Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, I'm glad to hear you suffered: not because you suffered, but because the same thing happened to me. I had finally got to grips with goLive when it was dumped: Move now I thought, how different can Dreamweaver be now its an Adobe product: Well, I'm back hacking through goLive ;-) Cheers --- photo@frozenlight.eu wrote: From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Now, here is a piece of Adobe software I really hate... Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:02:09 +0200 Just as my image processing needs are simple, so are my web page creation needs. I do not want to use Flash, I am not selling anything through my web pages, I just use them to show the rest of you my pictures. I have tried different packages over the years, without being completely happy with any of them. So I thought, let me get Dreamweaver, a lot of people whose sites I like use that, and the educational pricing (my son is a university student) is cheap. I tried to accomplish a simple task yesterday--to import the main page of my frozenlight.eu web site into Dreamweaver so I could reorganize it a bit. After 2 hours of failed attempts I gave up. The massive manual talks about things like Ajax (which to me means a football club in Amsterdam), Spry, Javabeans (yes, I have had two cups this morning) etc. What it does not talk about is simple things: how to create a web page, how do you import an HTML file created by another application etc. After cursing and a couple of beers, I just gave up on Dreamweaver and downloaded the Leopard update of Freeway Express, the software I have used most recently. It is clunky but at least I know how it works, more or less. To date, I have not found a web creation program which easy to use. Oh yes, iWeb is easy but it has so many limitations that it is useless for managing a site. I have tried Rapidweaver and several others--all sucked. Good thing they all let you download trial versions.... Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information