The
Battle Of Dreamweaver Vs. Text Editor
Even
today, a lot of people still thought of using Dreamweaver for web
design is just for beginners. The reason for that statement is
because XHTML or CSS codes are being generated automatically by
Dreamweaver’s code view. And to be fair, Dreamweaver do provide
this simplicity. However, in the name of time efficiency, it would be
careless not to use this simplicity to web designing benefit. In
reality, it’s not the usage of Dreamweaver that determine whether a
web designer can be categorized as ‘big boy’ or a ‘newbie’;
but rather the understanding of standard-compliant HTML/CSS, code
writing ability and consideration of using the right tool for the
right purpose that counts. There are some benefit any web designer
can take advantage of from using Dreamweaver.
Coding
Simplification
As
stated before, using Dreamweaver as web tool is equal to
simplification of code writing. And code simplification provides
benefit for web designer such as:
- Dreamweaver provides feature that recognizes any mistake that are made when writing codes. This will save web designer a lot of frustrating time to correct a misspelling in a long code that has been written.
- Loading time for website will be significantly reduced because no unnecessary coding is needed to do a simple editing in text.
- Dreamweaver is also a choice for beginner or people who aren’t really fond of coding. And this fact shouldn’t be a joke for the ‘big boys’, because at some point in the past, they are also a beginner striving to gain more experience by taking a web design project.
File
Management
File
management system is another reason to start using Dreamweaver. Great
file management provided through CSS or Cascading Style Sheet makes
it easier to when an editing involves large volume of page. Web
designer tends to lost a page during this period and spend a lot of
time just to search the desired page. Dreamweaver also provide
preview option that allows web designer to keep track of how the
changes being made are taking effect, and thus deciding whether
another change is needed. Also, a web designer can change from code
view to design view with a single click. Compare this process to text
editor which requires opening new window to actually see what’s
going on and imagine the time saved by using Dreamweaver.
Layout
Tools
This
is another advantage of using Dreamweaver. This program provides
useful and easy to use layout tools as a feature. Layout tool in
Dreamweaver allows web designer to plan and execute the placement of
navigation, menus, pictures and many others within the web page. For
example, to put a ‘submit’ or ‘next’ button within a page, a
web designer only need to click on insert, choose form object, and
then image field. The submit button is already presented there, all
the web designer have to do is choose the ones they preferred, click
it, and; just like being said earlier about coding, the code is
already written down.
FTP
Upload Becomes A Lot Easier
Every
web designer that are familiar with using Dreamweaver as their web
tool will tell you about the FTP upload feature this software has.
The File Transfer Protocol already being built within the program
allows web designers to upload many files to their website easily.
There is even keyboard shortcuts that web designer can use to
simplify the matter even more. This is enables because FTP clients in
Dreamweaver also mirrors local and remote copy a site’s file which
makes easier use compared to conventional uploading files to server.
Drag
And Drop Is Enabled
Often
times, a web designing get so time consuming that a web designer
wishes that he could just drag and drop a database result set into
datagrid on a webpage. Well, using Dreamweaver this function is
actually enabled. This feature will come handy especially if a web
designer is trying to avoid miscoding over a long code or just forget
how the code goes and don’t have time to find out. Of course hand
writing the code is easy and most advanced designer would know how,
but why waste time on things when you can do it automatically. It’s
just not time efficient.
Tutorial
Feature
Here’s
the best thing any beginner web designer would love about using
Dreamweaver. There is a tutorial on how to create a website using Dreamweaver CS6. And the tutorial is very detailed too. It will make
a beginner with no real experience on designing actual website a
winner. There is no shame in looking at tutorial, and if it gets the
job done quicker, even experienced web designer can benefit from the
tutorial feature. Compare this to many other HTML web editors that
will require the designer to open book or go online whenever he or
she forgets something.
To
round things up, the proper knowledge over standard-compliant HTML
combined with the simplicity of using Dreamweaver can bring
simplicity to web designing job, which resulted in better design
delivered faster.
