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Originally Posted by stuffssguy
what is wrong with dreamweaver? I am putting everything together with it, but I am using a lot of outside code, and looking over it myself too. Oh I think someone asked, but the version is the newest CS3.
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Like I said, Dreamweaver isn't a bad program. It's just that if you use it in Design View, it will add all kinds of unnecessary HTML, CSS, and Javascript code into the page. The amount of useless code generated by Dreamweaver has gotten better over the years, but in the long run it will me much better if you learn XHTML and CSS, and create websites by hand.
Once you get over the initial learning curve, it often becomes much faster to keep static HTML websites updated by doing everything in Code View. Here, Dreamweaver - with it's color syntax features, auto-complete, and more - all vastly speed up web development.
Personally, my favorite application that I use
Coda, which is an amazing application for web development, but it's only available for Mac. But when I'm using my laptop, I use Dreamweaver (version MX, which is six years old. I don't care, it's fully functional, and instead of spending about $400 on Dreamweaver CS3 I'd rather spend a combined total of $100 to get Transmit and Coda and put the rest of the $300 saved towards that 24" iMac I've been eying for a while.
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