Comments on: I Got Yer DreamWeaver Right Here http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/10/24/i-got-yer-dreamweaver-right-here/ My opinions...if you don't lke 'em, get your own Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:04:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dorothea Salo http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/10/24/i-got-yer-dreamweaver-right-here/#comment-293 Dorothea Salo Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=314#comment-293 Well, I agree with you. There's no harm at all in learning Dreamweaver, and potentially a lot of good. And some people *do* get to understand the underpinnings via Dreamweaver, which is cool -- but that isn't the norm. Mostly what beginners learn from DW and Front (gah!) Page is bad habits. But all's well that. The person who emailed me wrote again to say that he really wished someone would teach XML. Heh heh heh. I bet it's just gonna frost his britches that I can. Well, I agree with you. There’s no harm at all in learning Dreamweaver, and potentially a lot of good.

And some people *do* get to understand the underpinnings via Dreamweaver, which is cool — but that isn’t the norm. Mostly what beginners learn from DW and Front (gah!) Page is bad habits.

But all’s well that. The person who emailed me wrote again to say that he really wished someone would teach XML.

Heh heh heh. I bet it’s just gonna frost his britches that I can.

]]> By: Ginger http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/10/24/i-got-yer-dreamweaver-right-here/#comment-294 Ginger Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=314#comment-294 I couldn't do some of the things I've done for some of my gaming sites without Dreamweaver. Its project-management tools are fantastic, and make it very easy for me to do some difficult things on the House of Cards site with minimal effort (particularly moving characters from page to page and redoing templates). I also couldn't do some of the things I do, such as the layout on the character pages, if I didn't have solid HTML knowledge. When I used Dreamweaver at work, we had to fix the markup by hand on a regular basis. It doesn't write perfect HTML (even though it's better than FrontPage, or $DEITY forbid, Word). A competent web worker needs HTML. Dreamweaver is nice, but a smart person with HTML can teach herself Dreamweaver easily. (Ditto image manipulation and Photoshop, which I've been teaching myself for the last few years.) Oh, and since there are no comments over at CavLec, let me add: bad cess to the complainer for bitching at a volunteer. I couldn’t do some of the things I’ve done for some of my gaming sites without Dreamweaver. Its project-management tools are fantastic, and make it very easy for me to do some difficult things on the House of Cards site with minimal effort (particularly moving characters from page to page and redoing templates).

I also couldn’t do some of the things I do, such as the layout on the character pages, if I didn’t have solid HTML knowledge. When I used Dreamweaver at work, we had to fix the markup by hand on a regular basis. It doesn’t write perfect HTML (even though it’s better than FrontPage, or $DEITY forbid, Word).

A competent web worker needs HTML. Dreamweaver is nice, but a smart person with HTML can teach herself Dreamweaver easily. (Ditto image manipulation and Photoshop, which I’ve been teaching myself for the last few years.)

Oh, and since there are no comments over at CavLec, let me add: bad cess to the complainer for bitching at a volunteer.

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