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Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/10/57 11:49
Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
> Dreamwaver is a nice editor for beginners,
If beginners begin with Dreamweaver then they'll find it very difficult
to learn to do things properly.
DW perpetuates two huge myths:
- HTML is hard
- HTML needs expensive tools.
Neither of these has any justification.
Dramweaver is a poor tool. It teaches lots iof mis-truths, it
encourages poor coding and it discourages good CSS use. It's often
advocated as "a powerful tool for commercial use on short timescales",
which might have had some justification for 3.2 <table> code in the
last century, but is no longer the case.
It's also advocated that "poor naive little users" _need_ the
hand-holding of Dreamweaver because their little heads will explode if
we ask them to work in a smarter manner, even though this is admittedly
a little more thought. I'd suggest (having personally taught
"community access web design courses") that they need the cash they
would have wasted on buying it a lot more!
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