Saturday, September 12, 2009

Is Dreamweaver really the Best Solution?

By Tyreek Deonte

Internet is a place where a company or an individual can have a presence without much overhead. Many people use this medium to spread their message across to people. There are several web development application software in the market that are trying to market to people who want to build a good and efficient website in the shortest possible time. Dreamweaver is software that can be used for designing and deploying both small and medium scale web projects. Dreamweaver allows a designer to concentrate on the design rather than on the mode of using the tags and other technicalities, this has made Dreamweaver very popular amongst the developers and designer of websites. Here are the reasons.

Trouble free installation procedure: Dreamweaver has one of the most trouble free and error free installation process for software as sophisticated as this. Dreamweaver has a one click installation that installs and does the basic configuration for you. Any designer or developer can from then on use the software to design and implement websites. The un-installation process as easy as the installation process itself, you have a one click un-installation with an option to save your profiles and configuration files for future use.

Easy to use graphical user interface: Good software must have a good menu based user interface that can be used by most users to do and complete the task successfully. Even novice users who are new to web designing can easily understand the menu based system in Dreamweaver. The interface separates different kinds of menus and then collects them together for the user to choose and put the menus that he would use in one particular group.

Dreamweaver Provides easy navigation: The navigation system inside the main user interface of Dreamweaver is uncluttered and customizable, you can easily place the tabs that you use the most in a place that you want it to be and save that profile. The profile makes sure that you can add it at a later time and even if someone else uses the system, your settings would not get affected. You can also password protect the profile. The most used tabs are provided at the right side that can be easily grabbed and placed anywhere. You can also collapse and expand the window inside the main design area.

Easy to use command system: There are several commands that one might have to use while designing a webpage using software, there might be a tag that you would be using often and you would require it to be used without going out and searching for it. This is very much possible in Dreamweaver, you can use Hotkeys to access some of the options and then do the designing.

Easy implementation and deployment at a server: Dreamweaver provides easy methods to connect to a local or a remote server and transfer the whole project there. It saves the designer or developer a lot of time by not using a different FTP program to do it. The configuration for doing this is straightforward and anyone can easily do it. The code that would be generated by Dreamweaver is validates according to W3C and thus testing time is very less. You can also test the website at a local server before actually putting it live on a remote web server. This is the main reason the Dreamweaver software has become a force in the web designing industry.

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