![]() If you use any of the functionality apart from code view, you haven’t learned how to do anything correctly - if you are only using the design view you’ve thrown money away and what the blue blazes are you even using it for in the first place? It’s not just the design view - the templates it comes with often use outdated/outmoded half-assed techniques like javascript for rollovers ( what is this, 1998? Every time I see those “mm_” javascript functions I have the overwhelming urge to backhand someone!), the templating system (that DWT trash) insists on inserting comments that can break layouts in IE (yes, I said COMMENTS), the preview pane doesn’t actually render like any real browser - even the one it’s based on… and frankly it’s ridiculous for people to be blowing a grand or more on the functionality of filezilla, a flat text editor, and the ACTUAL browsers. I’ve never used it in Design view - a means of web design that certainly deserves all of those trucking expletives. Is that just because some people use it in Design view? It’s a pretty amazing text editor for coders. I don’t know about that, although I Googled it and this Free Suite looked inneresting. Personally I don’t think you need much more than that for web design, unless you want an alternative to Flash. Of course, there are some other great text editors that are pretty cheap, such as Coda or TextMate for Mac and E Text Editor for PC. For both Mac and PC there are Komodo edit, Aptana Studio and NetBeans.įor those text editors that don’t include FTP, there are plenty of free FTP programs, but one of the most popular is FileZilla. For Mac there are Kompozer, Cyberduck, Text-wrangler and KompoZer (to name a few). For PC there are options like Notepad++ (as mentioned), NoteTab, KompoZer, Vim, Intype, Crimson and PSP Pad (to name a few). There are lots of text editors that can be used in place of Dreamweaver-some with and some without FTP capabilities. Just about all of the commercial software has open source alternatives.įor Graphics, there are lots of alternatives.įor vector graphics (like Illustrator) there is Inkscape.
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