Dreamweaver

Most of us see what you mean. You do NOT want a code editor, you want a WYSIWYG editor like Word. You should know Word is the worst, along with Frontpage, HTML editor ever. Good commercial WYSIWYG editors: Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver. Expensive, but the best stuff around. If you know Quark Xpress, you may like SoftPress Freeway. I have a suggestion: it seems...

aha! it's director! i don't really use it... i usually just use dreamweaver and photoshop, then i preview in safari. I sometimes need illustrator, but not too often. ...

By the way, Macromedia Studio MX is Fireworks Dreamweaver Flash and Freehand all bundled together. ...

I don't need a plug, mine lasts! Still want that screen though. Oh well, need to learn to live with what I've been lucky enough to get. I wish I had that kind of contract, I would get something on paper if I were you... When I mean too small to design on, I am talking about Dreamweaver. I've really got to buy MX Studio. Do you have that? I am waiting for Contribute though,...

That'll be your root testing server folder... and possibly your final server if you intend to serve on-line live from there. /Library/Apache2/htdocs/ is the default location for Apache's web server location for your html, php files etc. You can work off your work hard drive/folder with php files just fine, but Dreamweaver, upon clicking the sychronise button will upload...

Thanks for your reply! If Dreamweaver only works on 3 folder systems, then the root folder for the php application server must be referring to the folder /library/apache2/ht docs, anything in this folder can be published by apache2. I guess I will go forward with this assumption. Again, thanks.

Does Go Live have any buttons that pre-exist that I can incorporate into my site? Right now I have buttons that end in the .SWF extension... and I was told that I cannot make a drop down menu unless the rest of the buttons are .SWF for the drop down menu.

Dreamweaver works with 3 folder systems: 1. Local root folder (where your working files exist) 2. Testing server (folder)... (where you test your web files prior to uploading to a live server, if on OSX, normally your Apache root folder). 3. Server... your live on-line server (final destination.) For example: I run all my projects/work off a separate hard drive...

What toast means is that GoLive creates it own system of managing a site project (culminating in a GoLive folder holding GoLive '.site' files for each site). You will have no problem opening your GoLive html pages in Dreamweaver (and vice versa) but DW won't recognise the GoLive '.site' files. You would have to recreate the site management in Dreamweavers own Site...