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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Caldazar on February 20, 2004, 11:35:48 am

Title: Dreamweaver
Post by: Caldazar on February 20, 2004, 11:35:48 am

I have during a longer time wanted to learn how to design webpages, and I felt that now is the time to do so.
I\'m downloading Dreamweaver at the moment, and I would like people to direct me to tutorials and guides (except from those that exist on macromedia.com)
Please, no \"Frontpage is much easier and kewler than Dreamweaver!!!11!\"
I know that Dreamweaver is a very difficult program, but I want to learn it from the ground.
Cheers

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Post by: lynx_lupo on February 20, 2004, 12:55:34 pm

Dreamweaver is great AND easy to use. There\'s nothing to fear. HTML knowledge is helpful, but not required.

You don\'t need tutorials.

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Post by: Caldazar on February 20, 2004, 01:05:00 pm

Learning a programs potential without a tutorial is hard and timeconsuming.
Anyways, found a great site in swedish, so thank you all for your consideration.

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Post by: seperot on February 20, 2004, 01:25:54 pm

beware 2004...2003 was waaaay better

if anyone has training things i wanna know too :)

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Post by: hook on February 20, 2004, 04:37:29 pm

i don\'t mind which app you use for your pages, as long as you write HTML/CSS by hand and validate the bugger ...it\'s the only way to make proper pages

i\'d recomend you learn it from:
http://www.w3schools.com/

validate HTML:
http://validator.w3.org/
validate CSS:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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Post by: Maxximus on February 20, 2004, 04:52:32 pm

Dreamweaver is the best wysiwyg html editor, without question.

Suggestion: when you create pages, use the page view that allows you to see the layout and the code at the same time. Use it often till you feel comfortable with it. You can learn a lot by simply watching the html code that is generated when you use the gui.

Good luck, go wild!

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Post by: lynx_lupo on February 20, 2004, 06:50:21 pm

If you have problems, use HTML 2.0(meta tag in head...) - this standard is very loose and lenient towards errors. ;)

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Post by: Rageburst on February 26, 2004, 03:35:16 am

For god\'s sake.... use Dreamweaver if you want to..... but please do not use drag/drop html tables.

If you\'re planning to work further using html scripts, php, jsp, asp, you will find out that Dreamweaver actually creates a load of rubbish code.


I guess it is good to create prototypes, but writing the code by hand is much more rewarding, and with CSS you can avoid the bad qualities of html tables.

Personally, I use a customized GVIM editor. I also use this same editor for most of my programming purposes. It is easily the most powerful editor out there once you get used to it. Replacing code patterns, navigating files with +5000 lines of code is much more easily done with GVIM.