>Bob,
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>Can you expand on why you like Dreamweaver so much? I have read some great reviews of it, but would like to hear the view from a VFP developer's perspective. And do you use in combination with VFP, with web connection for foxweb?

There are a few reasons,I Love Dreamweaver, Re VFP code. well for many reasons I dont put much code in html forms itself, just refrences, to code. as in asp type tags. But the layout methods, or working with tables, and images. Their layout toolbar just makes sense to me, floating paletts of tools, sort of like working with photoshop. I love being able to hit an f10 and see the actual html code. tweek the code here and there, add tag, then just click back on the gui in Dreamweaver, to see what it looks like. - Just wish VFP had that ability really to edit a prg class file, and then view the results, live. - like I can do with html - dreamweaver.. - but hey, thats another story.

I use X-works, as my connection to for vfp - to the web. and the basic reason, was simplicity, it works, first time, out of the box, nothing much to it. write a few proceedure files, and I am off. I then convert vfp's cursors to html using htmlmerge - its in the file section.

After working with Front Page, for a few months, buying the product, and hateing it so much - felt like writing a web page was all a wizard. - the more I pushed it, the more a wizard it looked and acted .... Then trying Dreamweaver. like night and day. Never went back, and the more I know about front page., the less chance I will ever use it again. period.

I also write other code embedded in web pages, like php, and asp, javascript and some mac specific code, dreamweaver never rewrites my code. I can click on a little icon on a web page, edit the two or three lines of script, and then page to the page view, or html view, or whatever.


Last but not least, Dreamweaver assumes you have some knowldge of html. in fact I would say its not the best learning tool. For that stick with homesite, or frontpage express. to get the basics down... But once you know the basics , what a html header is, body, tr / td is. then jump right in. Belive me, you won't go back.

Bob Lee