Friday, December 5, 2008

What are The benefits of Working with Dreamweaver?

By Dirk den Besten

The advantages of using Adobe Dreamweaver over plain html programming are enormous. Dreamweaver creates a lot of the ready-to-use code for the coder, which makes it extremely practical for those who are just starting out with Dreamweaver and/or programming.

You have several standard views to work with. You can toggle between code view and the design view or you can combine both in a single page view. If you use both views in the same window you can track any of the changes you made immediately. Dreamweaver also has the option instantly view your webpage in Firefox and Internet Explorer and you don't have to be online for this.

When you are designing your page and you are editing the code, Dreamweaver has many tools that can help you with the editing and this is really where Dreamweaver stands out with other editors.

Another great tool in Adobe Dreamweaver is the layout instrument tool. Dreamweaver will give an idea where you can place your navigation, your menus, your images, etc. Dreamweaver really helps you to get the most out of the internet.

The vast majority of professional Web Developers wouldn't dream of using Dreamweaver Dreamweaver's code view because it generates the XHTML / CSS code for you, and this results in code that is at best adequate and at worst bloated and over-complicated.

The best is to learn working with Dreamweaver and to get a good understanding of standards-compliant XHTML / CSS.

Adobe Dreamweaver is also very useful for the beginner in web design. Beginner designers might be slightly overwhelmed but they will find the layout view highly insightful. But also the somewhat advanced functions are amazing; Adobe Dreamweaver has tools that will able you to easily connect to a database and Adobe Dreamweaver also has a build in FTP client which can synchronize the remote files with your work folder.

You can't really compare Adobe Dreamweaver with any product. Dreamweaver can be put into a class of itself as a kind of application you use before you learn how to code properly. Drag & drop interfaces for coding just don't feel right for me - if you can't build the system yourself, then you don't know how it will actually behave when it goes live.

The Advantages of using Adobe Dreamweaver over basic html coding from scratch are enormous. Adobe Dreamweaver really can be put into a class of itself. There are so many fantastic features that you will not get in other standard editors. Adobe Dreamweaver really out performs all other HTML editors.

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