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Which is better dreamweaver or Frontpage? 2
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cian
Technical User
- Oct 11, 2001
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Thx for the star ;-)
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Keep posting questions if you need more help. Make sure to test and experiment with problems before posting questions, you will learn more, it will help you ask more precise questions and the guys here will appreciate it more if they see you have put in the effort.
Greatgazzoo
Technical User
I have used Dreamweaver starting with ver 2.0 and front page, hotmetal pro and many others. Depending on what I am trying to accomplish all software packages have good points and bad points. You need to find one you are comfortable with. Once you have used one for awhile try changing to something else. You may find your initial choice doesn't work well with your programming style.
FrontPage is great for starting out. My site is in FP. ( I think Dreamweaver is a better program in the long run and I want to redo my site in DW. But the learning curve for dreamweaver is a little steeper, Frontpage comes with an Image package, DW doesnt.
You DONT have to use templates in FP page as someone suggested you can create your on Pages (and FP doesnt use webbots anymore (catch up)). FP does screw with the code, but if you're code dumb (no offense), it won't matter to you.
But if you've got the time to learn DW, go with that one.
You DONT have to use templates in FP page as someone suggested you can create your on Pages (and FP doesnt use webbots anymore (catch up)). FP does screw with the code, but if you're code dumb (no offense), it won't matter to you.
But if you've got the time to learn DW, go with that one.
Kjonnnn
Your site is a perfect example of the redundant code included by Frontpage.
Hope this helps
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Your site is a perfect example of the redundant code included by Frontpage.
Hope this helps
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
vickero007
IS-IT--Management
How much of a performance issue is redundant code added by FrontPage?
-Volkoff007
-Volkoff007
vickero007
IS-IT--Management
Let me correct that a little. I don't mean redundant code as in duplicate code but rather "extra" code that is there but would be the same if it wasn't. Some closing tags, etc...
-Volkoff007
-Volkoff007
That's not as simple a question as it first appears.
Here're two things to consider performance wise...
1) How large is the file to download
2) How hard is it to process?
To be honest... if you care about performance, make your pages XHTML instead of HTML. In capable browsers that's your best performance. Don't get scared by the X, it's basically HTML with some stricter rules, if you know HTML it'll take you about 5 minutes to learn XHTML.
Those closing HTML tags do in fact make the file a tiny bit larger, but they make the browser work ALOT less to render the page.
FrontPage does annoying other things, like add in bunches and bunches of "formatting code". My favorite, I had three full lines defining font types, colors, sizes etc... to format a . Those things do slow it down.
So basically to answer your question... the performance is hurt significantly by FP, but with DSL and a 1GHz+ processor, you're not really going to notice on 90% of pages.
-Rob
Here're two things to consider performance wise...
1) How large is the file to download
2) How hard is it to process?
To be honest... if you care about performance, make your pages XHTML instead of HTML. In capable browsers that's your best performance. Don't get scared by the X, it's basically HTML with some stricter rules, if you know HTML it'll take you about 5 minutes to learn XHTML.
Those closing HTML tags do in fact make the file a tiny bit larger, but they make the browser work ALOT less to render the page.
FrontPage does annoying other things, like add in bunches and bunches of "formatting code". My favorite, I had three full lines defining font types, colors, sizes etc... to format a . Those things do slow it down.
So basically to answer your question... the performance is hurt significantly by FP, but with DSL and a 1GHz+ processor, you're not really going to notice on 90% of pages.
-Rob
Hi
1. I started validating in This is a very very helpful guidance. Already all my linked pages are all validated, though I do have one problem for which I am starting a separate thread. Thanks Cion.
2. EditPlus is excellent. I started using that and it is very easy. But the auto code generated for the header when I start a blank page is not liked by the validator. I have to introduce one more meta tag for <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">. I just copied it from FP generated one. Not a big issue. If I am going wrong here, some one can point it out to me. Thanks Wullie. A star for you as well.
3. I downloaded the editor from chami.com. But that was after I started using EditPlus. It looks nice to start but will decide on this or editplus soon.
The uploading is not yet done. But once I sort out all errors, I will do it.
Thanks to all those who commented. Cheers.
ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com
1. I started validating in This is a very very helpful guidance. Already all my linked pages are all validated, though I do have one problem for which I am starting a separate thread. Thanks Cion.
2. EditPlus is excellent. I started using that and it is very easy. But the auto code generated for the header when I start a blank page is not liked by the validator. I have to introduce one more meta tag for <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">. I just copied it from FP generated one. Not a big issue. If I am going wrong here, some one can point it out to me. Thanks Wullie. A star for you as well.
3. I downloaded the editor from chami.com. But that was after I started using EditPlus. It looks nice to start but will decide on this or editplus soon.
The uploading is not yet done. But once I sort out all errors, I will do it.
Thanks to all those who commented. Cheers.
ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com
ramani
Go into the directory on your hard drive where you installed Editplus. There will be files named template.html template.pl etc etc. Open the html one and alter it to the base code that you want to start with each time.
Hope this helps
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Go into the directory on your hard drive where you installed Editplus. There will be files named template.html template.pl etc etc. Open the html one and alter it to the base code that you want to start with each time.
Hope this helps
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Another editplus option I like is the lower case html tag option, this is located in Tools > Prefernces and is about halfway down the list of checkable options on the right. Perhaps I have been writing to much xml, or just hate upper case, but that option will make all html tags that editplus generates (template and tags from cliptext window) lowercase.
Someone should write a book explaining all the functionality of editplus, I'm still finsing new things and have been using it a couple years.
-Tarwn
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Someone should write a book explaining all the functionality of editplus, I'm still finsing new things and have been using it a couple years.
-Tarwn
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