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Posted 12 Nov 2007 04:17:00
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12 Nov 2007 04:17:00 Derek Schauland posted:
I am relatively new to PHP and brand new to DW and was hoping I could find a good starting point... have read a few books and played with some tutorials for DW but am still not sure where to begin...I guess I want to get started and learn Dreamweaver, but am not sure about the whole reinventing the wheel thing... there are lots of developers building things that work already... this seems to be the biggest hurdle in doing any sort of design...
I am not really sure where/how to start...
I'm just your friendly neighborhood webjunkie
Using DW 8.0.2 and into MySQL and PHP
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Replied 12 Nov 2007 23:36:14
12 Nov 2007 23:36:14 Alan C replied:
Hi,
if you are happy 'hand coding' php with mysql then you have a really good starting point to use DW. My own experience was that DW does the easy things really well, like setting up a form to add records to a table or showing records and doing updates, but when you want more complex things then you really need to know what is going on - and that's where your coding experience comes in useful.
DW does some really neat bits of coding, but if you start messing with it and editing it by hand then DW tends to give up and you can end up in a situation where you have to do all the changes by hand.
I often start off with the DW version, then look at what's really going on in the code and tweak it to do just what I want. Sorry if that sounds a bit vague.
I'm sure there will be others that will tell you different. I am an old coder and do find it difficult not to dive in and look at what's goiing on, sometimes that's not the best approach.
if you are happy 'hand coding' php with mysql then you have a really good starting point to use DW. My own experience was that DW does the easy things really well, like setting up a form to add records to a table or showing records and doing updates, but when you want more complex things then you really need to know what is going on - and that's where your coding experience comes in useful.
DW does some really neat bits of coding, but if you start messing with it and editing it by hand then DW tends to give up and you can end up in a situation where you have to do all the changes by hand.
I often start off with the DW version, then look at what's really going on in the code and tweak it to do just what I want. Sorry if that sounds a bit vague.
I'm sure there will be others that will tell you different. I am an old coder and do find it difficult not to dive in and look at what's goiing on, sometimes that's not the best approach.
Replied 13 Nov 2007 15:26:09
13 Nov 2007 15:26:09 Kieran Pearce replied:
i've only been using dreamweaver for about 2 months now. my starting point was to just play around with the program, its easy to pick up if you know what you want to do.
I also bought 2 books to help me along the way. One was a Dreamweaver for dummies book which, in my opinion, was useless. I also bought a dreamweaver mx 2004 accelerated guide. im not using mx 2004 anymore but its still a very good book. Heres a link to the book:
www.amazon.co.uk/Dreamweaver-sup-2004-Accelerated-Full-Color/dp/893143507X/ref=pd_bbs_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194960137&sr=8-13
I also bought 2 books to help me along the way. One was a Dreamweaver for dummies book which, in my opinion, was useless. I also bought a dreamweaver mx 2004 accelerated guide. im not using mx 2004 anymore but its still a very good book. Heres a link to the book:
www.amazon.co.uk/Dreamweaver-sup-2004-Accelerated-Full-Color/dp/893143507X/ref=pd_bbs_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194960137&sr=8-13