Should I learn Dreamweaver or FrontPage to make web pages?

Should I learn Dreamweaver or FrontPage to make web pages?
Both Dreamweaver and FrontPage are WYSIWYG (What You See Is
What You Get) web page editors. For basic web page development,
either one will do the job. In a review in the October 2001 issue
of PC Magazine, both programs were awarded five out of five stars
and both were Editors' Choice winners. FrontPage was cited as the
pick for ease of use, while Dreamweaver was the pick for advanced
applications. Compare the pros and cons for each program below and
make your choice. If you feel really adventurous, learn both!
Dreamweaver
Pros Cons
Relatively low-cost educational price ($99)
Available in Education labs
Produces very "clean" HTML code; easy to transport and work
with
Available in identical versions for both Windows and
Macintosh platforms
Supports development of your own template for pages in a
website
Relatively easy to set up for communicating with a server
from office or home
Powerful set of features for adding interactive elements to
web pages
Extensible - many extensions are available on the Macromedia
website
Has built-in tools to clean up HTML from other sources, such
as Microsoft Word
More expensive than FrontPage
Not available in all labs across campus
Not currently supported by SOE Technical Support Services
Somewhat difficult to learn at first
FrontPage
Pros Cons
Very low-cost -- free on-campus and only $5 for off-campus
use via Campus Microsoft Agreement
Available in labs across campus
Supported by SOE Technical Support Services
Easy to learn because of the familiar Microsoft menus and
toolbars
Comes equipped with many predesigned web page templates
Very easy to edit on SOE servers
Easy to add some features, such as some forms, to web pages
Doesn't produce code as cleanly as Dreamweaver
Current edition is available for Windows only; Macintosh
version is outdated and no longer being updated
Some features are specific to the Microsoft platform only
Lacks Dreamweaver's interactive development tools
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work with
> Available in identical versions for both Windows and
Macintosh platforms

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Can I used Dreamweaver CS5.5 to learn to build and style a web page? I see the CC version but I want to use the earlier version. THx

you can use the 30 trial and/or purchase from a 3rd party.
for the trial:
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IPhoto still won't make web pages using the comments field

I am someone who makes use of the comments field in iPhoto. I don't edit the title, because I thought it edited the photo file name (perhaps only in earlier iPhoto versions). Unfortunately, the Apple's tools for making a web page from iPhoto '08 seem to still use the title field only and not the comment field. That means that I have to edit all titles (to blank or a proper title) if I just want to show an annotation on just a few photos in a web page. At least the comments field defaults to blank, so I normally use it, along with the Better HTML plugin to make web pages, http://www.geeksrus.com/software/betterhtmlexport/
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I know what you mean. I can't believe that after so many versions of iPhoto that have supported publishing of some sort that such a basic and obvious feature still hasn't been implemented. It can't take that much effort to add. I'd rather have that than the new (and IMHO completely useless) "Events" feature. Speaking of which, does anyone know if there is a way to turn it off? It's annoying the heck outta me. I hate it.

Web Page in Dreamweaver doesn't look like Web Page on Internet.

http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~genient/
My Web Page looks like this on my Windows XP computer (but in script:
Membership Fees are due on 1 July each year. The benefits of Membership include the
monthly mail-out of our Magazine Progenitor, keeping you in touch with the latest news on research. Contact us by Email to receive an application form and information sheet, by Telephone 08-8981 7363 or by Fax 08-8981 7383.
My HTML Code looks like this:
Membership</a> Fees are due on 1 July each year. The benefits of Membership include the 
monthly mail-out of our Magazine Progenitor, keeping you in touch with the latest news on research. Contact us by <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=membership enquiry">Email</a> to receive an application form and information sheet,
 by Telephone 08-8981 7363 or by Fax 08-8981 7383.
If I open the same site on the Web,
the Web page looks like this, except this copy of View Source did not pick up the BOLDFACE effect on the webpage, which I will now add manually:
Membership Fees are due on 1 July each year. The benefits of Membership include the
monthly mail-out of our Magazine Progenitor, keeping you in touch with the latest news on research. Contact us by Email to receive an application form and information sheet, by Telephone 08-8981 7363 or by Fax 08-8981 7383.
and the HTML Code looks like this in VIEW/SOURCE
and why those boxes/frames have appeared (they are not visible in the VIEW-SOURCE on the web) I don't know.:
Membership of GSNT
 <a href="/~genient/aboutus.htm">Membership</a> Fees are due on 1 July each year. The benefits of Membership include the 
monthly mail-out of our Magazine Progenitor, keeping you in touch with the latest news on research. Contact us by <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=membership enquiry">Email</a> to receive an application form and information sheet,
 by Telephone 08-8981 7363 or by Fax 08-8981 7383.
And when I try LIVE VIEW, firstly it said I needed Flash Plugin. I downloaded that. It still says that A Flash Netscape/Firefox Plugin was not found. (Comment: I have used firefox on a computer, and found it very high-handed and intrusive),
Fnally, I tried to match the beginning HTML of a page which DOES look correct on the web, but there is no difference.
http://members.iinet.com.au/~genient/Directory%20of%20Useful%20Internet%20Sites.html
Help, please?
Esther

