Re: Web page tutorial in wdsc

You're right. I've been using Drupal <http://drupal.org>, and it's API
<http://api.drupal.org> allows me to do just about anything I need to do
with the CMS. I write the add-on modules using Eclipse w/ the
PHPEclipse <http://phpeclipse.de> plugin. IBM did a series of
DeveloperWorks articles
<http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX46&S_CMP=HP>
showing how to build a business site with it.

As for a web page tutorial, I like the one HTML Dog <http://htmldog.com>
has. It does separate (X)HTML and CSS tutorials, but they tie into each
other so that you are writing the CSS in the CSS Lesson for the HTML you
did in the HTML Lesson. I'll also second the recommendation for
anything by Eric Meyer regarding CSS.

-- Corey Bordelon
.: An avid Eclipse user that wishes he could just get the plugins that
WDSC uses instead of leaving the environment he already has setup.

DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.

Well, this is just my opinion, but I've done a bit with Wordpress and some
other content management systems and while they work great from the
standpoint of being a user, they aren't much good from a developers
perspective. Someone still needs to code the bells and whistles and
that's much easier to do with something like DW8 than it is trying to do
it from Wordpress' hokey little editor.

Content managers are great for people who write content. Development
environments like DW8 are great for developers who write content managers.
=)

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