Web Design Facts, revised.

In article <C0C80928.533AB%SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Snit <SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

* One of top selling points of Dreamweaver is having both a good visual
editor *and* a good text editor in one package. On Adobe's Dreamweaver
page the first item they list in their "Why Dreamweaver" list is:
"Use a world-class design and code editor in one tool."

Indeed. But you can't actually use the text editor if the visual
editor won't understand your code, which it won't if you're a little
more serious web developer doing more than just static web sites with
some PHP templating from dreamweaver.

Like me, for example. It's not that I don't like dw, I couldn't
possibly use it

* Dreamweaver, being the number one pro web design tool,

Number one pro wysiwyg design tool.

is not used by just beginners

Who claimed it was?

nor is it designed just for beginners,

Of course not, but that's pretty much all that it's good for.

* To teach a Dreamweaver class requires on to both know the topic *and*
have good teaching skills.

Are you nuts? When is "having good teaching skills" a prerequisite for
being a teacher? There are hundreds of thousands of really really bad
teachers out there.

To teach a Dreamweaver class, you don't need to know a single thing
about web *design*, however, which you obviously had to leave out.


When Sandman and Tim Adams claim a trained
monkey could teach such a class you not only minimize the skills needed
to use professional tools you show complete ignorance for what it takes
to teach.

Nopes. Trained monkeys could replace lots of teachers around the
globe. Nothing new about that.

* While Photoshop is a very important and powerful tool for web designers,
it is not a web design tool itself.

It's *the* web design tool. With emphasis of the word "design".

DreamWeaver handles templates and disposition, the design is made in
Photoshop if you're serious about design.

Recognizing this does not minimize
Photoshop's importance nor the importance of its slices and other web
focused features. While there may be advantages to using Photoshop on
one platform vs. another, Photoshop is excellent on both OS X and XP.

Photoshop sucks on XP due to MDI.

You will work to obfuscate these facts, Sandman

Actually, I will work to - in vain - correct your misinformation which
is due to the fact that you know nothing about web design.



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Sandman[.net]
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