according to the w3 validator your page has 96 errors! (thats a lot)
on first glance of the code there and many puzzling things I saw
firstly.
<title>Home Page Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory
</title>
not only can you not put font tags on a page title.
its nested wrong.
in any case the font tag is deprecated
secondly
whats with these style declarations?
.aliensheading { color: #008080;}
.aliensheading { color: #008080;}
.aliensheading { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;}
.aliensheading1 {color: #008080;}
.aliensheading1 {color: #008080;}
.aliensheading1 {font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;}
its just duplication of the same thing
is aliensheading any different to aliensheading1 at all?
and again here
.GREEN1 {color: #008080;}
.GREEN1 {color: #008080;}
.GREEN1 {color: #008080;}
and here
.Green {color: #408080;}
.GreenStrong {color: #408080;}
.GreenStrong {color: #408080;}
your CSS should be declared in a separate file, and if not, at least within the head of the document.
yours is sitting after the </head> but before <body> tag. its no wonder it isnt reading it!
thirdly what is this???



<img src="/~genient/images/GSNT Tree.GIF" width="75" height="55" alt="Tree" />



from what I can see this is the only relevant info
<img src="/~genient/images/GSNT Tree.GIF" width="75" height="55" alt="Tree" />
and all your million declarations of
 (all within a p mind you)
can simply be replaced with
p {
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:3; (although I'd prefer px myself)
fourthly you've got a list but it isnt a list because there is no <ul> or <ol> surrounding it.
and lastly
what is this????
</blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
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 <blockquote>
 <blockquote>
 <blockquote>
 <blockquote>
 <a href="/~genient/emungalan.htm"></a> 
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
 </blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
this site needs a serious overhaul. like serious.

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Some web pages don't fit the screen width and Firefox user (me) has to scroll horizontally, which is very annoying:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjyubp6f3z104ku/ScreenShot021.jpg
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Have had this problem for 2 years and several versions.
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Newbie learning Dreamweaver

Hello everybody - my first post! Really excited to be here.
I'm an Instructional Technology & Design graduate student who purchased Adobe CS5 Web Premium last fall, but didn't have too much time to really sit down with it until early this month. With the start of summer, I've fallen into an amazing volunteering opportunity with a small film production company who wants me to learn Dreamweaver and create a new website for them, at my own pace. I'm both excited, and terrified that I've bitten off more than I can chew (and let's face it, I probably have), but I'm going to do my very best anyway.
This isn't my very first time using Adobe products, but I'm still a beginner. I'm a fast learner, a good researcher, and very resourceful on the web. I've got my Adobe Classroom In A Book for Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop. I have good design sensibilities, but it's all the codes/scripts that make me super nervous - HTML, CSS, JavaScript PHP, MySQL, and the list goes on. I have a very elementary grasp of all of them.
I know that the people I'm working for eventually want the ability to go in and manage this website on their own, without needing to call me or any future designer for every little change. So I know that we're eventually looking at installing a CMS - and since we're with Dreamhost, I've got one-click install access to Drupal and Joomla.
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And of course, any other tips or comments are very welcome. Thank you!

