WYSIWYG or text editor?

[Aegis]

I have used some of the 'what you see' features to look at code vs. what is produced.  I was going to ask a very general syntax question, but I think I'm going to start a separate thread.

The only reason I'm talking about Dreamweaver is that my better half, who's in school, got Adobe's CS 2 from one school, and the school to which she switched sent her CS 3.  I thought I might access Dreamweaver thru her CS 2.

Since I think I want to do programming, I probably should concentrate on the languages...now, let me run off and post my burning question.

[Computer Hope Admin]

No Microsoft didn't recommend that, if they did I would know I was talking to someone who didn't know what they were doing. The upgrade is the same as the full version on almost all types of programs, if it wasn't it would have the potential to cause a lot of issues. My best assumption is that it has something to do with how my drives are setup and/or how many files it has to open since it seems to only crash occasionally when linking to another page and it's having to scan through thousands of HTML pages and images.

If you're curious about it there is a trial version on their site that allows you to run the full program and play with it.

[stevejohnson1958]

I understand...

What I was thinking, though was that you said you used the upgrade program to upgrade Front Page...instead of a clean install of the program itself.  There is a difference...though it may be slight.

I will try the program...I also noticed the trial version when I visited their web page.

I'll let you know how it goes...only issue is that I don't think I'll be forking out $299 any time soon.

Thanks, again, Nathan...

[DukeIcewalker]

I voted, so I might as well post:

I'm a newbie at web design; Dw CS3 is my graphical designer of choice-- haven't figured it out yet completely though.  It seems to like to create lots of code.  Someday I'll learn how to edit it.

[Aegis]

Yes, I was warned that Dreamweaver was going to generate a lot of code, and your observation bears out that warning.

[CBMatt]

I've never been a big fan of WYSIWYG.  For awhile, I tried using a program called ActualDrawing and it was actually fairly useful, but programs like that tend to have limited functionality.  I have DreamWeaver, but I can't really get myself to use it.  Every time I try, I get frustrated and end up going back to Notepad, which is what I have always used, ever since I first started learning any type of coding.  I write all of my (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP/MySQL codes/scripts in Notepad, unless I'm unable to for some reason.  When I'm debugging errors, I'll switch to Notepad++ to make it a little easier.

[Aegis]

Interesting -- I guess I'd never even considered what software I was going to use to write if I didn't use Dreamweaver.  Right now, my main focus is making corrections and improvements to an existing site.  I'm using HTML Kit for that, and it seems all right.