Comments on: Web Design Courses and Dreamweaver http://six03.com/2009/04/web-design-courses-and-dreamweaver/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:04:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Todd http://six03.com/2009/04/web-design-courses-and-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Todd Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:15:03 +0000 http://six03.com/?p=285#comment-235 Here's my take on the topic. Whatever is widely advertised in the web community, to those who have none to very limited knowledge of current software, open source choices and standards these days pertaining to the web, they think that whatever that solution is, it must be the current web standard and industry standard. Take for instance, a company I worked for a couple years ago. They use a clunky custom made CMS done with AJAX methods. While a the "cutting edge" at the time, they thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. When I tried to persuade management to switch to a widely used platform, such as Drupal or WordPress, they would have none of it. I made the suggestion and figured out that the suggestions I made would have saved the company a ton of money. Not only by saving them money by having them not have to call in this 3rd party to have to make updates and change things on the back-end, but also with bandwidth and all the other stuff companies can do to save money. Needless to say, they balked. Which was fine, I took my services elsewhere for a few months and ran into the same situion almost with another company, an online magazine. It's what the person is used to, in your case, TextMate, that is YOUR standard, not the industry's standard. DW just happens to be the "standard" to most people who are limited in their knowledge of things web these days because it's been around for ages.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('235','Todd'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('235','Todd','Here\'s my take on the topic. Whatever is widely advertised in the web community, to those who have none to very limited knowledge of current software, open source choices and standards these days pertaining to the web, they think that whatever that solution is, it must be the current web standard and industry standard.\n\nTake for instance, a company I worked for a couple years ago. They use a clunky custom made CMS done with AJAX methods. While a the \"cutting edge\" at the time, they thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. When I tried to persuade management to switch to a widely used platform, such as Drupal or WordPress, they would have none of it. I made the suggestion and figured out that the suggestions I made would have saved the company a ton of money. Not only by saving them money by having them not have to call in this 3rd party to have to make updates and change things on the back-end, but also with bandwidth and all the other stuff companies can do to save money.\n\nNeedless to say, they balked. Which was fine, I took my services elsewhere for a few months and ran into the same situion almost with another company, an online magazine.\n\nIt\'s what the person is used to, in your case, TextMate, that is YOUR standard, not the industry\'s standard.\n\nDW just happens to be the \"standard\" to most people who are limited in their knowledge of things web these days because it\'s been around for ages.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Here’s my take on the topic. Whatever is widely advertised in the web community, to those who have none to very limited knowledge of current software, open source choices and standards these days pertaining to the web, they think that whatever that solution is, it must be the current web standard and industry standard.

Take for instance, a company I worked for a couple years ago. They use a clunky custom made CMS done with AJAX methods. While a the “cutting edge” at the time, they thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. When I tried to persuade management to switch to a widely used platform, such as Drupal or WordPress, they would have none of it. I made the suggestion and figured out that the suggestions I made would have saved the company a ton of money. Not only by saving them money by having them not have to call in this 3rd party to have to make updates and change things on the back-end, but also with bandwidth and all the other stuff companies can do to save money.

Needless to say, they balked. Which was fine, I took my services elsewhere for a few months and ran into the same situion almost with another company, an online magazine.

It’s what the person is used to, in your case, TextMate, that is YOUR standard, not the industry’s standard.

DW just happens to be the “standard” to most people who are limited in their knowledge of things web these days because it’s been around for ages.

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]]> By: redhedded1 http://six03.com/2009/04/web-design-courses-and-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-233 redhedded1 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:12:05 +0000 http://six03.com/?p=285#comment-233 I can't imagine anyone thinking that using Dreamweaver would be a standard. I do use it, for the occasional image map and to web publish large amounts of copy. But even then, I am just taking a section out in code view and then applying my ids and classes to it. There are many tools to aid in "hand-coding", first and foremost a good plain text editor of your choice. I'm more efficient in TextMate on my mac than most people using Dreamweaver any day.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('233','redhedded1'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('233','redhedded1','I can\'t imagine anyone thinking that using Dreamweaver would be a standard. I do use it, for the occasional image map and to web publish large amounts of copy. But even then, I am just taking a section out in code view and then applying my ids and classes to it. There are many tools to aid in \"hand-coding\", first and foremost a good plain text editor of your choice. I\'m more efficient in TextMate on my mac than most people using Dreamweaver any day.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I can’t imagine anyone thinking that using Dreamweaver would be a standard. I do use it, for the occasional image map and to web publish large amounts of copy. But even then, I am just taking a section out in code view and then applying my ids and classes to it. There are many tools to aid in “hand-coding”, first and foremost a good plain text editor of your choice. I’m more efficient in TextMate on my mac than most people using Dreamweaver any day.
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