On 31 Jul 2002 at 15:08, Terry & Claire Hart wrote: > Does anyone with experience have an opinion about creating websites [in a journalism >class -bcv] > with Frontpage vs. with Dreamweaver?
If you're talking about the newest versions, Dreamweaver is significantly better in writing standards-compliant code, that'll work more reliably on a wider variety of systems, and follow a structure that (IMO) is easier to alter later by hand. It's also become more of an "industry standard," so they'll be gaining experience with the technology they're more likely to encounter. Frontpage offers all kinds of extra functionality via "frontpage extensions," which are a MS technology that limits use to servers that support it. > Our up-and-coming journalism class will > publish an on-line newsletter as well as our paper edition, and I'm > needing suggestions. Depends on your goal. If you want students to translate existing projects from Quark or Pagemaker or whatever onto the Internet and leave it at that, you can probably use just about anything and get a satisfying result. If you want to teach them how to seriously produce and publish content in the Web medium, then you're gonna want to stick more closely to formatting conventions, maybe go into the code a little bit, even talk a little bit about CSS, XML & separating form from content. Any time you put "vs." in a subject line, you'll find people to passionately argue both sides. I'm not one of 'em. It'd be pretty hard to find a solution that *won't* work, so pick whatever gives you the best vibes. :) -BEN -- PHYS: two hundred seventh ave, number seventeen, ny ny 10011 PHON: eight seven seven, six one nine, eight five two four PAGE: bengoesbeep at vesana dot com CHAT: aetherchild (aim/yim/msn) -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
