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Originally Posted by VegasMack
We all know that the two most popular WYSIWYG Editors are DreamWeaver and FrontPage.
I have noted some pretty substantial improvements by Microsoft with their latest version of FrontPage but haven’t seen that much from DreamWeaver.
Has anyone else noticed this, and do you know of another WYSIWYG Editor that you think competes with the Top 2 Editors?
~VegasMack
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VegasMack, my own personal experience is that people often bag on Dreamweaver because it has IDE features that go way beyond the simple editor features in FrontPage and they dont understand them. Then I see people bag on FrontPage because the markup is real bad and the features appeal so much to newbe types because it came with their MS Office Suite and it has some template generators in it.
So all the pro's (at least all those that are honestly pro's) know to use professional IDE environments over page generators like FP. Is FP bad? No, I wouldn't call it bad but I'd never use it because as always anything developed by Microsoft is designed to benefit Microsofts mind set and way of thinking.
Dreamweaver along with things like GoLive for instance have IDE features (IDE = Integrated Development Environment) in which the ease it can communicate with things like Databases and then show real time results in a way that makes sense to both Developers and Designers sets them apart. Previously, or maybe currently, designers and developers speak different languages, but Dreamweaver opens a foundation of common ground for understanding each other.
Dreamweaver also has real nice extensions available for it that extend Dreamweaver in unique directions. KPT and others have developed full blown shopping cart extensions that make ecommerce site creation an afternoon event instead of a months long one.
My money says use Dreamweaver......
Just my 2 /cents
Jared