Comments on: Dreamweaver 8

By: Teacher

Teacher — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:01:47 +0000

I’m using Adobe Golive, i admit that DreamWeaver is more powerful, but i think that Golive is abit more friendly, anyway very soon they would become one product after Adobe-Macromedia merge, hope the new product will take the best of both.

By: Steve Crow

Steve Crow — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:21:55 +0000

I have the PC trial version of DW 8 and I notice that I don’t get the chance to select Strict XHTML when you create a new page.

You simply get a checkbox to make the document XHTML compliant but the code it creates is for transitional, not strict. Have you noticed this or am I doing something wrong?

I was able to manually edit the source code to match your example so I assume I am good to go but thought I would ask and what better place than here?

Cheers!

By: Jim Rockingham

Jim Rockingham — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:10:23 +0000

I used to use Microsoft FrontPage, but have recently converted to Dreamweaver after reading your book. Many thanks its much better.

By: Viktor

Viktor — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:44:28 +0000

I never use Dreamweaver since it generates code I dont want. But I haven’t used it since it were version 4 or something, maybe I should give it a try.

By: Phil Greg

Phil Greg — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:28:08 +0000

Rachel, I strill love the blog…more posts please. Did you get chance to read mine. I’m great feedback.

Phil – Tideswell Man

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:39:06 +0000

Hi Rachel,
I have read the sample chapters of your Dreamweaver 8 book and have to say I am impressed. It clearly lays out the benefits of web standards while still using the “language of Dreamweaver” that most web designers understand. I was thinking perhaps you might be interested in coming on a podcast I run (www.boagworld.com) to talk about your book. A lot of my listeners are Dremweaver users and have not yet moved across to web standards. I think this would really help them. There is also the added bonus that my podcasts are going to be included on the Practical Web Design Magazine over the next few months. Anyway get in touch if your interested. BTW, always nice to meet another christian web designer

By: Travis Chillemi

Travis Chillemi — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:04:40 +0000

Been using version 8 for a few days. It does seems snappier. Why can’t there be s checkbox that will tell Dreamwever to place all Javascript into an external file? I’m talking about the built in behaviors. If part of web standards is seprating content, presentation, and behavior, automatically storing the Javascripts in an external file seems like a no-brainer. I guess I’ll have to move them by hand.

By: Phil Gregory

Phil Gregory — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:57:40 +0000

Well, Rachel…I have been waiting patiently for the new version of DW, so i was really excited to see it’s finally been released.

I love the collapsable tags..what a god send.

Not sure about the css backgrounds though. I really do like the fact that you can update your css properly through the css rule definition dialogue.

In DWmx2004 it was a nut ache!

For me its a shame that the PHP provision doesnt seem to have been improved

By: Simon R Jones

Simon R Jones — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:54:00 +0000

I’ve been using a beta version for the past few weeks and have found the CSS support vastly improved, allowing far easier editing of more complex CSS based layouts.

The change in HTML code completion is nice too. DW now only completes the closing tag once you start to type

And so far, it’s never crashed on my PC (unlike MX2004)

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:53:00 +0000

I got the email today announcing it with a dumb header graphic that said “Celebr8te.”. Which if you say it like its written says “Celebr-ate-te.”… Not the smartest tag line.