Friday, October 28, 2005
i posted earleir today but blogger aid it couldnt find my blog or something stupid. so that pisses me off. the post wasnt long but i don't care. i will recap the contents of said post:
turns out my masculine role model growing up is gay. (note: this is a joke). go sulu. in related news sheryll swoopes of WNBA 'fame' has aslso come out o' the closet.
in news that is related if and only if you have hung out with us over the past three years or so. carlos: thanks for the kind words about my site. as for your comments. my frames are named. it really bothered me that the page was untitled. i had too much other stuff to do to figure it out. though i thought about it today an i probably just have to name the page in the layout view rahter than the frame edit view, but i haven't tried it yet. also i used go live because i 'own' it but not dreamweaver. once you figure it out it is pretty sweet. do you think dreamweaver is better or just that it is easier to learn? the reach the world program i am workign with is willing to pay for me to a take a seminar offered by TC. i am deciding between learnign more about go live or learnign how to use dreamweaver. is there any clear advantage of dreamweaver over go live?
turns out my masculine role model growing up is gay. (note: this is a joke). go sulu. in related news sheryll swoopes of WNBA 'fame' has aslso come out o' the closet.
in news that is related if and only if you have hung out with us over the past three years or so. carlos: thanks for the kind words about my site. as for your comments. my frames are named. it really bothered me that the page was untitled. i had too much other stuff to do to figure it out. though i thought about it today an i probably just have to name the page in the layout view rahter than the frame edit view, but i haven't tried it yet. also i used go live because i 'own' it but not dreamweaver. once you figure it out it is pretty sweet. do you think dreamweaver is better or just that it is easier to learn? the reach the world program i am workign with is willing to pay for me to a take a seminar offered by TC. i am deciding between learnign more about go live or learnign how to use dreamweaver. is there any clear advantage of dreamweaver over go live?
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Well, I cannot give you a great answer because I have never used GoLive. The industry standard is Dreamweaver and that is why I use it. Well, the real reason I use it is because I learned it at a time when there really wasn't any other alternative. Bobby had a Dreamweaver 3 book, and at the time, Dreamweaver was the only good WYSIWYG.
Although I can't compare the two products, I can tell you what I like about Dreamweaver (now using version 8) and maybe that will help you.
On the first run, Dreamweaver allows you to choose between 2 GUI types: Coder and Designer. Depending on the type of GUI you choose, Dreamweaver will make certain things more visible than others. And this can always be changed in the configuration menu.
Dreamweaver has a very straight-forward GUI. The menus are broken up into very logical groups and finding a specific function is cake. Dreamweaver displays common HTML elements as controls you can click on which insert code into your document. Dreamweaver has a wizard for everything making coding for the novice a breeze.
By default, Dreamweaver makes semantically correct documents. I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but imagine if the program could just do it for you and you didn't have to think about it. It just happens. Well, Dreamweaver does just that. It writes code which make your page more accessable without having to think about it (no more font tags or other garbage tags. instead dreamweaver uses css!).
Dreamweaver has a ton of templates to choose from: Frames, no frames, all CSS, accessable, text-only, and several others.
More importantly, Dreamweaver has a great HTML rendering engine. It is fast, light, and intelligent.
But maybe the most important reason why I would choose Dreamweaver over GoLive is that I am not sure how much longer GoLive will be around. I blogged about this a while ago, but Adobe recently acquired Macromedia. Macromedia is the company responsible for Dreamweaver. Adobe tried very hard to make GoLive as popular as Dreamweaver, but Dreamweaver had already made a name for itself in the industry. So who knows what Adobe will do with these two products. I think that they will phase out software that doesn't make big bucks. For example, Macromedia has a program called Freehand, which I think will be phased out since Adobe has Illustrator--an industry-wide program.
For me, the choice was almost inevitable, but I can't imagine working with HTML in any other program.
p.s. Just name the parent frame and that will set the title for the page. See, the browser will only render the title of the root-level frame and disregard the names for the children frames.
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Although I can't compare the two products, I can tell you what I like about Dreamweaver (now using version 8) and maybe that will help you.
On the first run, Dreamweaver allows you to choose between 2 GUI types: Coder and Designer. Depending on the type of GUI you choose, Dreamweaver will make certain things more visible than others. And this can always be changed in the configuration menu.
Dreamweaver has a very straight-forward GUI. The menus are broken up into very logical groups and finding a specific function is cake. Dreamweaver displays common HTML elements as controls you can click on which insert code into your document. Dreamweaver has a wizard for everything making coding for the novice a breeze.
By default, Dreamweaver makes semantically correct documents. I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but imagine if the program could just do it for you and you didn't have to think about it. It just happens. Well, Dreamweaver does just that. It writes code which make your page more accessable without having to think about it (no more font tags or other garbage tags. instead dreamweaver uses css!).
Dreamweaver has a ton of templates to choose from: Frames, no frames, all CSS, accessable, text-only, and several others.
More importantly, Dreamweaver has a great HTML rendering engine. It is fast, light, and intelligent.
But maybe the most important reason why I would choose Dreamweaver over GoLive is that I am not sure how much longer GoLive will be around. I blogged about this a while ago, but Adobe recently acquired Macromedia. Macromedia is the company responsible for Dreamweaver. Adobe tried very hard to make GoLive as popular as Dreamweaver, but Dreamweaver had already made a name for itself in the industry. So who knows what Adobe will do with these two products. I think that they will phase out software that doesn't make big bucks. For example, Macromedia has a program called Freehand, which I think will be phased out since Adobe has Illustrator--an industry-wide program.
For me, the choice was almost inevitable, but I can't imagine working with HTML in any other program.
p.s. Just name the parent frame and that will set the title for the page. See, the browser will only render the title of the root-level frame and disregard the names for the children frames.
