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I am always wondering why people like using dreamweaver for webdesign. Pls is it the only webdesigner

people dont use dreamweaver again. We have moved on beyond dreamweaver.

CreativeWeb:
people dont use dreamweaver again. We have moved on beyond dreamweaver.

which one are they using now

piicity:
which one are they using now

We now use notepad++

WordPress lol

and please it is not a protocol abeg...

CreativeWeb:
We now use notepad++

me uses plain notepad only. That is what i learnt with and is my best friend....

CreativeWeb:
We now use notepad++

Please Oga, is there anything that notepad++ can do that Dreamweaver cant?

onyengbu:
Please Oga, is there anything that notepad++ can do that Dreamweaver cant?

Well, except you want to use it as a text editor. But dw was not actually built to serve as a text editor. It was built for graphics designers that use adobe graphics software so that they can use their graphics skill to become an automatic web designers by doing drag and drop in dw. This is why you can design a nice template on photoshop and slice it and export as html and dw will convert it to a website using table. Wierd.

I prefer Sublime text (lots of downloadable plugins).... And notepad++. I use Dreamweaver ftp feature, preferred it to filezilla.

CreativeWeb:
Well, except you want to use it as a text editor. But dw was not actually built to serve as a text editor. It was built for graphics designers that use adobe graphics software so that they can use their graphics skill to become an automatic web designers by doing drag and drop in dw. This is why you can design a nice template on photoshop and slice it and export as html and dw will convert it to a website using table. Wierd.

If it was not designed to serve as text editor why does it have the code view? Why does it have code auto completion and syntax highlighting? The part about it being made for graphic designers will shock even the makers of the software.
The thing here is that people like saying that DW is for amateurs just to make themselves feel like pro (i dont mean you).
Dreamweaver have code and design view and which one you decide to switch to determines your level of competitiveness. I love DW so much because of code completion, syntax highlighting, search and replace, updating renamed files sitewide and other life saving features no one hardly mention when they talk down on DW. It is true that any serious coder have no business switching DW's design view or letting it create functions for you but those are not just what DW is all about. It is a much more advanced and useful tool.
DW is not dead like people like to say in public because most people still use it in the comfort of their computers just that there seem to be this stigma hanging over its shoulder that make people deny it in public.
That I am sure is connnected to the fact web design newbies also find unguided solace in making it a tool of choice.

Trust me sir, dw was built purely to serve as 'a web design graphic tool'. The major focus was actually the design view. Adobe added the code view because it wil be wierd to have it without a code view. Adobe specializes in graphics software. Raster graphics (photoshop), vector graphics (illustrator), magazine graphics (indesign), web graphics (dream weaver), video graphics (premiere), etc.

Dw is good, but web design community world wide rejected it because it was not built for them. Adobe built it for 'designers.'

CreativeWeb:
Trust me sir, dw was built purely to serve as 'a web design graphic tool'. The major focus was actually the design view. Adobe added the code view because it wil be wierd to have it without a code view. Adobe specializes in graphics software. Raster graphics (photoshop), vector graphics (illustrator), magazine graphics (indesign), web graphics (dream weaver), video graphics (premiere), etc.

Dw is good, but web design community world wide rejected it because it was not built for them. Adobe built it for 'designers.'

You're wrong sir, DW is more than just front end. I built my first news website (both front nd back end, create database tables and other mysql queries), 100% with DW before I even learnt about WordPress. You can build server side applications and websites with it along. The problem we have here is that we don't utilize this things to their full potentials. DW remains the best web designing software out there. I prefer Sublime text nd Notepad++ not because they're better, but for personal reasons nd that is lightness.

CreativeWeb:
Trust me sir, dw was built purely to serve as 'a web design graphic tool'. The major focus was actually the design view. Adobe added the code view because it wil be wierd to have it without a code view. Adobe specializes in graphics software. Raster graphics (photoshop), vector graphics (illustrator), magazine graphics (indesign), web graphics (dream weaver), video graphics (premiere), etc.

Dw is good, but web design community world wide rejected it because it was not built for them. Adobe built it for 'designers.'

Your logic does not really stand. How can you say it was not built for webdesign yet it does all the webdesign stuffs and even more. You cited notepad++ yet I can name things DW can do that notepad++ cant and yet I cant see those that notepad++ can do that DW cant.
Again, saying that web design community rejected DW is an assertion you cant prove.
If it was built for graphic designers, how come many newbies that use DW cant even open all the graphic design tools you mentioned. Its easier to say that it was built for newbies than saying its for graphic designers.
All in all, one of the things that matter most to me in my line of work is speed of coding and DW help to achieve that better than notepad++. No need to come here and claim I dont use DW because it might make me look like a newbie.

well, dw is good. But u can agree wit me that most web pros dont use it.

www.webdesigndev.com/dreamweaver/10-good-and-10-bad-things-about-adobes-dreamweaver

CreativeWeb:
well, dw is good. But u can agree wit me that most web pros dont use it.

www.webdesigndev.com/dreamweaver/10-good-and-10-bad-things-about-adobes-dreamweaver

Good is all I care about. Who uses it or not should not bother me. The moment it stops being good is when it starts bothering me.

piicity:
I am always wondering why people like using dreamweaver for webdesign. Pls is it the only webdesigner

its a webdesign tool which can be used for programming web app and design.you can also use front page

You know you can use notepad koh??

no

i used and still using crimson editor best bet


not nairabet or naijabet oooooo



BET

No, DW is not the only one available. I've effectively used notepad++ and Sublime text, I've also even designed full websites with graphic tools like PowerPoint and Adobe PhotoShop. However, when it comes to a tool that has all you need to design a good modest site, DW still carries the day. I'll advice serious minded designers and developers to buy and install Adobe master Collection CS5 and above.

Well see dreamweaver like an automatic car which makes your life easy in the sense that it has drag and drop buttons that doesnt require you to code

Ionno

ok

Did a website section mod become a supermod

No it is not. And BTW, protocol is the wrong word to use in the title context of this thread.

You guys are creating too much threads for websites, blogging, SQL and other IT stuff.

Please can you reduce the frequency?

interesting

yea crimson is better

Can you try site-spinner soft ware,easy for web site designers!!!

CreativeWeb:
Trust me sir, dw was built purely to serve as 'a web design graphic tool'. The major focus was actually the design view. Adobe added the code view because it wil be wierd to have it without a code view. Adobe specializes in graphics software. Raster graphics (photoshop), vector graphics (illustrator), magazine graphics (indesign), web graphics (dream weaver), video graphics (premiere), etc.

Dw is good, but web design community world wide rejected it because it was not built for them. Adobe built it for 'designers.'

You dont know what you are saying , i am a pure coder and i use DW .

Dreamwaver is the best! That's wat I'm using currently