dreamweaver mx

[sde]

Today i had a chance to experience dreamweaver mx on a titanium laptop. never before have i really liked dreamweaver , or most html editors for that matter, but mx has taken it to another level. it supports php now, so you can just use it in a text-editor environment while it does full syntax-hi-lighting for php code. it also acknowledges that you are using server-side scripting and requests the server info so you can preview your code with the push of 1 button ( F12 ) . when you press f12, it uploads and opens your file in the browser of your choice. The things that make a text-editor good for me is line numbering and syntax hi-lighting. now with the publish feature, and some pretty slick table-creation tools, .. i think i want to use dreamweaver.

however .. dreamweaver puts quotes around every little thing and when you use that html in php, every quote must be escaped with a backslash. I've seen editors that allow you to highlight a string of text and it will escape all necessary characters, .. but i didn't find that in dreamweaver. i didn't spend too long with it, but that for sure would be icing on the cake.

oh yeah.. and once again osx is a dope os. the pulsating ok buttons are pretty slick. i wish macs weren't so expensive.

[revolution]

i played with DW for a bit when the wife first got it, but ive never been really any good with wysiwyg editors. And id really like to get my hands on OS X and see what all the hubub is all about. Ive heard it is really pretty cool.

[MiLady Mirlyn]

ooohhh, a new dreamweaver?!?! I'd love to check that out!

I'm self taught with it and got pretty good with it - for the most part.

Where'd you get it?

I did have some problems with DW, though... but I may have been doing something wrong...

When I'd try to edit a page and add an image, it would re-write the image address to where it was located on my computer instead of the address I typed in there from the server...

Does that make sense? any idea what I was doing wrong?

[sde]

hmmm .. good question .. i've never used dreamweaver except that one time.. i do have a friend who uses it for pretty much everything. he's pretty good at it. i'll have him check out the forum when i get back to work on monday. hopefully he'll sign up and give us the answer.

[MiLady Mirlyn]

Cool, thanks! I look forward to it!

:rock:

[dubsonic]

Dreamweaver/UltraDev uses a local 'www root' folder to ensure that all links and relative directories stay intact. In order to edit an existing web page, you first must 'define a site' within Dreamweaver, and then FTP the page, along with any dependant files, to your local 'www root' folder. Then you can easily update images, rename files, and/or completely rebuild the page! Just FTP back to the server when you are done. Remember to use relative links whenever possible.

Hope this helps,

Joe

[MiLady Mirlyn]

That makes more sense... thanks!!

"Light dawns on marble head!"

one question:

what would be the "www root" folder be in Win 2K Pro? Is there a standard Windows folder that Dreamweaver would use? Or doI just have to use the ol' Trial & Error formula?

Any idea?

Thanks again! :rock:

[Admin]

you can use any folder you like as your root folder. just gotta tell dreamweaver where that folder is

Admin

[sde]

i think what he means by the "www root" folder is the directory where your project is.. for example:

here is my website.. it is in C:\websites\codenewbie

the files in this folder are:
index.html
num.html
contact.html

then i have another directory in this folder called "images":
images

so on my "www root" folder in this case will be C:\websites\codenewbie .. ***Any images on your site must be INSIDE your "www root" folder.

If the image is within your www root directory (or sub-directory - images), then i can make a "relative" path... ie:

<img src=images/picture.jpg>

the address "images/picture.jpg" is relative to your www root folder cause it is inside of it.

lets say you put your image on your desktop .. then the image path could not be relative cause it's not inside... then your image embed tag might look like this:

<img src=C:\Documents and Settings\MeMe\Desktop\picture.jpg>

this is probably the type of thing that was happening for you cause your image was outside your www root directory.


does this make sense?

[MiLady Mirlyn]

(insert "ping" sound)

AH HA!!!!!

does this make sense?

More and more with everyone's help!!