>
> 1. Dreamweaver MX 2004 is not entirely a cheap product.
>
> 2. You cannot obtain HomeSite+ without purchasing Studio MX
> or Dreamweaver MX.
Every time this comes up, I still don't understand it. You can buy
Dreamweaver MX and spend less than you would've to get CF Studio 5 when it
was available, and it comes with Homesite+.
> When providing training for Centrelink (26,000 staff) I was
> embarassed to learn how lame DWMX's SQL tools were compared
> to HS (5.5) or even CF Studio 5.
>
> If MM truly want us to move to DWMX, they are on a good start
> with the updater, but a really cool integrated SQL Builder
> would put the icing on the cake.
Yes, I agree with you here. The recordset builders are terrible.
> In fact the training situation was interesting. Launch DWMX
> and use the "Login Form" template, copy the HTML code, back
> to HS and use that within the HS environment.
>
> I was asked by a canny trainee why. I was tempted to say just
> shut up and do it.
I'm curious, but what exactly did you say? You could certainly have done
everything you needed in one editor or the other.
> Obviously HS doesn't have the "templates" but for everything
> else it does much more.
I don't find this to be the case. There's plenty of stuff that Dreamweaver
does so much better than Homesite, I don't know where to begin! There are
quite a few things I don't like about Dreamweaver, but I couldn't go back to
Homesite as my primary editor after getting to use Dreamweaver for a while!
> The context sensitive help us far more useful (press the F1 key
> (Windows) in a tag for detailed information) and the online help
> is far more useful for cutting and pasting. WTH MM did with this
> in DWMX 2004 is beyond me.
They put it in the Reference panel of the Code panel group. You can't just
press F1 initially, but you can right-click on any tag in code view, select
Reference, and there it'll be. Once you've done that, for subsequent
reference info you can just press F1. You can't copy and paste from it,
though, as far as I can tell.
> And I was trying to cram 8 years of CF coding into 2 days of
> training.
As an experienced instructor, I think this is a mistake, and switching
between text editors within a single exercise won't help any.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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