revDAVE wrote:
> First of all - I know this is an entirely subjective question, and I know
> there's no single approach to learning this technology. I'm just looking for
> a few hints from seasoned professionals basically whether Dreamweaver
> verbose code (at least it looks like that to me at this beginning point) is
> all 'needed & necessary'...
>

Like you said it's all subjective, but my opinion is to learn the basics
first, then you can rely on your tools to take the mundane work out of
the way for you. I'd still suggest using an editor with code completion
though, because it will help you when you're trying to remember
parameter orders or even function names to a point.

After you feel comfortable with that, then you'll be able to understand
what the program is doing for you and it won't be a "black box" that
really is unsupportable. I find the best way to do that is to come up
with some little program that you code up for fun to help get you
through the learning stages. You'll learn more figuring out how to get
something to work than just copying and pasting code.

That's my 2 cents. Hope that helps.

--
Ray Hauge
www.primateapplications.com