Web Design Courses and Dreamweaver

Feb 4

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The local college and the local school that offers college courses offers web design as a course. Both these courses use Dreamweaver as the aid for students to help them in their learning. The only thing I have a gripe with is that the local courses for college credits list Dreamweaver as

the industry standard.

If you’re reading this article, I would like to hear your input. Do you think this is so? Is Dreamweaver the “industry standard” and if not, what are your thoughts? What would your “standard” be? What do you use in your aid and if you were the instructor, what would you use as your aid to help students learn web design?

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Testing and My Own Browser Wars

Feb 4

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I’m currently testing out the Safari 4 Beta and I have to admit, I am more than impressed by it so far. It’s fast, it looks good, the tabs are nice and implemented well. The only grip is the absence of an address bar at the bottom like in IE (ugh) or Firefox.

Other than that one minor details, I’m liking it. I’m currently bouncing around between Firefox, Opera and Safari (for Windows). Firefox has lost some ground. I have not been doing web work and it’s really floundering on this machine. Opera is nice, I like it and have used it often, so that browser is in 2nd place currently.

Safari 4 Beta has marched right up to #3 and the rate that it’s going as far as impressing me, it will hit #1 in no time flat. We shall see. It was super quick loading. It doesn’t eat up a bunch of PC memory either, no CPU hogging here with this browser.

Tweaking Firefox like those tip and trick sites tell you to try doesn’t seem to do jack shit pertaining to speeding up the browser and making it so Firefox does not hog up a crap load of memory. On some sites, it just flops and dies. Epic failure across the board.

Opera is Opera. Old Faithful. Though I was having problems with all the browsers I had on this machine a month or so ago, but that was due to the computer needing a super cleansing which I did and found a lot of junk that did not need to be in, on or around the machine I use.

I like the buttons and menus up at the upper right, the “Report Bug” button is a great feature, I wonder if that will stay on the release when it goes out of beta. Now all I need is one of those souped-up Macs that have people and their heads spinning.