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.
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.
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.
eric
http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/#dw_extension
>
> Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people chose
> Joomla
> because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an advanced user like
> yourself
> this extension will probably not be helpful. The question is could it
> pull
> the next level of design talent towards Drupal?
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:
>
> > Further up in the thread I alluded to the idea that many people
> > chose Joomla because it had a Dreamweaver extension. For an
> > advanced user like yourself this extension will probably not be
> > helpful. The question is could it pull the next level of design
> > talent towards Drupal?
>
>
> I largely agree with Laura (that Dreamweaver is useless), but there
> is non-trivial learning curve for dealing with phptemplate, and
> creating a drupal theme. If work towards this extension would
> flatten that learning curve I think it's a positive step. Needing a
> button to insert <?php print $primary_links ?> into your template,
> and knowing that $primary_links even exists are separate issues. I'm
> much more interested in solving the latter ;)
>
> blake hall
>
>
>
