Dreamweaver [HELP NEEDED]

Tjbartz2009 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2006, 7:54 pm

Ok I need help with dreamweaver. I tried using a few tutorials but they are kinda weird to understand

If someone can give me a few screenshots that show the most used items in Dreamweaver and how to do useful things. Please Help!!!

Adbot · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2006, 7:54 pm

Nate · **Posted:** April 24th, 2006, 7:07 am

tjbartz2009 wrote:

Ok I need help with dreamweaver. I tried using a few tutorials but they are kinda weird to understand

If someone can give me a few screenshots that show the most used items in Dreamweaver and how to do useful things. Please Help!!!

I suggest to only use dreamweaver for editing pages, not creating them. There's some bugs with dreamweaver that are annoying. I find frontpage easy to use when I'm in a rush to code.

Jeff · **Posted:** April 24th, 2006, 2:44 pm

Sorry Nate, but in my opinion, FrontPage is crap. Microsoft isn't even going to continue this product.
But like what Nate said, use Dreamweaver is only good for editing, not creating.
HTML isn't really that hard and you shouldn't need a WYSIWYG editor to create pages.

Tjbartz2009 · **Posted:** April 24th, 2006, 2:44 pm

Yea I'm upgrading my clan homepage. I need to know how to do a few things. Can sumone give me a few pics to help me out?

Nate · **Posted:** April 24th, 2006, 4:53 pm

Jeff wrote:

Sorry Nate, but in my opinion, FrontPage is crap. Microsoft isn't even going to continue this product.
But like what Nate said, use Dreamweaver is only good for editing, not creating.
HTML isn't really that hard and you shouldn't need a WYSIWYG editor to create pages.

I wasn't saying it's the best, but i like frontpage for a quick page because there isn't that stupid bug that messes everything up. I wouldn't say frontpage for anything though, just my prefrences.

If you want to code something up use notepad.

Lord Zamorak · **Posted:** April 26th, 2006, 3:33 pm

Like all of them said, edited is the only good thing. New pages only help if you are just hopeless.

Adbot · **Posted:** April 26th, 2006, 3:33 pm

MattVortex · **Posted:** April 27th, 2006, 9:42 am

Nate wrote:

I suggest to only use dreamweaver for editing pages, not creating them. There's some bugs with dreamweaver that are annoying. I find frontpage easy to use when I'm in a rush to code.

Yuk. Frontpage. *shivers*

My dad used frontpage to make a website for his archery club. He then put all the pages from it into Dreamweaver, cleaned up the HTML, and it decreased some of the file sizes by 6kb. Frontpage puts loads of unnecessary crap in there. NEVER use frontpage.

Even worse is MS Word. If you make a website in MS Word, i may just have to kill you. MS Word HTML is so bad Dreamweaver has a command called "Clean up Word HTML".

Your best bet is to know HTML, XHTML and CSS inside out, then use dreamweaver (this is what I do). I keep switching between normal view and code view, and i get nice, valid XHTML/CSS pages.

Dreamweaver is good. But to be able to use anything like dreamweaver or frontpage, etc, etc, you need to know HTML, so you know you dont get any unneeded rubbish in there.

If you dont know HTML, XHTML and CSS, go to:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp - for HTML
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_intro.asp - for XHTML
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp - for CSS