codemonkeys and WYSIWYG HTML editors

From: Kenneth R. Irwin <kirwin_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:42:20 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Hi folks,

Does anyone use Dreamweaver or similar software to develop websites that
are very dynamically-generated? Does it work well?

Most of our library web pages are, to one extent or another, generated by
MySQL/PHP queries on the fly. My (very brief) experience trying to use
Dreamweaver to work on the site was that my dynamic code wasn't
*processed*, so the supposedly WYSIWYG output really very little resembles
"what you get".

Is there a way to use Dreamweaver or similar programs to work nicely with a
lot of scripts, or is it just futile to try? I have always pretty much
relied on raw, hand-coded web pages, and could well continue to do so, but
sometimes it seems like making someone else do the heavy lifting could be
nice...

curious to hear other folks' experiences
Ken


Ken Irwin                                               kirwin_at_wittenberg.edu
Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian        (937) 327-7594
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 13:48:45 EDT