28 Mar
Dreamweaver first, and only, impressions
Why was I throwing myself at the mercy of Adobe’s automated ‘help’ last week?
Well I’ve been helping out moving the church website I used to administer over to a new design and platform. Joomla was just too capable for the parish and was putting people off. Myself included, trying to sort out both sections and categories for a relatively simple site became quite a headache.
Anyway, given the current situation a static website seemed the best plan with Dreamweaver the editor in use. I use Microsoft Expression Web myself so I sorted out the template first and then had a go at transferring it over.
To my delight it worked very well. The template file, .dwt, was opened without any comment and we got started creating pages very quickly.
Dreamweaver was pretty impressive just in some basic editing over a couple of hours, hence I considered the change. It’s a shame there’s no crossgrade path from Expression Web, £400 is just too much to make it a possible buy.
