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