Dreamweaver Dreamweavers a good Webdesigning Studio

I recently downloaded Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8, and I can say that it is the greatest webdesigner that the world has ever seen! The only problem is that it costs too much money in my tastes, but otherwise it is perfect!Does anyone know of a webdesigning studio that does not cost any money and that can be downloaded off the internet?I tried using Notepad++ (search Google, I cannot recall the site) and it is a coder, but not a webdesign. It doesn't actually show you what the site will end up looking like, but it shows you colour-coded codes for your site.Any suggestions for good webdesigners?

uhm... you are looking for WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get"soo try google that.

uhm... you are looking for WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get"

soo try google that.

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I agree, if you want to work with Dreamweaver, you could also try Go Alive from Adobe. which is equally exensive.

 

This website has free html editors, HTML Builder XP Lite sounds like a good one. When I had some look around, some time back, I also liked: 1st Page 2000

 

give it a go.

 

EDIT: Fixed your BBcode

Edited January 9, 2006 by snlildude87 (see edit history)

My favoutite WYSIWYG HTML editor is FrontPage in MS Office XP.It can all populate features and functions.I like it.This tool have ONE minus - biggg resulting html code!But I use standard windows notepad for cutting a non-needed code.

The only problem is that it costs too much money in my tastes, but otherwise it is perfect!

DW is far from perfect. With it, people new to CSS build sites based solely on absolute positioning which look fine on their monitors, at their screen res and their font size, but as soon as any of those variables change, their layouts invariably break.

Dreamweaver is also really good for learning some code because after a well you get used to seeing it but even then i cannot imagine making a website with microsoft notepad

eh i think notepad is the best way to learn.

If you are still new to this, I would recommend starting with notepad++, or any other text editor with code highlighting, since it's the best way to learn coding.About cheap wysiwyg editor, I think Namo webeditor is what you're looking for.

i agree that dreamweaver is the best web pages editor, and it's also one of the best developing programs,i also use Zend, i recommend zend to any developer.

yh it is quite good.. i have one but i lost the serial number lol soO im basically not able to use it but good old fashioned notepad and internet explorer is the best thing i can use especially in my situation

I recently downloaded Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8, and I can say that it is the greatest webdesigner that the world has ever seen! The only problem is that it costs too much money in my tastes, but otherwise it is perfect!

Does anyone know of a webdesigning studio that does not cost any money and that can be downloaded off the internet?

I tried using Notepad++ (search Google, I cannot recall the site) and it is a coder, but not a webdesign. It doesn't actually show you what the site will end up looking like, but it shows you colour-coded codes for your site.

Any suggestions for good webdesigners?

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I personally use dreamweaver for my website, and I love it. I mostly use the normal (non-coding) view, as I don't know any programing languages, and its incredibly easy. I've also learned a little bit of html from looking at the code on my website and copying the code to posts on other sites. I love it.

Wow.. So Dreamweaver Is That Good? I Heard That People Start Designing It In Photoshop And Then Transfer The Code Into Dreamweaver.

Having spent since late '94 using text editors to build web pages, I've come to expect certain things. The most important is that any web page I write only changes when I want it to. With a text editor, you always have complete control over your web page.Now with some visual HTML editors, this does not hold true. I've experimented with loading pages into both Netscape and Microsoft products and then saving the result. The page may or may not still look the same, but the HTML behind the page almost always has been changed. Merely opening the page in some editors *automatically* changes your HTML even if you make no edits of your own on that page. If you have gone to the time and expense of building a valid web site, you don't really want semi-random changes to that site.Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for developing and maintaining web sites that will respect your HTML. The full commercial package includes a lot of tutorial information to help you start your web sites, and either Homesite 4.0 (for PCs) or BBEdit 5.0 (for Macs) which are stand-alone text based editors. Having both a good visual editor and a good text editor in one package can be a real advantage for a small company. It will give people a choice of tools to use, and some will prefer one to the other.peace out

I still think dreamweaver is one of thes BEST tools of a webdesigner ..Just cos i really love the functionality and also the the way the tools are placed i just hoped dreamweaver could become some kinda php GUI interface

Having spent since late '94 using text editors to build web pages, I've come to expect certain things. The most important is that any web page I write only changes when I want it to. With a text editor, you always have complete control over your web page.
Now with some visual HTML editors, this does not hold true. I've experimented with loading pages into both Netscape and Microsoft products and then saving the result. The page may or may not still look the same, but the HTML behind the page almost always has been changed. Merely opening the page in some editors *automatically* changes your HTML even if you make no edits of your own on that page. If you have gone to the time and expense of building a valid web site, you don't really want semi-random changes to that site.

Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for developing and maintaining web sites that will respect your HTML. The full commercial package includes a lot of tutorial information to help you start your web sites, and either Homesite 4.0 (for PCs) or BBEdit 5.0 (for Macs) which are stand-alone text based editors. Having both a good visual editor and a good text editor in one package can be a real advantage for a small company. It will give people a choice of tools to use, and some will prefer one to the other.

peace out

I think you have said pretty much everything that I wanted to say I have not spent the last decade using text editors, and I am relatively new to the whole web design scene - but I did start off with Emacs, moved on to Vi and I now use Kate for programming, Kile for scientific typesetting and Quanta for interactive web editing when I need it. So there... slightly fancy text editors without the WYSWIG has been what's worked for me of late. I must say I completely second the post above, especially with regard to the point it makes about not having full control over the code generated. I have a special distaste for Frontpage as a consequence (sorry to FP fans, no offence!).

I'm sure DW is powerful and beautiful; and even better when used with PS or other tools, but for me it's a ) been too expensive and b ) not accesible (me use Linux most of the time, so...).

Cheers!