Dreamweaver or CMS?

[Rogerio]

What are you Web gurus out there using build web pages with these days? Are you still using programs like dreamweaver and Frontpage, or are you moving over to Content Management Sytems like Joomla!?

Thanks,
Roger

[drobbins]

for starters, please don't mention Dreamweaver and Frontpage in the same sentence:no:

to answer your question, what do you want to do?
Do the CMS systems allow you to do what you want?
If so, then use them
Do you want to do things they don't support?
Then you need to roll your own, Dreamweaver is a nice tool for doing this
You can also do it with notepad:)
If you want it tied to a database backend you need to pick a serverside language and know how to use it
The fact you ask this question makes me think you aren't familiar with how to do this so you might be best off using a CMS
What do you want to do and what do you know how to do?

Dave

[Allen Dick]

I guess it depends what you plan to do. I still use Frontpage, but have Joomla and SimpleMachines sites.

Blogging sites suit many and there are many alternatives.

How big is a box?

[Sundance]

for starters, please don't mention Dreamweaver and Frontpage in the same sentence:no:to answer your question, what do you want to do? Do the CMS systems allow you to do what you want?
If so, then use them..........................

OK so what's a guy to use that doesn't understand
a thing you said????? Am I doomed??:( No one
knows the pain of the technically challenged.

[drobbins]

Frontpage is a lockin to Micro$oft products
it's a tool the evil empire uses to steal your soul:no:
if you want to learn web development you need to start with a text editor
if you get beyond that, let me know, I'll give you pointers
if you just want a website a CMS like Joomla rocks

Dave

[Allen Dick]

It all comes down to what you want to do.

Tell us and we'll give you our thoughts.

[BEES4U]

You might take a look at "Go Daddy"
Ernie

[wmgysi]

I wrote down my experience with web page creation in that thread

OK so what's a guy to use that doesn't understand
a thing you said????? Am I doomed??:( No one
knows the pain of the technically challenged.

[Allen Dick]

Whatever you start with will determine your future options. If you have big ambitions, your choices will limited compared to a person who just wants to write a few chronicles.

[Barry]

Dreamweaver and Wordpress (cms).

[MapMan]

Most folks only need to develop web pages for small businesses or personal use based on a relatively fixed structure. Therefore, they can and do use tools like Dreamweaver.

Only when you get into situations where you are continually accessing and renewing associations to other sites (such as links to news feeds (RSS), blogs, editorial pages, tags and the like) does a content management system like Joomla excel.

Joomla as a development tool is relatively easy to update and add content when compared to some of the other software packages. Easy maintenance is paramount to sites which must constantly change content.

MM

[Allen Dick]

To answer the original question, many of the serious sites use SharePoint and other sophisticated systems. Frontpage was dropped years ago, but the extensions are still offered on both M$ and Linux servers.

MS currently has Expression Studio, SharePoint Designer, and Visual Studio for varying needs. Linux distros these days offer tools that mimic these to some extent.

Web design has become very technical these days, and few of us can claim to gurus any more, even if we dabble in some or all the systems mentioned. For serious web applications, security has become a specialty in itself, while development typically is done by teams and deployed on server farms.

The question is so broad as to be unanswerable. A context would help. Some just want to blog, and that can be done for free on a number of sites like Windows Live, Bogspot, etc.


And remember: Blogger is totally free, and if you have trouble, just click the Help button from any screen, and you can find the answer you're looking for—or even ask our dedicated support staff. http://www.blogger.com/ (http://www.blogger.com/) Wordpress is similar. http://en.wordpress.com/features/ (http://en.wordpress.com/features/)

On the other hand, if you wan to set up a BB like this one, there are free options like http://www.quicktopic.com/

Similarly, most WPPs offer a D 'n' D web browser site designer that anyone with any savvy at all can use to turn out an acceptable basic site.