Thanks James. "*not being able to drag and drop table and column names though has forced me to become more familiar with the data I work with, and as a result, I think, a better coder overall. Less reliance on Design View as well helped push me in that direction."
*Well, that explains why I became so dependent on this design view. I guess its the right time for me to switch to coding in Aptana/Eclipse so my love for this Design view goes away and it makes me Editor free, so I can pretty much code in any editor. I agree DW is bloated. I will give you an idea why I get stuck with design view. We have an application and we include several pages. Now sometimes, when a new enhancement request comes up for a screen/page at a particular location on the page and if it includes lets say 5 cfm pages, I just open the main page and select the area which needs enhancement. And DW would say in code, that its an included page and then I go to that page and do the enhancement. It has worked really well for me in the last 3 years. This way, I dont have to search for that particular area/context. Even if I had to do text search, DW is nice to let me search through the whole site. I dont know if you can do this in Eclipse(not that I know of) or Aptana i.e. search for something in the whole site. Thanks again, Ajas Mohammed. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:14 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *No, Aptana does not have a design-time WYSIWYG view - frankly, I find > the Design View rather worthless with CF projects, especially when dealing > with dynamic data. Using a tool like Firebug or any of the many Firefox web > development plugins tends (for me) to yield better results in terms of > working with display code and fine-tuning it. The rendering engine DW uses > for it's WYSIWYG view is also inconsistent with how the modern browsers > display.* > ** > *I forgot to mention that Aptana uses CF Eclipse as a plug in to enable CF > code formatting and function reference. I don't want to mislead anyone into > thinking Aptana is a native CF IDE.* > ** > *For what it's worth, I've always been a die-hard Adobe/Dreamweaver fan, > but CS3's bloat really started hampering my development at work, and the Mac > version's even worse at home - Aptana offers a cross-platform, consistent > experience for me, that is much faster and responsive when working - my only > lament is the lack of database integration that I liked from Dreamweaver - > not being able to drag and drop table and column names though has forced me > to become more familiar with the data I work with, and as a result, I think, > a better coder overall. Less reliance on Design View as well helped push me > in that direction.* > > > *James E. Thomas* > Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Ajas Mohammed > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:06 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [houcfug] Re: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - 3-4 user license > > Thanks, I will check Aptana. I remember I had that plugin installed in > Eclipse for CSS/JavaScript. > > I will check on this myself, but do you happen to know if Aptana has design > view like DW? Honestly, thats the only reason, we are stuck with DW. I > started using Eclipse long time back and I just love it. It just that > sometimes, design view can be of so much help. > > Thanks. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> *I would recommend looking at other IDEs such as Aptana (www.aptana.com) >> that work quite well with all flavors of CF (even BlueDragon), and comes in >> both a free and a commercial version. Adobe's Dreamweaver has (in my >> opinion) become bloated, and too resource-intensive. Unless the upcoming CS4 >> edition addresses some of these issues, then I'm sticking to open-source and >> alternative software for CF development.* >> >> >> *James E. Thomas* >> Baker Botts L.L.P. Web Developer >> >> -----Original Message----- >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >> Behalf Of *Ajas Mohammed >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:23 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [houcfug] Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - 3-4 user license >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Our team decided that we need to have DW for development, so my question >> is, is there a discount code(for the user group) I can use to buy DW CS3 >> from Adobe??? What is the best way to buy 3-4 user license for DW CS3. >> >> Adobe site says Buy US$399 <http://www.adobe.com/go/buydreamweaver> for >> DW CS3. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> <Ajas Mohammed /> >> http://ajashadi.blogspot.com >> We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. >> No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. >> You can't improve what you don't measure. >> Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, >> sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents >> the wise choice of many alternatives. >> >> > > > -- > <Ajas Mohammed /> > http://ajashadi.blogspot.com > We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. > No matter what, find a way. 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