Kieran Lal wrote:
Let's see if we can flush out the spec on what the output of Dreaweaver is and how it can become a Drupal theme.
I don't use Dreamweaver these days, but I have it and this sounds interesting. So I just read a bit of the dreamweaver docs.
There are three things which Dreamweaver can do that look useful:
1. Dreamweaver templates It's not too difficult to imagine taking some Drupal theme tpl files and locking down all the important php so that a designer could only edit the html. But not all that flexible, after all to really customize a Drupal theme you need to work with PHP too.
2. Work with PHP and MySQL Dreamweaver can help to build sites using php and mysql, but it takes your php and interacts directly with the database itself - effectively usesless when you have Drupal itself sitting between the tpl files and the db.
3. Work with live data from a server. I get the impression that (at least with Coldfusion, and maybe some of the other Macromedia/Adobe proprietary server side technologies) you can work with live data from a server whilst in 'design' view - no idea how you'd make that work with Drupal though, but I suspect it would require a Drupal module or two.
My current workflow involves Fireworks, BBEdit and CSSEdit2, but Dreamweaver might be useful for prototyping themes and modules, if it could be made to work.