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Posted by Kevin Scholl on 11/29/41 11:36
Ed Jay wrote:
> Kevin Scholl <kscholl@comcast.DELETE.net> wrote:
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>>Ed Jay wrote:
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>>>You don't want to use Dreamweaver or Frontpage. They really mung up code.
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>>Not in the case of Dreamweaver, if you set it up properly. A few minutes
>>in the Preferences, and Dreamweaver can generate (X)HTML code as clean
>>as if manually coded.
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> Hmmm... I used to use Homesite 4.n which had an edit mode, browse mode and
> "design mode." Although, the design mode was only a view mode with table
> borders turned on, etc. It wasn't a design mode at all. Are you suggesting
> that by tweaking some preferences, I can use DW in the same way? IOW, I
> can manually edit and peak at the basic design without changing any of my
> own coding?
Indeed. The Preferences in DW really offer a lot of options to tweak how
it generates code and operates in general. It's possible to completely
shut off auto-formatting if you so desire (so that DW does absolutely
nothing to raw code), though the better option, IMO, is to set it upto
mimic as you'd code.
I tend to spend the majority of my time in code view, with occasional
checks in design view (never, ever Layout mode). As I mentioned, I set
it up to best mimic how I'd hand code, then liberally use the Apply
Source Formatting command as I work. This will help align blocks of code
and start/end tags to keep everything neat.
The important thing to remember, though, is that Dreamweaver, and indeed
any other generator, are tools. And like any tool, they are only as good
as the operator and his/her knowledge.
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