By "expensive" I mean that I would use it mainly when I wanted to move
files and folders around without having to chase down every affected
link.
Dreamweaver's validation feature is beyond annoying, and I can't get
its "includes" feature to work to save myself. The tag completion is
nice, but I already know how to apply tags in BBEdit.
Therefore, I'd be paying a couple hundred bucks to buy a piece of
software just in case I need to move a folder of files in some future
project.
I think instead that I'll put in a feature request to Bare Bones to
have them add similar functionality to BBEdit.
Thanks for your feedback, though.
On Dec 6, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Datatude wrote:
On 2007-12-03 12:10 PM, Greg V. Raven wrote:
Since upgrading to Leopard, Adobe GoLive 6 crashes much more
frequently than it did. I do all of my website development in
BBEdit, but when I get a new customer with an existing site, I
almost always have to bring order from chaos, and GoLive does some
of these site-management tasks better than BBEdit.
So it's time to update my site management software. GoLive seems to
be deprecated in favor of Dreamweaver, but either is expensive. I'm
guessing the benefits of Dreamweaver are its integration with
BBEdit and its goal of using web standards.
How does everyone else handle massive changes to static websites
that aren't built with BBEdit include statements, as any good site
should be?
I'm already using various other tools such as Linklint to keep atop
my BBEdit-based sites, but I've yet to come across a way of -- for
example -- promoting or demoting a folder within an HTML hierarchy
without having to change all the in and out links manually, unless
I'm using GoLive.
I look forward to your suggestions.
I use Dreamweaver (with BBEdit, of course!, as my preferred
integrated text editor). Beyond the benefits of Dreamweaver that you
cite, it also will update links if you move files/folders around in
the site hierarchy. Further, for projects on which you are not the
only web developer, you can with a single click set up a check-out/
in system so that a page being edited by one developer will not
simultaneously be checked out by another.
As for the cost, $399 for a new license does not seem "expensive" to
my mind, considering that this is a tool you use to make money? Even
if only for personal use, how much is your time worth and how much
time might DW save you with its page authoring, php/css/javascript
etc integration, and site management features? Perhaps they even
offer an upgrade path between GoLive and DW (I don't see that
upgrade path on their site, but they are offering very fair upgrade
policy for purchasers of earlier version of Macromedia products,
including the very aged Studio MX that I bought all the way back in,
um, 2002? -- so you might wish to phone them and ask a live
salesperson whether you can cross-upgrade your GoLive license to DW)
good luck!
kazar
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