Question for you Web folks
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- pyeaton
Trying to clarify an issue with a "web" guy here.
Dreamweaver would be used to build a website as a last ditch kind of thing....right? Corporate websites should be designed in photoshop, and then coded for the web.....?
What are the issues with Dreamweaver and corporate websites?
Thanks folks.
- mrdobolina0
huh?
You cant make graphics with DW
- pyeaton0
Sorry, I didnt mean designing graphics in DW, but laying the page out in DW as a code generator.
- flavorful0
I guess the difference is ... a professional wouldn't use Dreamweaver and as a last ditch if someone needed to make something up that didn't know what they were doing they would use Dreamweaver...?
- mrdobolina0
Well, it is an html editor, so you definitely could use it to design a site, are you speaking about adobe imageready?
- grunttt0
so professionals don't use dreamweaver?
wtf do they use? hand coding?
- mrdobolina0
I know plenty of professionals that use dreamweaver.
- Gucci0
yeah. wtf are you on about?
- flavorful0
I don't know... hahaha.
I'm never helpful, doesn't anyone ever realize this?
- nocomply0
dreamweaver is just a tool for making websites. Noobs and pros both use it. The difference is that pros understand everything that goes on in there. If a pro didn't know how to use dreamweaver, i would be surprised.
- fluxismo0
yeah,
- jox0
I didn't even know people still hand coded. Do they?
- flavorful0
I hand code.
I haven't used DW since like version three (no reference, heh).
- grunttt0
i'm using pagemill 1.6.2.9.b. that's professional, right?
- jox0
Although being an ex-Notepad'er, you can't argue with the experience. But it takes FOREVER.
- pyeaton0
Thanks guys. Most of the agencies I have worked in as a print guy and marketing guy, it is always designed in PS, then given to the html guys for coding. Never Dreamweaver
- jox0
"then given to the html guys for coding. Never Dreamweaver"
So what did they use?
- flavorful0
Shrug ... I thought everyone hand coded. I think at the time I started there wasn't a lot of benefit to using an actual HTML editor - they couldn't do much.
- nocomply0
To clarify a little...noobs will rely heavily on the visual editor in dreamweaver, while pros will work mostly with the code view. But both still use dreamweaver. its def. the industry standard imo.
I can't imagine going back to notepad. Dreamweaver makes hand-coding a breeze.
- rasko40
learning can be fun!!
- mpfree0
wtf are you kids talking about?
Dreamweaver is fine. Ultimately, it depends on what your requirements are for a project.
Corporately?
Corporate websites are built with things like IBM Websphere Rational Application Developer. Websphere has plug-ins that allow you to check-in and check-out files for versioning and source control. Ever hear of IBM ClearCase or Harvest?
That's the money...