Thanks for all your input folks.
I got away from Front Page a long time ago and created a site with
WebEasy Pro 8. It's wysiwyg, html + css. WE suggests keeping a site
under 1000 pages, mine is less than 50. I make small changes and
additions, almost daily. I added Jalbum and have a paypal business
account so I have sidestepped a need to have a built in shopping cart.
Paypal has worked out fine, their fees are the same or less than bank
processing fees on mc/visa. Saturday, a new customer in Japan ordered
$700 in repair parts (!!). Made my day. WebEasy has it's problems, my
recent thoughts of redoing the site with another program came about when
WE dropped 2 pages and scrambled the internal links. I was able to fix
that but the thought of re-doing the site completely with another
program leaves me queasy.
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John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
Olympus OM Service since 1977
Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
On 1/7/2011 1:41 PM, Jeff Keller wrote:
> Microsoft abandoned Front Page several years ago. They have something new
> called Expression Web. I've only used Dreamweaver for several years now.
> Expression web seems to be regarded as competent but MS centric.
>
> Probably the real key to picking a web authoring/editing program is to first
> pick a technology: html + css, php + mysql, wordpress, drupal, etc.
>
> The second thing is to make a realistic estimate of how big your website
> will be and if there are any special needs such as shopping carts, forums,
> etc.
>
> If your website is small say< 100 pages, html + css is probably the best
> code-your-own choice since the learning curve is shorter. A CMS choice
> (wordpress, drupal) would also be good.
>
> For html + css, Dreamweaver can speed coding up but may not add a lot of
> value for a infrequent user. The design view has gotten weaker and weaker at
> correctly displaying a web page. It only takes one click on the toolbar to
> pop the page up in a web browser but you could also leave a web browser open
> with the page loaded and would only need a single click to refresh the view.
> Dreamweaver is fairly good at supporting various technologies. There is a
> live view button which will feed data from a database etc enabling the whole
> process to be debugged (mostly) in Dreamweaver.
>
> If you want to have a large on-line store that you don't want to be spending
> a lot of time creating web pages for then a database driven website would be
> better. Looking at the various CMS offerings might locate something you
> would be happy with. The biggest problem with the CMS offerings is the last
> 100 yards. You might invest a lot of time learning the system, building your
> web site, only to find you can't go the last 100 yards. You should also
> assume that you will want to get help from forum members etc to go from 75%
> to the last 100 yards. You could probably integrate any existing pages you
> have into a CMS website if you were willing to change their look to be more
> consistent with the CMS pages.
>
> If you pick a CMS, then you may well find that Dreamweaver is even less
> helpful. If you are already committed to writing your own html, getting
> proficient with Dreamweaver would be like learning to use a complicated
> power tool to make a daily task quicker. If you intend to keep your web site
> small and aren't wanting to spend a lot of time updating your web,
> Dreamweaver might not be worth the cost.
>
> A text editor which displays color coded keywords and helps automate code
> formatting could be quicker and easier for occasional html coding.
>
> Good luck,
> Jeff Keller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hermanson [mailto:omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [OM] Dreamweaver
>
> Is Dreamweaver still considered the top choice in website creation? I'm
> looking for a serious program and wonder what others recommend.
>
> ___________________________________
> John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
> 631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
> Olympus OM Service since 1977
> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>
>
>
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