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A question about Dreamweaver?
I want to get training in Dreamweaver. Currently in my job I use Dreamweaver to simply edit pages now again so my knowledge of the software is very basic (and so is my boss’s). We have an external web guy who deals with most of the website stuff, but none the less I would still like to get more advanced training. Would it be better to go on one of those 1 or 2 day training courses, or would it better to do a training course with one of those Home Learning Colleges where the course is carried out over several months.
Just go to the support pages on adobe, they tell you how to do lots of stuff. I always go there when I’m stuck. They also have forums with lots of helpful people, I always get my questions answered (correctly too).
~ thumbs down me? booo. comment below is good, telling you to just learn the code and not worry about dreamweaver. I write my own code and don’t let dreamweaver generate it for me. I only really use it for the ftp. And you can get free ones of those anyway.
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May 15th, 2010 at 4:35 am
we use dreamweaver and many other programs, i personally prefer it if my employees figure the programs out themselves using the courses it comes with and the internet, it makes for resourceful people and also you tend to remember how processes work if you struggle a bit.
References :
http://www.fdesign.co.za
May 15th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Just go to the support pages on adobe, they tell you how to do lots of stuff. I always go there when I’m stuck. They also have forums with lots of helpful people, I always get my questions answered (correctly too).
~ thumbs down me? booo. comment below is good, telling you to just learn the code and not worry about dreamweaver. I write my own code and don’t let dreamweaver generate it for me. I only really use it for the http://ftp. And you can get free ones of those anyway.
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May 15th, 2010 at 6:09 am
lol for the advanced stuff a crash course can be done, as if u’ve already started experimenting on ur own u can get the tutor there to answer any queries lol also i know we can be a weird bunch but ask the web guy if u wanna know something
Books are also a good source of knowledge as long as it’s thorough an has examples, hell even go online an get a few ebooks if u want
also if u didn’t know this already dreamweaver is one big text editor / renderer
just takes code an pretties it up, i’ve designed sites with notepad although wasn’t pleasant
the GUI interface won’t be that hard to learn as ive used dreamweaver since macromedia owned it an it hasn’t changed that much, or if it has i don’t bother with any of the new features.
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May 15th, 2010 at 6:17 am
Rather than learning more about Dreamweaver, I think you should focus on the underlying problem it helps you to solve: building HTML / XHTML pages with CSS layout. If you can understand the code Dreamweaver produces (which isn’t any harder than learning advanced Dreamweaver) you’ll be able to handle the many cases where Dreamweaver produces inefficient or ugly code.
In the long run, this will help you with Dreamweaver, and it will also prepare you to move beyond it eventually.
I’d probably either get a good book (humble suggestion below) or take a course from the local university. In either case, focus on the underlying technology, not the DreamWeaver wrapper on top of it.
References :
HTML / XHTML / CSS All in One for Dummies (author)
http://www.aharrisbooks.net