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MadMax · 2004-11-23, 09:08 AM

I started out of the gate with Dreamweaver 2.0, and the most difficult thing about "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get) editors like Dreamweaver is that what you see isn't exactly what you get...especially when using things like CSS. You've got to teach your brain to translate what you see on the DW editing page into what the page will actually look like, and preview A LOT. I think you can easily start out with dreamweaver, but it can be frustrating since you need a decent amount of familiarity with the program to use it effectively. I do everything in DW with the "design and code" view so I get instant previews of my code, so I hand code some and use DW for creating tables, inserting images, etc. becasue it saves me time avoiding hand coding image paths, etc.

The biggest thing is not to get frustrated. Your first few pages will look like shit...deal with it. Everyone's first few pages looked like shit. You've just got to jump in and keep trying, and all the advice in this thread has been good advice. I've learned a lot from Webmonkey.

2004-11-23, 09:08 AM	#13
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	I started out of the gate with Dreamweaver 2.0, and the most difficult thing about "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get) editors like Dreamweaver is that what you see isn't exactly what you get...especially when using things like CSS. You've got to teach your brain to translate what you see on the DW editing page into what the page will actually look like, and preview A LOT. I think you can easily start out with dreamweaver, but it can be frustrating since you need a decent amount of familiarity with the program to use it effectively. I do everything in DW with the "design and code" view so I get instant previews of my code, so I hand code some and use DW for creating tables, inserting images, etc. becasue it saves me time avoiding hand coding image paths, etc. The biggest thing is not to get frustrated. Your first few pages will look like shit...deal with it. Everyone's first few pages looked like shit. You've just got to jump in and keep trying, and all the advice in this thread has been good advice. I've learned a lot from Webmonkey.