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BroadbandMan
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Dream Weaver VS FP2002 - 6/17/2004 14:02:16
I’m wondering if some of you could possibly give me some advice about whether I should be placing my mostly finished FP site (DSL-Experts) into Dream weaver to finish up. The more I read about page ranking and clean HTML (will Dream weaver help me to do this? If so how?), not to mention the little bugs that annoy the heck out of me in FP (shared borders and like crap), it seems that I shouldn’t really be using this program for my business, the last thing I want to do is shoot myself in the foot from the “get go” so to speak. I know it might take me some time to learn Dream weaver but if it makes for easier site building in the long run, not to mention cleaner HTML etc. then in my mind it’s worth it. I’m hoping you can send me in the right direction about where to find resources (other than this forum which has me outstanding to me BTW!) online & what the best way to go about actually learning code is. I suppose I should have asked about these things before I ever got started, but I'm a very hands on type. I appreciate anything your willing to share with me while I’m going through this painful learning curve!
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Giomanach
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RE: Dream Weaver VS FP2002 - 6/18/2004 3:39:52
Colin
This debate can't be answered on a forum. You have to decide which one is easier for you to use. In the long run, I think it would be worth having a copy of both. I do. I use DW for most design work, and when I can't be bothered to hand-code the pages.
Decide which on is easier for you to use, then say to us, which one your going to use.
To see what you can do with DW, go here: http://www.zenfulcreations.com and look at the portfolio
You can also look at my home page http://www.giomanach.com and my portfolio, all hand-coded and Dreamweaver.
I haven't got any FP webs up yet. I haven't seen the need to use it.
HTH
Dan
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dpf
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RE: Dream Weaver VS FP2002 - 6/18/2004 10:04:27
Colin: this is a question that gets raised frequently and spurs lots of opinions. Here is a recent discusion:
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http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-205503/mpage-1/key-dreamweaver//tm.htm#205818
Quite frankly, having seen your struggles and understanding that you have some urgency to get your site on-line, I dont think abandoning FP would be your best shot at this moment. You have acheived a wrokable site and outght to go with that , even if behind the scenes you begin reworking it.
IMHO, FP's reputation for dirty, non-standard, proprietary code was well deserved but is diminishing. Most people (not everyone) believe that Dreamweaver's learning curve is a little steeper than FP so, again, it might take you awhile to learn if before you could use it.
The fact is that html code is quite simple to learn - before I trigger an avalanch or arguments, I understand that taken to the expert level, knowing html and css is a huge undertakling but what I mean is learning the fundamentals of html and certainly up to tables, is in fact quite easy and extremely useful even if using FP or Dreamweaver, This forum has some outstanding html tutorials and time spent there is well worth it.
Good luck - you are making great progress.
ps..as soon as we say that clean code is the key, any of us can spot some high ranked pages with very cluttered code..the debates about search engine ranking always bring out that there is an element of alomost mystery to it..lol....who knows what they look for
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markhawker
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RE: Dream Weaver VS FP2002 - 6/27/2004 17:29:06
Colin, from my experiences I'd say DW. I've looked at FP a few times and it does like adding its own custom tags etc. and using tables was an almost nightmare for me, always having to check the code etc. It really depends on how fast you learn, DW is quite easy to pick up, once you get yourself familiar with the layout of the program etc.
Basically you can 'do a lot of things' with a variety of different programs, some approach things in better ways than others. Find one that you're comfortable using and you know what extra tags its adding (DW does have a tag clean-up facility that removes extra MS code) and stick with that.
Don't see it as 'painful' see it as an exciting experience, I'm sure you'll pick things up easily. Don't forget, we're always here if you get stuck!
Mark
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