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DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:43 pm
by Software_Pyrate
Having never been to collage or lacking any formal schooling in coding; Dreamweaver has been a big help these last couple years. It really helped me get interested in web design and coding.

However...This past year I have been doing more and more intricate scripts that go outside the boundries of my old friend DW. I am not a master programmer by any means; just saying that I have been learning more hand coding lately and learning how to actually do it my self...for instance, shopping carts .
Yes I know...I could actually $$BUY$$ an extension for DW,But I Hate not knowing what DW code has been cranking out...and besides...As the name implies, I don't $$$ software. :twisted:

Seriously though, I find it much more satisfying knowing what the code is actually doing.
And the thing that got me lately...DW uses session() for logins and if you want to use cookies and try to modify the DW's code...its a big head ache; because(in my situation)templates, mod-ing sql queries, and what not.

My point is this:

If I would have hand coded most of my most recent site my self..it would have saved me a big head ache in the end. I think I'm gonna try and just do more of it my self instead of relying on DW so much. Goodbye one button SQL queries and snippets.


By the way, I am a new mem and enjoying it.

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:27 pm
by Benjamin
First, you may want to read the forum rules:
Forum Rules wrote:Warez, copyright violation, or promotion of any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed or posted in any form.
Second, I don't know a single programmer who uses a WYSIWYG editor to write PHP code for them. In fact, I'm not even sure DW is good at it's primary purpose, generating XHTML/CSS.

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 9:28 am
by alex.barylski
Most professional developers will use Enterprise level IDE's

I personally switched to Eclipse a little over a year ago and love it's extensions, etc. Although it's slow and occassionally buggy it's still quite awesome.

Cheers,
Alex

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 1:33 pm
by Benjamin
It's also.. wait for it.. FREE!

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:09 am
by malcolmboston
dreamweaver......... :banghead: notepad++ all the way, its all you need imo.

Id love to use ZDE more but since its moved onto the eclipse platform its a buggy, unresponsive, convoluted mess (for me anyway)

I so wish they would being back the old ZDE before it moved over to eclipse, that was an excellent development environment

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:06 am
by markusn00b
There was once a time when I used DreamWeaver and I got so frustrated with it that I actually preferred plain old Notepad. Yeah. Crazy, huh?

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 4:11 am
by social_experiment
Software_Pyrate wrote:If I would have hand coded most of my most recent site my self..it would have saved me a big head ache in the end.
I use Dreamweaver CS3 and works perfectly for 'hand-coded' purposes. If you are doing most of your coding 'by hand' (not using the features built into dreamweaver) why use or attempt to use these features at all?

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:29 pm
by John Cartwright
social_experiment wrote:
Software_Pyrate wrote:If I would have hand coded most of my most recent site my self..it would have saved me a big head ache in the end.
I use Dreamweaver CS3 and works perfectly for 'hand-coded' purposes. If you are doing most of your coding 'by hand' (not using the features built into dreamweaver) why use or attempt to use these features at all?
I use Dreamweaver CS3 as well, mostly because of the aesthetics of both the interface, and the code. I prefer to keep the IDE's responsibility as a plain text editor.

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:30 pm
by flying_circus
I used to use dreamweaver, but it didnt have a debugger (atleast, as of a few years ago). I've switched to NuSphere PhpEd and I'm not looking back. PhPEd, and maybe this is new to me because I havent really tried a plethora of IDE's, has a built in debugger and profiler. I can live without all the other bells and whistles though, like database client, nuSoap client, etc.

The Debugger is a bit of a PITA to set up initially, but once you're dialed in, it seems to work pretty well.

Re: DREAMWEAVER....just ain't enough anymore.

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:58 pm
by greyhoundcode
flying_circus wrote:I've switched to NuSphere PhpEd and I'm not looking back.
+1