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EW / DW technical explantion please?


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Greetings all,

I'm currently building our new website for our company (were a some builders in london) and things are going well i've done all my design in photoshop, sliced it up. made a really nice looking site. I've decided to save time i'll use Dreamweaver CS5. Now this is where the problem starts.

I've used it, understand most of it.

I've got a grasp of CSS, and HTML, but when I use DW it tends to break the table layout when applying CSS to text. Now where my problem lies is the fact that i've used Expression Web before, and have been using this without issue (other than Firefox not centering my table when IE will) now if I use DW it will center, but I end up breaking the tables with CSS, so far out weighs the centering problem i can fix myself.

In a round abour way i'm asking is there any reason I should use Dreamweaver, when Expression Web seems to do a better job? I can correct the centering problem myself, so using Expression Web isn't an issue. But people talk about Dream Weaver like it is the bee's knee's, frankly so far i've found it to be a half arsed program, which makes even simple tasks difficult and time consuming. So i'm failing to see reason to use it. However with such buzz around it I feel I should get insight into what I may be ignoring.

So if someone can give me a constructive conclusion, or even a small comparison would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Luke.

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If the rest of the world says DW is amazing - but you disagree and prefer something else, use that something else.

Personally, I don't use either of those programs - I just use Netbeans. It's not a WYSIWYG editor though, so it might not be what you want. I don't generally get along with WYSIWYG editors...I never feel like they can do quite what I want.

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you're always going to have problems with WYSIWYG. they'll break different things differently. if you want to make something properly, code it yourself.

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I always look at the code and if I see nothing wrong with it I look at it on all browsers and cross-check then edit the code if there's anything wrong.

I think the WYSIWYG editor is more of having the "gist" of what your page looks rather than a reliable way to code your website.

WYSIWYG editors usually have a bias to certain browsers and look fine while others will break.

If you're having troubles with the way your page looks I would look into Box Model 1 or Box Model 2

Once you understand things like that you won't have to look at WYSIWYG editors ever again.

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This is perhaps a more constructive bit of advice!

You appear to grasp some fundamentals, but your inexperience is holding you back.

Tables should only be used for tabular data, not for structuring the entire site. Instead use DIVs and style with CSS.

I suggest you head over to Lynda.com and take advantage of their 1 weeks trial, and absolutely watch to death all the ?DW CS5 essential training? videos. I did and let me tell you, its VERY VERY good. You?ll be proficient in1 week?guaranteed

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