Building a website.... O.o

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Well I'm in college in my first year of BTEC IT and we have to build a website in Dreamweaver. ARGH! Anyway it has to be a fancy dress website. I really don't know where to start with dreamweaver and college won't give me a copy of the program to put on my laptop, even though it will be used for college work and nothing else. Stupid or what?? I have coded with HTML in the past (I learnt it myself). :)

Probably a pointless thread but, I'm like to know your experiences with dreamweaver/ website building? Any disasters or anything funny?

Jon
 
Don't use the drag and drop in my opinion :)

Code it with HTML / CSS, and you will probably get a long just fine, as Dreamweaver is just an editor tool.

If the college wont "give" you Dreamweaver from home use, you could always put your HTML / CSS into notepad and save them as a .txt, then just put it on a fob or email it to yourself, then you can just copy and paste it into dreamweaver, should render the same.
 
Dreamweaver got me started with webdesign, but you find after a while it puts its own crap in there. so if you can hard code thats better.
Same as ciphon said its just a editing tool and should save as html and css files that you can use with notepad.
It can be a bit tempremental with SFTP protacols
 
I recently did my first website for an e-commerce module at uni, which was a bit tiresome (html, css, javascript, php, sql etc.) but it was my first time designing/making a website and i thought dreamweaver was really good. I used aptana studio before aswell which is about the same.

W3schools really helped me and there are loads of sites out there to help with css layouts etc.
 
Ciphon said:
Don't use the drag and drop in my opinion :)

Code it with HTML / CSS, and you will probably get a long just fine, as Dreamweaver is just an editor tool.

If the college wont "give" you Dreamweaver from home use, you could always put your HTML / CSS into notepad and save them as a .txt, then just put it on a fob or email it to yourself, then you can just copy and paste it into dreamweaver, should render the same.
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I would but it's been a long time since I did any coding, that I last did it on my PC. I now have a Mac. Do you know of a good and simple notepad type app?
 
macfb said:
oh come on, you know you love it. :p

:D:D:D:D
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It's like being made beat your head repeatedly against a wall in the vein hope that the wall will crack first.



Do you have to use dreamweaver or is it just build a website and we suggest you use dreamweaver? If the latter I highly suggest learning to hard code first. Really not that hard and much better results.
 
Cuchulain said:
Rubbish, you'll get NO better results from coding by hand than you will using an editor.
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I'd say if you code via notepad instead of an editor (especially visual drag and drop) you have a much deeper understanding of how the code works.

I learned via reading on the internet / books and practicing in notepad.

I now work in development and use Visual Studio 2005/2008 + MS SQL 2005 (Mainly DB stuff :D)
 
If you have the time to learn the notepad way first, then do so (i did). If you need quick results, Dreamweaver is your friend.
 
Edward01 said:
Well you're wrong :p
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Tell me how I'm wrong? If I want to edit a stylesheet for a page, do you think it's quicker to select the element in Dreamweaver and then simply edit it there and then or open the stylesheet, search for your selector and then edit it? Is it quicker to type out all of your tags rather than have most of them done for you?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting anyone uses Dreamweaver built in JS or dynamic behavior garbage but the fact is, for general stuff it's much quicker.
 
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