[themes] Dreamweaver Cheese

[sherifmayika]

drupal now have a dreamweaver extension,
sceenshot can be viewed here
dreamweaverdrupalthemeextension.blogspot.com



ericelbow wrote:
> 
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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