Some reading...
Open Source CMS http://drupal.org/
Or http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
CSS explained http://forums.adobe.com/thread/507829?tstart=0
CSS Tutorials http://forums.adobe.com/thread/545660?tstart=0
As well as the links below - another way to learn (including anyone else's bad habits) is to find a page you like, and then tell your web browser to show you the code view for the page and/or do a "Save As" and save the page to your computer to then copy & paste code segments into your file (in IE click View at the top, select Source from the options)
HTML and/or DW Tutorials, and other information links that I have saved
http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/
http://webdesignledger.com/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
http://alistapart.com/topics/code
http://www.how-to-build-websites.com/
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
Download User Guide as PDF for easy search
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
http://lynda.com/ Hours of videos. (must pay)
http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/css.shtml
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/index.htm
If not PDF (link above) an online guide to read
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/
Nate's Forms http://www.mindpalette.com/scripts/
Customizing the layouts that come with CS3 (VIDEO)
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0155
FormMail http://www.bebosoft.com/products/formstogo/index.php
For those using MySQL - Installing PHP and MySQL on Windows XP
http://www.webassist.com/professional/products/solutionrecipes.asp
Community MX lessons http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=3D074
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Dreamweaver&go=Go
The Contact Form Solution Pack is only $29.99. To learn more, visit
http://www.webassist.com/go/cfsp
Web advisor extension to DW
Date and Time through Javascript http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/date-time/
Tutorial for building your first website:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt1.html
Tutorial on building a dynamic website (one with a database):
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_dynamic_site_pt1.html
HTM Color Codes
http://www.visibone.com/
or http://html-color-codes.com/
or http://www.pagetutor.com/common/bgcolors1536.html
or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/2397/

How long does it take and how should I learn...

Hi. First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
I am new to web-design (as in brand-new xD) and wish to learn Dreamweaver. With Dreamweaver being such a big application, with so many different tools etc I decided it would be best if I learned the languages I wish to use first, so as I know what Dreamwever is creating and I can 'fine-tune' my websites.
The languages I wish to learn are:
HTML
PHP
Javascript
MySQL (I am aware that this isn't a 'language', but would still like to learn how it works and use it effectively)
CSS
My questions are:
In which order should I learn these languages?
Which version of each language should I learn?
For example should I learn HTML5, with it being relatively new and not widely supported, but with the support growing so fast would it be worth just learning HTML5 straight away?
Can you reccomend any books etc for me to learn with? I am a full time college student, so will be teaching myself after college hours.
How long should I expect it to take to learn each language? (If you want to give the answer in days/months assume I will be spending 2hours per day average learning each language)
I do not want to learn every single detail about each language, but I do want to learn to a high enouhg level that I am comfortable with reading, understanding and editing my own code.
To help me understand your answers more clearly it would be great if you can just copy and paste this below (although feel free not to ):
What order should I learn these in?
Language:
Version:
How long (roughly) should it take?:
What resources van you reccomend for me to learn from?:
What experience do you have? (I'm just nosey like that :P):
Other comments:
Please feel free to copy and paste the second half (with all the questions) as many times as you like for each language you choose to tell me about.
Any help would be very greatly appreciated and please, if you for some reason find this post offensive, think back to when you were learning; everyone has to start somewhere.
Thanks for your time,
Ryan

Hi there
You will likely get better response by posting in the Dreamweaver forum.
Click here to visit the Dreamweaver forum
Cheers... Rick

How to make a page that should be inside an iframe load up its parent page?

Hello all
Here's my dilema...
I'm creating a site with page fragments that the user is able to view by having it load into an iframe. So far so good and it's all working perfectly well.
The problem that I envisage is that, even with no-index robot meta tags, Google et al are almost certain to index these page fragments and proffer them in search results.
So, my question to you is two-fold:
1 - how can I make a page fragment load up the parent page should it be selected from a Google search result
and
2 - once the parent page is loaded up, how can I then make it load the selected content page into the iframe so that the user sees what (s)he is expecting to see?
I'm imagining that it will require cookies and scripting, but I'm still at the (very) early stages of learning such stuff, so have no clue whatsoever on how to go about it!
Any bright ideas / tutorials / sites I can nick code from / complete solutions that I don't have to pay for would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Peter

AFAIK there's no practical way to do what you require. Sorry. This is one of the many downsides to Framed sites. It also makes bookmarking and printing pages difficult. Not to mention user unfriendly from a web accessibility viewpoint. Re-think your need for Iframes throughout an entire website. The best websites use one complete page for each topic. Index, About Us, Contact Us, etc...
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
www.twitter.com/altweb

How to make a page that should be inside an iframe load up it's parent page?

