On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dreamweaver, like other GUI web development environments, lies to you > about how your page looks - visitors don't browse the web with > Dreamweaver. Also, you will eventually find yourself in a situation > where there's a problem in your site that you can't fix in the GUI > mode, > so you switch to code view ... at which point, you need to know CSS > and > HTML just as well as if you never used a GUI environment. So I'd say - > forget the GUI development environment and just work with a good code > development environment from the first!
Some people prefer that approach. However many others find it more efficient to be able to effortlessly switch between visual and code views. Of course, you need to preview your work in a variety of browsers, not just in your authoring tool. > If you really want to use a GUI tool for a mockup, use your preferred > presentation software package. They all let you set up links, so > you can > at least take clients through the flow of the site. The problem with this is that "presentation software packages" are not for graphics. If the clients like what they see in the presentation, you'll eventually have to go back and create the graphics - all over again. If you start by creating the graphics in Photoshop, you'll be much closer to having graphics you can use. By the way, I often use the "layer comps" feature in Photoshop to "take clients through the flow of the site" (as you would do by creating links in PowerPoint or whatever). > No, grab one of the layouts from Layout Gala. Or grab the layout > from a > site you like. That's a fine suggestion. Experimenting with different layouts is a good way to learn. Note, however, that the layouts provided with the current Dreamweaver frequently include useful comments explaining how and why things work the way they do. Not all layouts you grab off the Web offer that additional learning experience. Now that the original poster has been presented with some differences of opinion, he can explore them and see which fit his own preferred working style. To each, their own. ...pt -- Business/Communications start at http://www.PhilipTobias.com. Grow your business using my technical and marketing communications - Effective writing, graphic design, multimedia, photos, and Web sites. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
