A Dreamweaver extension could serve the purpose of luring people in the right direction. I was the typical designer who started out with the Dreamweaver crutch before I discovered the joys of xhtml/css . Most people that use Dreamweaver use it because they don't know any better and you can't really change that until they sink their teeth into a project and find out that it is really holding them back.
<br><br>I explored Mambo/Joomla! before Drupal back in the day because it did have a Dreamweaver extension and that made me feel like I was on familiar ground. I've seen other designers do the same for similar reasons. In the end the extension would not be that useful but I see valuable PR opportunity.
<br><br>The perceived value of the extension would be transferring the wysiwyg power of Dreamweaver to Drupal theming but the true value would be it's role as a a helper tool/ or visual quick-start to visually understand the components of what makes a theme in Drupal.
<br><br>eric<br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/#dw_extension">http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/#dw_extension
</a><br><br>Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people chose Joomla<br>because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an advanced user like yourself<br>this extension will probably not be helpful. The question is could it pull
<br>the next level of design talent towards Drupal?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kieran<br><br><br>On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:<br><br>> Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people<br>> chose Joomla because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an
<br>> advanced user like yourself this extension will probably not be<br>> helpful. The question is could it pull the next level of design<br>> talent towards Drupal?<br><br><br>I largely agree with Laura (that Dreamweaver is useless), but there
<br>is non-trivial learning curve for dealing with phptemplate, and<br>creating a drupal theme. If work towards this extension would<br>flatten that learning curve I think it's a positive step. Needing a<br>button to insert <?php print $primary_links ?> into your template,
<br>and knowing that $primary_links even exists are separate issues. I'm<br>much more interested in solving the latter ;)<br><br>blake hall<br><br><br></blockquote></div>