Hello all
Here's my dilema...
I'm creating a site with page fragments that the user is able to view by having it load into an iframe. So far so good and it's all working perfectly well.
The problem that I envisage is that, even with no-index robot meta tags , Google et al are almost certain to index these pages fragments and proffer them in search results.
So, my question to you is two-fold:
1 - how can I make the page fragments load up the parent page should it be selected from a Google search result
and
2 - once the parent page is loaded up, how can I then make it load the selected content page into the iframe so that the user sees what (s)he is expecting to see?
I'm imagining that it will require cookies and scripting, but I'm still at the (very) early stages of learning such stuff, so have no clue whatsoever on how to go about it!
Any bright ideas/tutorials/sites I can nick code from/complete solutions that I don't have to pay for would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Peter

Actually, I did carefully choose this forum as being the most appropriate since my question, or rather what I imagine the answer might be, will involve things like scripting and/or cookies.
Would that not make it "dynamic" enough to remain here?
Thanks
Peter

What language should I learn?

What single programming language should I learn that is most flexible? It's needs are to form the basis for MacOSX Cocoa applications, Linux command-line programs (and preferably least X11). This I ask here, for scientists likely lurk here, but don't always program in Objective C. (Though I've heard nothing but good things about it!)
Currently, I use a variant of APL to assist as I work. When simplifying my life, around 1980, I changed to one editor: the platform-independent emacs. Now I should like to do the same with a 'general' programming language.
Science is free, and scientists (I might suppose) support Richard Stallman's philosophy. Scientific source code needs be freely offered, written in an ISO standard language, and capable of being made platform-independent. It must easily be modified to use scientific libraries (lapack & netlib's others) and write linux, command-line programs, distributed by way of Sourceforge.
I've been separated from other scientists for a long time. Is there a language satisfying the above scientific requirements that can also write 'modular' object-oriented applications for MacOSX, using the Aqua interface? If there are no caveats to using 'Java' for this purpose, I'll invest time in that. Have scientists or others faced this question?
Thanks,
Bruce
PS. This question arose while searching for a simple little program to change images into icons:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7511505#7511505
Here's the continuation of that post, that illustrates the problem, likely faced my many:
Indeed, ... I could always use GraphicConverter.
This topic begs the question of why we use GraphicConverter or PhotoShop to change a single color in an image. That's wasn't always supposed to be the case.
Unix's credo: do only one thing, but do it well, and the popularity of Lotus 1-2-3, decades ago caused a great idea to emerge and gradually grow, until it became alive in developers' minds. Then it suffered a quick death, from unknown causes.
Modular Software
One day, a housewife becoming tired of spending a year learning and 'tuning' huge word processors to write a quick note saying she had gone to the corner market and would be back soon. The concept of modular software emerged: one would buy essentially, a text editor, then buy only those extra little modules you needed for your particular use: editing frills (as in emacs), formatting, adding images, importing & exporting formats, &c: 'personal' software. This needed a modular language; and, as it happened, C++ emerged soon. What ever happened to this idea (or the idea of using sounds for messages in addition to alarms, as in Growl), I never understood.
Simple Software
Many 'Google Images' have a white borders. It would be a clever idea to make background colors 'pure' (not in need of dithering when converted to a raster image). In the latter case, every GIF image could be dropped on an icon that could convert the lower-righthand pixel (the background) to a 'transparent' color. An old GIF image taken from the web could lose its background, and be ready to paste to the tiny icon in and 'Info Window'.
Simple Modules
Ah, but what about a Shft-Cmd-4 copy from my desktop? Mine are in JPEG format. I need to convert it to GIF. I could add a conversion module to the original little program (which could even convert to PNG). Ah, but the color of my Desktop varies or is, at least, not an 8-bit color (thank God). Then I could add a module that 'de-dithers' the color.
Relation to Unix
In old Unix these would be filters, something like this:
cat image | ddthr | rfmt -png > icon
Now I find myself using PhotoShop or GraphicConverter for finding & changing one color in an image. I'm still looking, and now becoming inclined to start programming again (which was always a mistake in the past).
Problems with Programming
Programming, I've avoided for two reasons: (1) two decades ago, I realized I had learned nearly a dozen text editors until I decided to use solely the platform-independent 'emacs'; and (2) I discovered it took me well over 6 months to master any programming language (more for a word processor), yet less than 6 weeks to forget it completely. (In the distant past, it was wise to choose one's language to match the project.)
Macs
However, I switched from Unix to Mac so I wouldn't have to think about computing any longer. Macs had always been built for such people as I, they are beautiful, and they can maintain themselves (or, a networked one can be set-up to do so).
APL
My preferred language is the APL variant 'J', which I use daily to test hypotheses, as I think about my research. Such a language, by the way, is great for pre-school children who can't read words yet. (Whether they'll ever be able to punctuate English correctly is another matter.)
http://www.jsoftware.com
Need for another Language
However, I need eventually to convert my scientific algorithms to run in a Linux shell, using Linux's operators (such as 'filter' or 'tee') to combine the little modules.
I'm now considering (re-)learning the platform-independent 'Java' language, and developing applications on Sourceforge. This way, scientific (ie. free) calculations could be integrated into online scientific papers and placed on other websites as well.

