| Jeremiad |
03-18-2004 08:26 PM |
Myself? Pico.
But I understand that some people don't have an in-depth knowledge of html enough to understand it in a text-editor, even such as notepad (my first editor!).
I used Front Page for a few years, and cursed at it constantly for adding extra tags (hint for those that still use it, paste your code in the html tab, and that won't happen quite so badly), but Dreamweaver is a far cry from that bullshit. Still, using Dreamweaver in the visual mode still causes a lot of automatic crap, that tries to determine your intentions for you. I use Dreamweaver in the "programmer/development" mode, and never use the visual tab.
Dreamweaver has distinct advantages for a few reasons:
1. It doesn't fuck with php! It might not know what it's trying to do, but it leaves it the fuck alone. Not like FrontPage, which tries to "correct" the php.
2. The color separation of tags in the coding tab in Dreamweaver lets you see pretty quickly and easily where you have made an error.
3. The Find and Replace functions in Dreamweaver absolutely blow FrontPage out of the water. Back in the day before I started using SSI, Dreamweaver's F&R easily made it worth the price when doing daily updates.
My FrontPage 2000 CD currently resides under my stove's left leg, to shim up the slant in the floor. I guess it still comes in handy, somehow.
Jere.
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