Re: Web page tutorial in wdsc

Was listening to a netcast the other day that claimed Dreamweaver was
now "old" technology and they favored using a "content management"
application for a web site. The examples they gave were Drupal and
Wordpress and geared more toward driving data out of a backend database
then embedding much of anything in the HTML and little in CSS.

I don't know, I just can't keep up but sometimes it's fun trying.

Douglas Belcher
KV Pharmaceutical
St Louis, MO
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer

P.S. If anyone is interested it was Leo Laporte and his weekend radio
show converted to netcast.

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instead of embedding that stuff everywhere in the HTML code - easier
to maintain, too. They say!

It absolutely makes it easier to maintain! But I would recommend making
sure you do not use any sort of embedded css, either within the span/div
tags or at the top of the page. Make all style sheets external and you
save yourself the headache.

Also, as is said, tables are for tabular data, not for organization of

a

page.
Amen brother!

It seems that hardly any of the wysiwyg editors work in this new
regime

-

WDSC uses tables - certainly MS' InterDev does, and probably FrontPage

and

DreamWeaver -

Can't speak for the others but Dreamweaver 8 has plenty of good css
support and is set up so that you can do your layouts sans tables. And
from what I hear CS3 takes it a step further with css templates already
setup, i.e. 3-column pages, rounded corners, etc. I wish I had the cash
to upgrade....

and use a browser like FireFox to test your work, then adjust.

Just my 2 cents but I find it easier to code for IE and adjust for
firefox.

I'm just beginning - but I'm intrigued and moving forward, I hope.

Sounds like you've jumped it feet first and are doing great! Keep going
you'll love it! =)
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