On 8/7/07, Laura Scott laura@pingv.com wrote:
Count me as extremely skeptical that Dreamweaver is anything but a web 1.0tool (my rant on this: http://pingv.com/blog/laura/200703/adobes-creative-suite-for-web-1-0 ), but I'm certainly happy to be proven wrong.
That's a good point. Perhaps dreamweaver is no longer the designers tool of choice. Anyone have market data?
Personally I don't feel that web design requires a wysiwyg application, but
what seems obvious is that many people -- and universities -- are resistant or intimidated by CSS. I started by hand coding in the early '90s before the various web design apps came out, so maybe I'm coming from a different place, but learning CSS fundamentals is not rocket science. I feel the real design happens in the imagination, and photoshop, illustrator, indesign, inkscape, fireworks, etc. All that dreamweaver does is combine the design with some auto-generated mark-up, yes? But if dreamweaver can be leveraged into making decent markup, that could help a lot of people, it seems.
Is there a proof of concept or proposed architecture for such a project?
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
Laura
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