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Subject: [COGEN-L] HTML Editor Poll
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:44:13 EST


Well I've used most of them except Homesite. I am a Macromedia Dreamweaver
fan.
Here is my take after playing around with different kinds.
I have Front Page 98 and finally tore down my sites that were designed in it
and redid them or hard coded them. (Pitkin County for example) Front Page
insists on installing a "server" on your hard drive and eating up gobs of
space. Plus it doesn't just install itself in one folder - it is insidious
and puts folders everywhere. It is hard to FTP and impossible to find a
picture or button file because it hides everything. However it does have
cute "themes" which means you will see your "theme" on thousands of other
sites. It has an uncanny ability to not be able to find port 80. I started
out loving it and learned to despise it.
Hardcoding - well I do it in notepad if I want to torture myself.
MS Word - you can create a document in Word and save it as html but it can
add 1000s of lines of extra code - doesn't that sound just like Microsoft to
bloat anything they get near?
GoLive - I begged and pleaded for GoLive for Xmas. I thought it was hard to
learn and got impatient. And I love Adobe products - Photoshop, Illustrator
and Streamline.

Dreamweaver - absolutely the most user-friendly and quick to learn. But very
powerful. It can do all the fancy layers, javascripts, site management,
cascading style sheets etc and works great with Flash. I don't bother with
the really fancy features much. But I do use the following really nice
features:
1. Tables - you can change the font to "arial" or whatever at one time. I
use this feature the most. I used to spend hours changing the font in each
table cell.
2. One click and you can view your code and fix something by hand.
3. One click and you can view your site in different browsers.
4. "Clean UP HTML" code. You can tell it to clean up all the extra junk
quickly. Such as look for all the "strong" tags and change them to "bold"
tags.
5. Point and click - for setting links and anchors.
I am happy with Dreamweaver 3 although there is a Dreamweaver 4 out now.
It costs a couple of hundred dollars, although I bought mine on Ebay for
about $60. I didn't ask any questions. <grin>
My two cents worth.
Vikki Gray



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