I need a fast and efficient platform to design beautiful dynamic websites, just between joomla! and dreamweaver, which is better? Sane suggestions please,

Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) software while joomla is an open source content management program, If you are new in web development, and not ready to hard code a dynamic website, i would advise you to use joomla, which would help you in you php, database management, and even give you access to already created samples, plus it is free, But if you are experienced, and want the fun of hard coding the whole site yourself, dreamweaver or even the basic notepad++ would be ideal for you

@Alaribe, tnx 4 that piece, but whilst using joomla, i'd need to install a local server(wamp), am getting chocked there,

alaribe22:

Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) software while joomla is an open source content management program, If you are new in web development, and not ready to hard code a dynamic website, i would advise you to use joomla, which would help you in you php, database management, and even give you access to already created samples, plus it is free, But if you are experienced, and want the fun of hard coding the whole site yourself, dreamweaver or even the basic notepad++ would be ideal for you

^^ this pretty much answers the question, other "software" you can look at that could do the job (also are popular these days) are Wordpress(http://wordpress.org/) and Drupal (http://drupal.org/).

.wisepluto:

@Alaribe, tnx 4 that piece, but whilst using joomla, i'd need to install a local server(wamp), am getting chocked there,

what os are you using? If you r using windows, what version? The general method for windows is this: First, install iis, this is the default server for windows, , then install firefox. Installing iis makes the computer open its localhost port, after this, you can uninstall the iis and install wamp, dont forget to select firefox as your default wamp browser, And note that even after uninstalling iis, the inetpub folder in the c directory remains, Please ask questions if you need more help.

alaribe22:

what os are you using? If you r using windows, what version? The general method for windows is this: First, install iis, this is the default server for windows, , then install firefox. Installing iis makes the computer open its localhost port, after this, you can uninstall the iis and install wamp, dont forget to select firefox as your default wamp browser, And note that even after uninstalling iis, the inetpub folder in the c directory remains, Please ask questions if you need more help.

just to correct you, there is no need to install iis to access port 80. Just install wamp and open your firewall settings. Open exceptions and allow the wamp service to send and receive traffic on port 80. That's all

kodewrita:

just to correct you, there is no need to install iis to access port 80. Just install wamp and open your firewall settings. Open exceptions and allow the wamp service to send and receive traffic on port 80. That's all

kodewrita:

just to correct you, there is no need to install iis to access port 80. Just install wamp and open your firewall settings. Open exceptions and allow the wamp service to send and receive traffic on port 80. That's all

tried dt on vista, bt it didnt work,

Been using it for close to 3 years now, trust me it works. The worst is that user account control keeps piping up every time I launch wamp otherwise no issues.

@kodewrita pls am havin a broken links on ds joomla sites www.websoluteng.com wat can u suggest pls

We have Wampserver 2.0, 4.0 and 5.0. Does with win vista. All u need is install wamp in ur computer. Double click ur C: drive. Search 4 folder www . Double click d folder. Then create a sub folder mywebsite. Search 4 index file and locate it to mywebsite. Then launch ur dreamweaver and make ur newsite with the C:\ localhost\mywebsite\. Tips 4 developer.

Always code with Adobe Dreamweaver cs6 cos it aids better and faster connectivity to mysql database..

If you want to design an effective website then you should use adobe dreamweaver which is the best designing tool which I have ever seen before, it includes lots of advanced tools and features to design valuable website layout.