Re: Website creating software

[Joost De Cock <joost.decock@astrid.be>]

On Monday 07 June 2004 17:36, Nick Smith hurled the following on the wire:
> Joost De Cock said:
> > On Monday 07 June 2004 15:31, jack kinnon hurled the following on the
> >
> > wire:
> >> Hi
> >>  Thanks for the input. What I am referring to is
> >> something like the MS FrontPage, not just an ordinary
> >> editor.
[...]
> forget frontpage, what about a dreamweaver alternative? i do respect the
> hand coding people out there, i too started coding with VI, but there is
> no way im going to design complex image maps or anything else with lengthy
> code by hand any more, too much chance for error and it takes way too long
> to do it.  i wish wine would pick up the pace and get compatible with MX
> 2004 and for that matter photoshop CS. but i would be happy with just a
> dreamweaver alternative.  which in my search i can find nothing that comes
> close to the power of dreamweaver.

Well, thanks for the respect :) however, I do agree with the 'forget 
frontpage' part, but I don't agree with going the dreamweaver road. I used 
dreamweaver a lot a few years ago, I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I sure 
got past the steep part of the learning curve. It is indeed a very powerfull 
editor, but I think you'll agree (judging by your examples) that it's 
something you want to use when your building a nice looking flashy graphical 
website.
I myself code webapplications in PHP, dynamic pages, database access, 
scripts,... you name it. When doing this sort of work, VI beats dreamweaver 
hands down. First of all, who needs all the bloat, but the better syntax 
highlighting, supreme indentation (a nightmare in Dreamweaver last time I 
checked), speed, and all the nifty shortcutes that make VI what it is just 
make it a nobrainer to go for VI.
Furthermore, if I need a quick change, SSH to the webserver, load VI and 
tadaa.

I guess it boils down to the 'right tool for the job' mantra. I do agree that 
only a graphical artist with a serious CLI twist would use VI for his work on 
websites.

joost


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