Comments on: Web Design, Part Deux: Dreamweaver, Arachnophilia and Coffee Cup

By: jay

jay — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:45 +0000

yep it works fine….more features than I will ever use…

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:32:55 +0000

I usually use Nvu for coding, and Front Page if I’m certain that the users will be mostly using IE.

By: HarriMac

HarriMac — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:49:03 +0000

i wasn’t a big fan of front page. they had a different program, that you could only find by going to the accessories menu or something. it was a four letter acronym that escapes me (and google isn’t helping).

my book didn’t come with dreamweaver. i am not even sure if anything in that suite comes with a comprehensive guide - you’d have to buy it. i got one on amazon about 2 years ago that has been a life saver in some instances and taught me a lot.

i won’t say precisely how i got my copy of MX 2004 but it was about as non-legal as the copy you have! does your copy work fully??

By: jay

jay — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:18:29 +0000

Thanks HarriMac
Of course, now I remember properly…frontPAGE, not frontLINE…ooops
I didn’t get a book with my errrm copy of Macromedia Studio, but then I only paid $5 for it - I said it wasn’t entirely legit… :oops:I did buy it off ebay, but the seller has now mysteriously been removed…!

By: HarriMac

HarriMac — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:22:54 +0000

There used to be another program besides Frontline that MS had that was pretty amazing for web design and easy to use - cannot remember the name for the life of me. It was built into the OS - I think the last version with it was 98 SE.

I use a widescreen to do everything so I manuever the different stuff in dreamweaver around to make it work best for me. Same with photoshop. Sometimes I revert to either just code or just design if I really just want to have more space to use either. I do like the graphical buttons of dreamweaver that can help you find something. I’ve taught a few web newbie’s how to design in the design view of Dreamweaver and it’s easy enough to understand in that manner. I have one of the books for MX 2004 and it helped me find a lot of things really quickly and even turned me on to some functions I’d never even heard of before.

Free wise the market is flooded these days - everybody wants a piece. I like arachnophilia but of course I read (and speak and breathe) in code. Coffee cup is pretty decent. There are quite a few more with high ratings at download.com so you might want to check that out for your article.

By: jay

jay — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:18:37 +0000

I use Dreamweaver, I got a cheap copy on ebay, but I don’t think it was entirely legit..!! I am interested in coffee cup as I am looking to write an article about how to get ‘on the web’ for free, and that sounds like a good option. I find the 3-view Dreamweaver window a bit crowded, but you can revert to the old-style single-view if you prefer.
I used MS Frontline before and it is not even is the same league as DreamWeaver…

By: HarriMac

HarriMac — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:02:01 +0000

I’ve never tried those 2 editors. Though I reviewed CoffeeCup it was a bit basic and the older versions were more confusing than the newest editor I reviewed.

How do you like the editor you use now??

By: Linky Love

Linky Love — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:15:32 +0000

I started with Netobjectsfusion. Dreamweaver was way too difficult for me and CoffeeCup just didn’t do what I wanted to do.

Now I am using Namo Webeditor