[WEB4LIB] Re: Dreamweaver vs. HotMetal Pro

[Charlotte Gerstein]

Does anyone know how Dreamweaver and Hot Metal stack up against
Symantec's Visual Page?  Visual Page is my favorite WYSIWYG HTML editor,
but I can only compare it to Claris Homepage, Adobe Pagemill and
Netscape Composer.  Why isn't Visual Page more widely used?

Leo Robert Klein wrote:
> 
> At 05:43 AM 6/19/99 -0700, Mark Gooch wrote:
> >
> >I am considering purchasing an HTML editor and I have it narrowed down
> >to Dreamweaver 2.0 and HotMetal Pro 5.0.  Could people who have used
> >these two products provide me with some feedback regarding their
> >experience with them?
> 
> While I haven't used HotMetal since, I think, 2.0, I do use Dreamweaver to
> a considerable extent and vouch for its ease of use.  I first decided to
> use it for the library because it produced the cleanest code of all WYSISYG
> html editors.  Currently you can design templates whose elements (e.g.
> navigation) are fixed.  This is a help in situations where you have several
> hands producing copy, not all of them with a lot of html experience.  It's
> best to use it in conjunction with either Homesite or BBedit.
> 
> Just to make your life more complicated, Golive--most recently by Adobe--is
> getting a fair proportion of buzz.  You might want to have a look at that
> too.  Probably the best thing to do is simply download the demo versions
> and see what you think.  You've got 30 days generally before the carriage
> turns into a pumpkin for these things.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Leo Robert Klein
> 
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