hmm. a non wp related question…
1 from me too.
I need a feature comparision table between DW and FP for a college assignment.
Anyone any idea where I can get 1?
WTF the college professers think we are? Idiots?
DreamWeaver: Rocks
FrontPage: Sucks
Think he’ll accept that?
Personally, I tend to use text editors for most of my HTML work. HTML-Kit is pretty nice.
FrontPage is way too proprietary. Plus, the third-party development of extensions for Dreamweaver is head and shoulders about FrontPage. I went from FP to DW. The whole community is way better than FP, and a LOT of free stuff is available for you to add value to DW.
Maybe FP2003 is different. Maybe I can hold my breath for eight hours, too. 🙂
Not really. FP2003 is more of the same with more obfuscated code and terrible templates. 🙂
Anybody have comments about Zend?
BTW, I’ve got nothing but horror stories with customers who started out in FP. I’m still handcoding my HTML.
I tried the Zend Studio because i was interested in the php debugging as well. I don’t know if i just didnt configure my setup right (old powerbook g3 running mac os X) or what but I couldn’t get it to work. I do know you can try it for free and if you like it, then you can buy it.
Also, please don’t take this wrong- but I think Frontpage is a bad way to go because of its proprietary nature. You would get cleaner code from Dreamweaver. I switched to Dreamweaver after having started with GoLive 5 and am at the point now where i only use it for it’s FTP capabilities. I kind of code by hand now and double check everything with the W3C validator. Taco HTML is supposed to be pretty good…
Just to further this non-WP thread: The plain-ol’ text editing capabilities of DW rock! Since the MX version, they’ve integrated most of the old CF Studio/HomeSite functionality. It’s got good tag auto-completion (type a tag, for example, and it generates the closing tag automatically), code hints (start typing a tag, and…if turned on in preferences, it will pop up a list of available attributes for that tag…select an attribute, and it’ll insert it with an expty set of quotes), tag coloring, etc. Since I always select “Make file XHTML compliant” when creating a new page, it’ll even add the closing “/” on image tags, etc. Add to that the built-in validation, built-in O’Reilly tag documentation, excellent site management, and a host of other great features. If you’ve ever created (or integrated) web services, the introspection feature is great, also…
I do all of my hand-coding in DW, and use it’s built-in secure FTP and site mgmt. So, for example, if I change the name of a file/directory/or image, DW will update *all* the links anywhere in my site that were pointing to the old location/name. If I, for example, decide I want to categorize all the images in my /images folder into sub folders: /images/headers, /images/icons, /images/photos, etc., when I drag the images into the newly created folders, DW updates my links for me. Totally rocks.
Oh yeah, and DW has integrated the Lift accessibility suite (whereas it’s an add-on for FP), and DW won’t TOUCH code you’ve created in other apps (unlike FP, which will rewrite the living daylights out of the code until it’s a complete mess), unless you tell it to (using the “Clean up HTML”, “Clean up Word HTML”, or the optional “Clean up FrontPage HTML” menu items.)
I could go on for days…
perhaps i should stay quiet. or else matt will declare me a troll… :S
thansk people anywayz. i got more than i bargained for! 😀
