Is GoLive as good as or better that Dreamweaver. ?

Liam · 02-08-2005, 11:23 PM

hi everyone.
i was just wondering if Adobe Golive is as good as dreamweaver for WYSIWYG and layout. Im also asuming in integrates well whith the rest of the Creative Suite (CS). I havent used dreamweaver for a long time, and rather than getting used to dreamweaver again i was wondering if GoLive would be a good move. The reason i am asking is that we have just finnished the Indesign tutorials in GD class and I life the way you can use smart guides to create a solid page layout. Does GoLive offer such features? Just let me know thx

And obviosly Flash is still by far the best for amimated page content right ?
any info, advice would be appreciated

[... LIAM ...]

Ryan8720 · 02-09-2005, 03:18 AM

They both suck.

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**PrintDriver** · 02-09-2005, 04:31 AM

Spoken like a true coder Ryan. LOL!

Liam, Dreamweaver is better than GoLive but if you are gonna do web design for real, learn to code.

PD is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

Akewz · 02-09-2005, 07:50 AM

Yeah, Dreamweaver is better than Golive, especially if you're going to intergrate Flash elements, since all of the Macromedia products work well together.
And no, Dreamweaver doesn't suck... In the hands of an experienced user a lot of nice things can be done with it. I personally don't use it since I do everything in Flash.
I would rather go to a nice looking functional site that was built in Dreamweaver, then to some 'hand coded' site that looked like ass and functioned about the same.

Still, I agree that it is important to learn how to hand code.
It'll make you a stronger web developer. If you're mainly a designer, then there's nothing wrong with strictly using Dreamweaver, or something eqivalent.

Post Edited (Akewz) : 2/9/2005 2:53:38 AM GMT

Liam · 02-09-2005, 10:36 AM

i know html, DUH!, lol
i just prefer WYSIWYG becuase it speeds things up, i usually go back and edit the 'junk' code that is added my the software

i think i will stick w/ dreamweaver then, oh and dreamweaver is very good for coding even, because you can creat server pages and everything, it also highligts the tags to make them easier to find. i dont like the programing side of html, but i of couse know the basix if html but i agree w/ Akewz, but lets not turn this in to another argument. lol
the question was awansered Dreaweaver Wins, for WYSIWYG {{AND}} CODING ;p
ok, thx ,
ttyl

LIAM

Liam · 02-09-2005, 10:37 AM

PS. Flash is better than any HTML

MACREMEDIA FLASH RULZ

GO FLASH FANS!!!

ps, i use a lot of flash

LIAM

Ulysses · 02-09-2005, 12:46 PM

You'll find that no WYSIWYG software can properly generate/display/manage CSS or XHTML or DHTML code. Hell ... they can't even display javascript .write content ... and as for Flash/PHP etc ... forget it. The web is dynamic, the future is dynamic, and no seriously dynamic content can be built visually (then again you probably know that already, creating and duplicating movieclips, functions etc, with just actionscript).

If you can already use dreamweaver though, then just stick with it ... waste of time learning another program, if it basically has the same features available to you. You're better off spending that time, polishing your coding skills, and learning new techniques.

defjoe · 02-09-2005, 02:32 PM

there about the same to me. it's preference really.

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02-09-2005, 06:37 PM

I just want to ad that as amazing as flash is it can't be the all in one application for web. We still need xhtml and CSS and good designers know that using a combination of all technologies is the best way to go.

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Akewz · 02-09-2005, 07:47 PM

Quote:

benjo... said...
I just want to ad that as amazing as flash is it can't be the all in one application for web. We still need xhtml and CSS and good designers know that using a combination of all technologies is the best way to go.

Actually, you can use CSS in Flash.(MX 2004)
Styles for Flash can be loaded from an external CSS file or created in Flash itself using Actionscript.