Expression Web 3 Vs DreamWeaver CS4 ?

[ttime]

What would you say would be the better editor?

I know (and tested) that MS expression web 2 created code that was more SEO friendly, and was compatible with all of dreamweaver templates. However adobie is ultimately the better tool.

With EW3 out, would it be superior or equivalent to dreamWeaver CS4?

Mirosorft seems to have fixed most of the bugs and made it more .php friendly.

 

[kblessinggr]

I guess the best question to ask is... 90% of the time, do you work in code view, or do you work in design view?

 

[force-11]

Eclipse, TextWrangler, Notepad, vim... oh those weren't the options.

 

[B 4 I Fu Ru 18]

Yeah dreamweaver shouldn't be on the top of the list. IMO

 

[bb_wolfe]

I guess the best question to ask is... 90% of the time, do you work in code view, or do you work in design view?

I much prefer this view:

 

[kblessinggr]

I much prefer this view:

Must come in handy for the ladies to wear.

 

[Refrozen]

Must come in handy for the ladies to wear.

hahahahahahaha

 

[DirtyB]

I prefer to stick with Code view almost all the time. If you are into CSS, I highly recommend Stylizer (Skybound: Stylizer, A Highly Refined Visual CSS Editor, For Everyone From CSS Novice To CSS Ninja). You can do live CSS editing and there is no need to have coding skills.

 

[Fatbat]

Yeah dreamweaver shouldn't be on the top of the list. IMO

Any particular reason why not?

 

[SideControl]

Expression Web = Better for coding by hand
Dreamweaver = Better for WYSIWYG (but writes bloated code)

 

[Fatbat]

Expression Web = Better for coding by hand
Dreamweaver = Better for WYSIWYG (but writes bloated code)

Why isn't Dreamweaver good for coding by hand? No one in their right mind uses the WYSIWYG functions.

 

[SpamHat]

^^ Yeah the WYSIWYG in DW makes some seriously shitty code.

Plain text files FTW.

 

[kblessinggr]

Why isn't Dreamweaver good for coding by hand? No one in their right mind uses the WYSIWYG functions.

I'm wondering this as well, when I was using DW CS4 , I had it in code view 100% of the time.

 

[SideControl]

Dreamweaver is alright for code view, and I used to use it exclusively, but Expression Web is better. Just my experience, maybe I wasn't using the right features but for example when coding CSS, I found that Expression Web's color coding was better, and it's drop-down menus of possible options are very helpful.

I just found it a lot easier to use, and I prefer Expression Web to other text-coding programs like Notepad++ (although there are functions of that I like as well).

Also if you like to have your coding be compliant to the current doctype, Expression Web helps you do that and as far as I know Dreamweaver doesn't do that. I've only used DW CS3 though not CS4, so my sentiments might be outdated.

Here's a graphic of the color coding differences:

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[oknetwork]

CS4 does that all

 

[kblessinggr]

Dreamweaver is alright for code view, and I used to use it exclusively, but Expression Web is better. Just my experience, maybe I wasn't using the right features but for example when coding CSS, I found that Expression Web's color coding was better, and it's drop-down menus of possible options are very helpful.

I just found it a lot easier to use, and I prefer Expression Web to other text-coding programs like Notepad++ (although there are functions of that I like as well).

Also if you like to have your coding be compliant to the current doctype, Expression Web helps you do that and as far as I know Dreamweaver doesn't do that. I've only used DW CS3 though not CS4, so my sentiments might be outdated.

Here's a graphic of the color coding differences:

[URL=http://img188.imageshack.us/i/dwexprweb.jpg/]

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Depends on what you set for the syntax highlighting, dreamweaver will do that too. If syntax highlighting is a reason to crown one over the other, there's quite a few simpler editors that may outdo both of those.