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How many of you recommend me to use Dreamweaver for web development...i have just started using that software

recommendation for a software

16th Nov 2016, 7:36 PM
himanshu
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can u imagine if i type all codes how much time it would take to complete even a small project...and many of your points are correct Dreamweaver gives extra lit of useless codes but if i know much about web coding i could replace those with something else...the main good point about Dreamweaver is that if you are to make a huge website dw is perfect bcoz u won't be spending 100's of hours typing codes
16th Nov 2016, 9:01 PM
himanshu
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I wouldn't recommend Dreamweaver for the following reasons biggest complaint against Dreamweaver is that most users will “write” their code using the visual tools. With little or no understanding of what they’re actually doing, the “developers” drag-and-drop tables, widgets, and god-only-knows what else onto a page and publish it to the web. While this sounds like a good idea in theory (anyone can build a website!), the reality is that the end-result is an unstable piece of garbage. Dreamweaver doesn’t teach the developer anything about good coding practices, and it undermines the idea that well-trained web development professionals should be paid appropriately for their skills.Dreamweaver generates terrible code.When I say that the end-result of Dreamweaver site is an unstable piece of garbage, I mean that the code Dreamweaver generates is not even close to W3C compliant. This is a really big deal because the worst-case scenario (which happens on a regular basis) is that your website doesn’t work in different browsers. When I look at the source code for a webpage, I can tell within about five seconds if it was written in Dreamweaver. It’s so obvious when I see things like FONT tags in about 700 places. . . any good web developer would be using CSS to control that.Dreamweaver encourages bad habits.Speaking of CSS, Dreamweaver encourages you to put CSS definitions in the page itself. From an architectural standpoint, this is just plain dumb – but since Dreamweaver makes no attempt to teach developers how to propertly structure a website, I’m not at all surprised. What’s worse is that this bad habit has a negative impact on how fast a webpage loads, so in effect Dreamweaver is making your website suck. If you have large website, magnify this problem (and similar situations) exponentially and you can see how bad it might get. Your visitors will get tired of waiting for your crappy site to load and leave.
16th Nov 2016, 8:38 PM
Root
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what should i use then?
16th Nov 2016, 8:44 PM
himanshu
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notepad++
10th Dec 2016, 6:59 AM
Harsh Ranjan
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I would personally use notepad ++ as that will give you full control over your code and will give you a better understanding of developing websites
16th Nov 2016, 8:52 PM
Root
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I would prefer to write decent code, I'm saying if your learning use notepad as your coding improves then use Dreamweaver once you understand the fundamentals of Web development.
16th Nov 2016, 9:08 PM
Root