Kappy,
Sorry, I thought the question would be a common one confronting casual programmers. With such a variety of popular languages, there is likely no simple answer. I rescind the question with an apology and shall investigate my own problem myself. Sorry.
The question was, being tired of using the wrong but kindly written MacOSX applications, is there a programming language I can learn now that will also serve me in the future?
1. Now I need to write, for example, the program described to process photographic images, whose structures are arrays of arrays. Is there a language with such structures less bloated than C++?
2. Old APL an object-orented language designed for quickly writing algorithms for exactly these structures (the common structures in engineering, science, and mathematics).
3. Is there an object-oriented language for such structures, also used to write MacOSX applications, that one can learn to correctly build applications in 6 months (rather than 6 years)? This means strong typing, static type checking, automatic memory management, &c. An 'interpreter' as well would be nice!
4. For science, it must be a high-level, very portable but standard language that can be compiled into (say) byte code for a standard virtual machine that is on all computers. For image processing on my own little Mac, it needs to be compiled all the way to Altvec-optimized machine code.
5. Is there now such a beast? One that can be hooked at a low level with libraries (written in C or C++), and hooked at a high level to an OOUI (Aqua, in particular)?
Sorry, I expected an engineer to say:-
'Sure, MacOSX's compiler is based on the GCC, which contains a compiler for Java. It hooks at many levels. We use it to send code to afilliates around the Globe; and even Windows users haven't complained.
'Several lexical analyzers have even been written (in C) for Java: so you can parse your spam as well!'
But I don't know the above to be true.
I was looking for reasons why Java might not be the better of the GCC languages for 'amateur programming'. I'm sorry I 'passed the buck', when I shouldn't have. This footwork I'll do myself after I can again install /Developer.
Things I expect to be common problems never are.
Thanks anyway.
Bruce

What should I learn next?

So I already know Python. I decided to learn Python because I heard it was a good language to start out with. I've got a good grasp of the language and have been making various scripts for my personal needs. I've become interested in other languages and have wondered what I should learn next. So should I learn another language or continue exercising my hacker skills with Python? I want to learn a wide variety of types of programming.

ArchArael wrote:Learning new programming languages is fun but I think it's better if you develop something.
Much more better would be some bug fixing or helping some existing projects.
You can always learn new languages when you need to and save your time for something more useful (girl friend, friends, books, games, music etc).
Learning programming languages just to learn keeps you from doing practice in programming.
Mastering something takes time and practice, as someone told you before.
I don't think so. Programming takes time and practice, sure, but it also takes reading code and reading about programming. You can't give a pen and paper to a kid and say "here, write me a book" and spect this kid will write a masterpiece if she hadn't read a lot before.
Learning a new language gives you insights of how programming works, even on different languages. Both you and I aren't native speakers of English, but learning it changed the way I see somethings in Portuguese and vice versa; I have a different understanding of English and Portuguese that I would have if I've learnt only one of them, I belive this applies to you, too. This also works with programming languages: the way I program in C was different before I grasped some Lisp, and it would probably be different if I hadn't learnt Python, and so on.
Back on-topic, I'd recommend learning C, so you can grasp some of the basics: pointers, memory allocation, structs and unions, etc. Later, I'd suggest you to learn a language that makes you think about programming in a different way: Lisp or Haskell. Shell script is also nice, but I'd only use it to "glue" things together, and I don't see a problem with learning it concurrently with another language.
Edit:
Edit: Forgot to add this,
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/programming.php
now say goodbye to all your free time and go learn 6 or 7 languages.
Indeed, very good site. I like the Mathematics "folder", too.
Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2009-07-29 14:28:59)

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