Adobe Dreamweaver

[zoko]

Hey im trying to teach myself Adobe dreamweaver atm and theres a fair bit to it, Ne one got a link to some descent vids for beginners through to expert =p

EDIT for Dreamweaver CS3

[chX]

Originally Posted by CAGE

Hey im trying to teach myself Adobe dreamweaver atm and theres a fair bit to it, Ne one got a link to some descent vids for beginners through to expert =p

EDIT for Dreamweaver CS3

Depends what you're doing with it really. Anything web related can be done exactly the same in notepad as it can be in Dreamweaver.

DreamWeaver Tutorials - Search for DreamWeaver Tutorials on Pixel2Life

That site has a few decent tutorials.

[zoko]

Cheers +1 rep

[BooneZ]

Dreamweaver sucks. learn HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript and boot up notepad.

[chX]

Originally Posted by BooneZ

Dreamweaver sucks. learn HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript and boot up notepad.

Yep.

There are a fair few PHP tutorials that I made last year. They're all (or most of them) stickied in this very forum.

If you don't know much about HTML though, I suggest learning that first before even trying something like PHP.

So yeah, I suppose if you're new then Dreamweaver is a good place to start.

[zoko]

Sweet , thanks guys

[BooneZ]

You can learn HTML in a matter of weeks. I learnt it in 3 weeks when I was 10 years old.
/cough bragging cough

[chX]

Originally Posted by BooneZ

You can learn HTML in a matter of weeks. I learnt it in 3 weeks when I was 10 years old.
/cough bragging cough

I was fairly similar. I was basically past HTML and already learning ASP, CGI and PHP within a few weeks of my cousin casually teaching me at his house in the holidays. I also would have been around 9-11 years old.

Yes, HTML is easy to learn. Just make sure you actually understand what the code means rather than just memorizing the code itself.

[ivo]

Do you want to code, or do you want to design?

A) If you want to code, learn [x]html and css. Then a little bit of javascript. Then PHP if you want to make dynamic stuff.

B) If you want to design, get photoshop.

Dreamweaver is where you go after you have done 1 or 2, not where you start.
[If you want to do it properly]

[chX]

Originally Posted by ivo

Do you want to code, or do you want to design?

A) If you want to code, learn [x]html and css. Then a little bit of javascript. Then PHP if you want to make dynamic stuff.

B) If you want to design, get photoshop.

Dreamweaver is where you go after you have done 1 or 2, not where you start.
[If you want to do it properly]

Or do both, like I did.

It's really handy to be a jack of all trades.

[venN]

youtube it. then experiment 24/7

[CoFfeX]

Dreamweaver generates horridly messy and non standards compliant HTML. Avoid it if at all possible.

There are some good text editors out there with syntax highlighting for all the above mentioned technologies.
Notepad++(free and good) Ultraedit(not free but good) and Vim(free but only if you are brave) come to mind.

Trying to make all the pages you create XHTML strict will make your life alot simpler from a styling standpoint. You won't have to deal with as many browser rendering quirks in ie/ff/opera etc

[Khaless]

CAGE, just to point out, like Coffex, I am not a fan of Dreamweaver. By all means if it does what you need, use it but I actually find it counter-productive. I myself use VIM, although I have it configured in very specific ways and I would not recommend it to you.

Notepad++ is a good option. It will give you syntax highlighting indenting and some other features that are exceptionally handy. Please try to stay away from notepad, it doesnt make life any fun Also, I would highly recommend you check out source control if you are working on a project (check out Subversion or Mercurial).

Lastly if you are going to be doing some JavaScript, build what you need using a library as the basis, you will learn a lot of cool stuff and it will really speed up your development.

I recommend jQuery mainly but also Prototype, (some others are mootools, Mochikit, dojo, extjs, sproutcore). Understand these frameworks all have different aims, I suspect for you you will want jQuery or Prototype.

[CoFfeX]

I'd also recommend Firebug - Web Development Evolved
It's a huge time saver. You can **** with styles without having to reload the page. As well as a bucket load of other features

[`conviction]

dreamweaver is the standard program for professional web designers so it can't be as bad as what you say it is. besides you can just go into codeview and put in your code there. But if you wanna learn code and design get photoshopCS3 and simply use notepad but i'm guessing that you've already bought dreamweaver so use that I guess. It would seem though that Khaless knows more about it than I do

[lazyboi`]

lol i recommend you look on YouTube bcoz i only use Dreamweaver for certain things XD i mainly use FrontPage !!!!!

[Khaless]

Originally Posted by `conviction

dreamweaver is the standard program for professional web designers

Hmm for some. I have seen designers use it with little conviction to the HTML code.
There are a couple of work flows. One which I have used is:

Illustrator Mockup + Cuts from designer -> Web Site Front End Developer (a guru with HTML/CSS etc.) + works with Backed Developer (They could be the same person).

[`conviction]

well you know more than me about it so yeah

lazyboi hahahha

[Caprock]

Originally Posted by lazyboi

lol i recommend you look on YouTube bcoz i only use Dreamweaver for certain things XD i mainly use FrontPage !!!!!

FrontPage ? I dare say that is worse.

[lachman000]

front page makes me gag. notepad!

[Peuk2]

rofl