Jo,

I heard enough good things about it, that I just bought DreamWeaver (didn't
even mess around with the download version).

Just scratched the surface on its capabilities, but Have notice one
particular impressive charactaristic: opening an HTML page in DW and saving
it back out is tantamount to running the HTML through a validator!
Accidentally omitted closing tags will be inserted, almost always in the
correct position, as well.

It doesn't seem to observe tabbed indenting conventions, but that's a minor
detail consideraing all that it does do.

It also took me a while to figure out a cross-browser solution to making
the frame borders invisible, which, in an HTML editor, is a piece of cake.

Must needs explore this tool futher.


At 11:56 AM 3/5/98 +0000, Jo Butt wrote:
>Hello all,
>When I have had time I've been checking out some of the different 
>wysiwyg web editors. As a very visually orientated person, with a 
>graphic design background, I really don't like to write pages from 
>scratch in html. I have enough understanding of HTML to read a page 
>of it, suss out problems and alter things using the code, but I 
>initially like to design 'visually'.
>
>I have tried a few of the others including Frontpage but they all 
>seem to take your code and mess, add and change the layout of the 
>HTML. I have just downloaded the trial version of Macromedia's 
>Dreamweaver, and from the reviews it looks great. In the Mm site it 
>shows comparrison with other wysiwyg editors and it seems to be one 
>of the only one's  that doesn't change the HTML.
>Has anyone else used it, and what do they think to it for design 
>purposes?
>
>Also I have just downloaded the trial versions of PiCoBello 2.4 and 
>WebGraphics Optimizer Express 2.0 which are image compression 
>utilities. I have used Gif Wizard online, which I really liked but 
>the college I work for would be happier to buy me a desktop utility 
>rather than pay for the tokens online at Gif Wizard.
>Has anyone used either of these and do they have any opinions on 
>these or other compression utilities?
>
>Cheers me dears
>Jo Butt
>Web Design, research and training
>Bradford and Ilkley College
>UK
> 
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