Erez Efrati wrote:
I have a JBoss/Tomcat/Struts project in which till now I have written all the pages manually with a simple editor. I have recently downloaded Dreamweaver by Macromedia and started playing with it to see what it is capable of doing. Being far from expert in HTML page design my questions are:
1. Is it really necessary to work with such a product?
If you're soliciting opinions, mine is that it is definitely not necessary. Some traditional artists like DW as a sort of web page IDE, and it integrates nicely with Flash and Fireworks*, but I hate the code generated by these kinds of products (WYSIWYGs) -- nearly all table-based layouts, and excessive use of images for navigation elements which are more easily controlled (programmatically) with text. Plus, the JavaScript code for the image rollovers are hideous.
Then again I am sort of a web standards bigot when it comes to design (which is why I don't design much, I suppose).
I just use a text editor for writing the HTML/CSS/JSP markup that is not generated from other sources (DBs, XML, etc). On Windows I use <http://jedit.org/>, which is pretty phenomenal (and free/open source), and on MacOSX I use BBEdit.
Erik
(* I do like Fireworks for producing graphics, but I don't let it generate any code for me.)
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