Howdy
I'm new to the list but have been lurking for a while. Some great
stuff here. I posted this semi-review of Dreamweaver to the Apple web
dev list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and here it is...
Incidentally, is there some sort of 'real' designer certificate I can
get?! ;)
I've been test-driving the new version of Dreamweaver - I'd pretty
much sworn off it and have been using BBEdit almost exclusively for
the last year or so. This have been great for developing my own
skills - nothing like a plain text editor to really teach you what is
going on - especially as BBEdit is such a great tool.
Having said all that, I must say that Dreamweaver 8 has been quite a
surprise. The rendering of CSS layouts is considerably improved - it
just has a few minor quirks but most of my layouts aren't complex.
The interface for editing CSS is less cumbersome and I find many of
the new coding tools very handy (being able to hide a block of code
is more useful than I initially thought). I must admit that I am
still developing the templates in BBEdit then bringing them into DW
to build the site and work on the content. More complex pages I still
tend to edit in BBEdit.
The speed is better - my archaic 450MHz G4 (count those hertz!) has
no problems - it used to choke and crash with MX 2004. There are
several interface improvements too, I especially like the tabbed
window feature and the modal FTP window. Initially I thought it was
suffering from feature bloat but it has been the opposite. I think
that it has matured as a fine piece of software.
Ideally, I think it would be great to edit the content directly into
BBEdit preview window and assign classes and ids via a contextual
menu. If I could I probably wouldn't use DW as much - probably just
for the FTP syncing and template features.
Fireworks on the other hand is almost identical to MX '04, though the
speed improvements is nice on older machines - it used to take ages
to load. I much prefer it to Photoshop for web graphics (but use PS
for bitmaps). I hope FW survives... ImageReady is too Photoshoppy for
me. FW looks to be tied in more with Flash, so maybe SWF developers
would appreciate v.8 more than I.
and no... I don't work for Macromedia... or is that Adobe?! ... or
anyone; I'm self-employed!
Just a couple of pennies... 8-)
Duncan
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Sprocket Web Design
www.sprocket.co.nz
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On 26/09/2005, at 3:27 AM, kvnmcwebn wrote:
Hello list,
I picked up last months edition of computer arts,
theres an article about creating liquid css layouts.
dissapointing really, didnt got into detail.
Also there was a review of Dreamweaver 8.
CSS tools beefed up with a new css previewer. Looks good
anybody used it yet?
-kvnmcwebn
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