Dreamweaver available at academic rate

[Judy Myers]

Re the note below, Dreamweaver is available at an academic rate that is
about half of the list price.

Judy E. Myers                              jm at uh.edu
Assistant to the Dean of Libraries         713/743-9805 (voice)
University of Houston Libraries            713/743-9811 (fax)
Houston, TX 77204-2091

>Macromedia's Dreamweaver is a decent if not pricey product.  Featuring both
>graphical and source editors, one can switch between the two and
>immediately see the changes that were made (dubbed: Roundtrip HTML).  If
>you don't like their source editor, it associates nicely with others like
>BBEdit or HomeSite.  DW also suppposedly validates code with its "Property
>Inspector", although I cannot say what level or type of validation this is
>- apparently very basic errors.  You may also check your code against
>particular versions of MSIE or NNav.
>
>DW does not *add* extraneous code to your document, but it *can* at times
>misinterpret your intentions when editing in the graphical editor.  It also
>supports DHTML (esp. CSS-P and Javascript) with the use of the "libraries"
>feature.  I've heard rumors that DW 2.0 has some limited support for XML.
>
>If you're working in a distributed authoring environment, the Site Manager
>will allow "checking in/out" of documents so that an author can tag a
>document on the server as under revision.  This should avoid multiple edits
>overwriting one another, assuming that all authors understand and agree to
>use it of course.  (I have no experience with this feature.)
>
>Perhaps the biggest drawback with DW is that for those with very little
>authoring experience, the learning curve may be too much.  Those of us who
>use it here have learned how to use it one piece at a time.  
>
>Hope this is useful.
>-kb
>
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