What DreamWeaver Training Do You Advice For Me…?

[ozim400]

[California Jerry]

You may want to look at NVU open source html editor.

Here's a review: www.thesitewizard.com/reviews/nvu.shtml
Here's a tutorial: www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/nvu1.shtml

[theuniek1]

Hi Patrick,
There are quite a few learning sources for Dreamweaver.

If you're a visual learner (i.e. you like videos), then I'd suggest visiting (). For text tutorials, there is . Neither of these sites offer free tutorials, however, they are both top quality. If reading a book is your pleasure, then consider .

Off the top of my head, I don't know any free Dreamweaver tutorial resources, but you can always do a .

~ Teli

[Alan Petersen]

Check out Video-Tutes, Andrew has many

He's good guy and his tutorials are very helpful. You'll love Dreamweaver, IMO it's the best of the lot.

[theuniek1]

[robert adams]

I have a question. Isn't DW still very expensive?

If so, then why do so many people that have no knowledge of web sites and design, spend all that money on something they don't know anything about?


also, just FYI,

if you ever plan on using any type of web based applications like this phpbb bulletin board or any other type of php/mysql scripts. then you will not be able to use DW or FP or any other site builder type of software to install/run them.

robert

[theuniek1]

Robert,
To answer your first question - expensive is a relative term based on a person's beliefs and goals. If you're a web company, DW is not expensive. If you're not a web company/developer, then yes, it is expensive. Some people may invest in the product with intentions of learning it for the future and to possibly growing their business using it.

Free alternatives do exist - comes to mind - and I recommend them for people not going into web dev, but DW is pretty much the industry standard.

As for the second part of your comment, I must disagree. You can use Dreamweaver for PHP and just about any other coding language such as VB, Javascript, or AJAX because it allows you to define a local testing environment (you will need to have the software installed on your computer, for instance, if you're testing PHP applications/designs), therefore, tweaking/testing phpBB or WordPress themes or any other PHP based application with Dreamweaver is not a problem.

Dreamweaver also goes a step further and will parse the HTML of a page to display it in design view. That means, if you have a basic layout with a few PHP snippets sprinkled throughout, then PHP will show you what the design will look like (as best it can) and add a little icon to note where the PHP code exists in the page.

This is an advantage over blindly installing the software on a production site and praying there aren't any problems with it.

~ Teli

[robert adams]

that is not what I said. If, for instance, you are wanting to edit any of the files for this bulletin board here ( phpbb ), and you open the file in DW, it will most likely corrupt that file. If you use DW to "publish" this phpbb software to your server, it will almost always corrupt the files during transfer.

programs like DW and Frontpage and golive, and other wysiwyg web site builders, add bits of code to the files when you use them, php and tpl files will not work when that happens.
I repair phpbb installs and edits every day that have been ruined this way.

Now, if you really know how to use DW etc. then you may be able to use them without this problem.

However, most people do not know how to use them properly.

Also, having said that, it goes back to my first question. The current cost of $400 US for DW is rather steep for someone who just wants to put up a personal website, especially if they are beginners.


I was not talking about web designers, etc.

What I deal with is people that are putting up personal sites, or adsense sites that want to install a bulletin board on their site.
DW is fine for the rest of the site, but not for phpbb or any other php/mysql based web apps.

In my not so smart opinion, even web pages created with it are hard to work with if you do not have DW and know how to use it.

If you start trying to edit, update, the regular html pages created with it, you often find problems with directory paths, for images, etc. that are different from standard.

robert

[theuniek1]