On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:20:36 -0000, "PaulB" <pbird@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Olaf Schinkel wrote:
>> catchawave schrieb:
>>> Many thanks for the link, but I am quite new and relied on
>>> Dreamweaver to generate a lot of the code.
>> DO NOT USE Dreamweaver.
>> You want to programm, or do you want to be a IDE-Asshole?
>
>That seems a little harsh. To someone learning PHP DW has a good colour
>coded editor and there's no obligation to use their automatic coding
>although it's a good stepping stone. Perhaps you went direct from a
>standing start to notepad PHP, others didn't.

Using DreamWeaver as code editor is a working solution and by using it only
for hand writing code avoids the horrible code it produces automatically in
"design mode" or whatever it is called, BUT...

While syntax hilighting makes things easyer it certainly is not at all
absolutely necessary but it is something very usefull - however just for use
as text editor with syntax hilighting don't you think that it's a "bit" huge
(humongous really) for just a text editor with hilighting for only html, css
and perhaps php and couple other server side programming languages when there
are simple, powerfull, fast and small *text/code editor* programs with syntax
hilighting for numerous different document and programming languages?

Only reason to choose DreamWeaver instead of simple text/code editors for that
is that you want also to use the wysiwyg mode to generate code for you - which
results in quite horrible code (although I've seen worse and dreamweaver at
least keeps it quite withing standards I believe).

Just my opinion - and I don't want to bash dreamweaver... for wysiwyg web page
creation it is the best program I have seen but unfortunately I have not yet
seen actually good quality wysiwyg web page editor when it comes to the code
they create. Dreamweaver is however the best I have seen and if one wants to
use wysiwyg editor for web pages - in that case I would definately use DW.

>Paul

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