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[Robwalker]

Ok, so im fed up with front page, flash looks wayyyyyyy too complicated and i dont want to learn how to use them purely because of the fact that i hate them and have no interest.

Just wondering if there are any other website editing programmes?

[yoyoyo]

Freewebs or Piczo.

Only joking. There is a program called MX Dreamweaver or something. We used it in school for It, you can use code, normally, or both on a splitscreen.

Only problem is it's quite expensive, but i'm sure you can acquire it.

Can't remember who makes it either.

[CBProductions]

It's macromedia ,

I would suggest just reading up on coding that way you understand how,what, where and why. If your not a fan of that then get a trial of Macromedia, Flash doesn't have to be used to create a nice site.

[poopipe]

macromedia (now adobe) make it

it's called dreamweaver MX - its not cheap but it's powerful

the demo's on the website and you can buy it online (by that I mean download a crack) easy enough

it's all right for you kids but real men use vi

[Simon]

MX = old.

Get 8.

Or, get MX, use that for a while, then upgrade to 8 so you can appreciate the immense difference.

But seriously. i've not found anything wrong with Dreamweaver 8 yet. It suggests CSS, highlights invalid code, hell, it even validates. You can collapse and expand code, wrap text, and theres more keyboard shortcuts.

I've never ever used design view, so can't really comment on that, but i'd imagine it to be as good as what i've seen in code view.

Vi/Vim is fine if you want to look cool. Its in-practical and time consuming. Unless you are editing online, then its excellent, but for offline editing, or local editing where you are starting from scratch, or heavily hacking old code, its just a glorified notepad.

[anzo]

How much does it cost Simon?

[Simon]

400 quid near as damn it.

[munkee]

If people are looking for dreamweaver MX... i can supply you a .... *copy* .. MSN required. Also i have photoshop CS2 if thats of any use

Edited July 20, 2006 by Spacemunkee

[CBProductions]

How much does it cost Simon?

haha pwned

[F-Stop Junkie]

haha pwned

Why? There's no suggestion that Simon is or is not using an illegal copy... Therefore you are pwned for incorrect pwnage.

[CBProductions]

Why? There's no suggestion that Simon is or is not using an illegal copy... Therefore you are pwned for incorrect pwnage.

he's just ranted about a £400 program when all the guy is asking is there alternatives to frontpage. How am I talking about illegal copies

Edited July 20, 2006 by CBProductions

[Simon]

he's just ranted about a £400 program when all the guy is asking is there alternatives to frontpage.

Download?

I'm pretty damn sure he wasn't asking because he wasn't intending on buying an alternative...

Not to mention there are no free ware web design utilities like frontpage.

[CBProductions]

Yeah I guess , I just thought he could get a trial of mx or something. maybe my bad :$

[Robwalker]

Well everyone thanks for all your help, i decided to try that trial version on MX and found it better and easier to use than i thought! But a quick question:

If you click on a link, you can get it to come up in a seperate window(i know how to do that) but is there anyway in which you can choose the size of this window ( i want it so its the same as the background image).

Thanks for all your help its much appreacheted

Edited July 20, 2006 by Robwalker

[Greetings]

didn't get you there, sorry

Edited July 20, 2006 by Inur

[Robwalker]

Sorry Alex ill try and make it a bit clearer. You remember CLS site, when you clicked on the shilouete image of him, and then another window came up infront of that, and inside was all the links ect. The bit im getting at is how does he make it so the window appears like that - No address bar and just a background image with links on.

Sorry im getting very confused aswel

[poopipe]

Well everyone thanks for all your help, i decided to try that trial version on MX and found it better and easier to use than i thought! But a quick question:

If you click on a link, you can get it to come up in a seperate window(i know how to do that) but is there anyway in which you can choose the size of this window ( i want it so its the same as the background image).

Thanks for all your help its much appreacheted

the exact code escapes me but yes if you use javascript to open the window you can specify the size as part of the function that opens it - not sure if it's doable as an <a> attribute though.

aha

here for full info

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....hods/open_0.asp

or just edit this

<a onclick=window.open("Sample.htm",null, "height=200,width=400,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");>

Edited July 20, 2006 by poopipe

[Robwalker]

Ok thanks ill have a quick play around.

[Max Quinn]

For anyone who wants a legit version of dreamweaver and is a student you can get a student copy of studio 8 for £70. This includes the newest dreamweaver, flash, fireworks, contribute and flash paper.

Qualification criteria:

Students must be enrolled, full time, in a degree-granting program at an acceptable Education Institution (being a bona fide university or college -- including community, junior and vocational colleges or other further education colleges -- that grants degrees requiring not less than the equivalent of two (2) years of full time study).

Are there any catches to this? Seems incredibly cheap.

Amazon Link

[Dai the Socket]

Nah £80's about right.

I use Dreamweaver 8 and it's pretty good

I use it on split and code modes only really, but from what I see in Split the design mode looks alright. Doesn't read some css stuff ALL the time but they're okay in browsers.