RE: FLASH: Dreamweaver vs. HTML in Notepad

[BStoudt]

A great article on the subject.

http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=3817&Method=Full&Title=Street%2

0Level:%20Editors%20vs.%20%20Authoring%20Tools&Cache=False


I don't want to add fuel to this fire (no flames please) but this issue will

never die. 

There are two types of websites, the types that are low traffic (less than

say 50,000 hits per month) and high traffic sites(50,000++)


There are a whole slew of reasons that the a high traffic site must be "Hand

Coded", and not done with a WYSIWYG editor.


Dreamweaver is great for smaller sites and low traffic sites where it's

little idiosyncrasies wont make much of a differences.  However I have taken

a page created in Dreamweaver  and coded my own identical page.  The

dreamweaver document was 10K and mine was 5K,  Half the file size is half

the download time for HTML file and over the course of a million hits that's

alot of data.  As I said before this only really matters with high traffic

sites.


As to the issue that dreamweaver being faster than notepad, possibly, its

faster than notepad, but definitely not faster than a talented person with

an HTML editor(such as Allaire Homesite my personal favorite) I have proven

this fact against people who thought that they could put up a page with

Dreamweaver faster than I could, coding my own HTML (this point was not

intended as a boast so I will just say that I proved him wrong and my page

was half the size). 


Then there's the matter of compatibility I'm not even going to go there.


Also with more and more sites going to ASP (I won't claim to know how

Dreamweaver handles ASP if at all) but I think that it would be imperative

to have a good working knowledge of HTML that can only come from coding your

pages.


Personally I found HTML extremely easy to learn back in 1995. I don't quite

see the reasoning behind having a WYSIWYG editor in the first place since

HTML is so straight forward but to each his own.

At any rate I think you should use what ever tool you feel most comfortable

using. If you chose to use Dreamweaver It is my own personal opinion that

you first learn the "ins and outs" of HTML and I think you will find

Dreamweaver limiting.


I am sorry if I have offended anyone it wasn't my intention just expressing

my opinion.


Bill Stoudt

Director of Rich Media

Interplay.com





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Subject: RE: FLASH: DreamWeaver vs HTML in Notepad



I'd say a guy that knows Dreamweaver.  Knowing HTML is all well and good,

but it's really just an integral part of web design today.  Hopefully,

you'll never find someone on Dreamweaver that doesn't understand HTML syntax

(at least the basics).


Anyone who just codes by hand, however, would take a MUCH longer time to do

things like DHTML and other Behaviors that Dreamweaver simplifies, not to

mention scripting shortcuts...


[Although I have to say, John, that Dreamweave code (not much unlike

Frontpage code) is one of the most confusing that I've seen on the planet.]

:)


-Steve

A Proud Dreamweaver (and occasional Notepad) user.



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