On Sunday 05 December 2004 02:00, Tim Larson wrote: > Perhaps I am not the only person on this list that has never > used DreamWeaver...
DreamWeaver is loved by many page designers as it manages the various resources and on-page placements "well" (seen from the eye of the designer). The concept is basically like this; Let the page designer use whatever tool he want, to create a rough mock-up of the page with just placeholders for the dynamic data. Give those to the web developer, and he inserts the hidden attributes required to make the dynamic part work. Then the page designer can continue to refine the design in his favourite tool, for instance DreamWeaver, while the programming effort continues in parallel. I don't think DreamWeaver is any better or any worse than other tools regarding "unknown" elements. AFAIU, you can have special tags in the HTML and DW will preserve them, but they will show up as ugly icons, disrupting the overall look. <span> and <div> elements is containing the mock-data within them, which will display as expected, and just be 'dynamic' in the live case. We occasionally use Tapestry for this type of work flow and it works pretty well. For one thing, it is just about impossible to get the artist to learn XSLT, HTML and CSS... let people do what they are good at. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.dpml.net / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+
