, all our fancy-schmancy work with databases and power-code is for naught
if it's not easily accessible to the visitor and I think we all overlook
that to our peril. What was that British fashion site that recently folded
because they delayed launching because they wanted to "get it just right?"
Then, their site was so bloated and took so long to load that people just
surfed away... I think that a good HTML editor will display how long a page
will load using various modem speeds and allow me to choose whether I want
to spring that kind of burden on my visitors.
So, you've used both products and you know what I mean when I say that I can
apply a "theme" with FrontPage. Can you do likewise with Dreamweaver? If you
set up a site that specializes in fireworks, for instance, will a button
that you design once with a pretty exploding shell carry across all your
pages without having to insert or "include" it on all your pages? With
FrontPage, you just set up one "theme" and all the elements carry across
without having to manually include them. That's the kind of drudgery I'd
like to get away from so that all I have to do is open up the editor and
stick some PHP in there that interacts with MySQL.
Do you think I'm living in La-La Land?
Yours,
Murph
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