[thelist] "Hand Coding" in DWMX2004

[Peekstok, Anna]

Russ wrote:

>Check to make sure what version of DW you have.  Several versions ago
>that wasn't uncommon, but now, years later, it is, indeed, a rarity for
>it to behave that way.

Dreamweaver MX v. 6.0, running on Windows 2000. I just fired it up and wow,
it didn't change my code -- at least, not during a 5-minute test.

What it DID do that irritated me was:

1. Demand that I define a "site" on my hard drive and give it complete
information about how I FTP this content to the server, including addresses
and passwords, before it would even open a file. Felt like being ordered to
sign a prenuptial agreement before a blind date.

2. In WYSIWYG mode, it did a fairly poor job of showing me what my page
looks like in real browsers. Maybe this is why I don't bother with it; what
good is a WYSIWYG view that isn't WYSIWYG?

Anna

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Anna Peekstok
King County Department of Transportation
Community Relations and Communications
206-263-6482