[themes] Dreamweaver CS3 Extension for Drupal Themeing

[blake hall]

I've actually seen that mambo extension in use, teaching those who  
were already tied to using dreamweaver.

It basically just inserts the <?php print $random_variable_here ?>  
statements that our *.tpl.php files are littered with.

I'd think the folks in the themer-pack group: http:// 
groups.drupal.org/themer-pack-working-group might be of some  
assistance sine they have a similar goal (minus the dreamweaver  
integration).

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




On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

>
>
> On 8/7/07, Laura Scott <laura at pingv.com> wrote:
>
> Count me as extremely skeptical that Dreamweaver is anything but a  
> web 1.0 tool (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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