zag Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 I'm looking for a cheaper alternative to Dreamweaver, what does everyone else use to teach web design in schools? I've found a nice alternative to photoshop called GIMP but dreamweaver has me stumped.
Arthur Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 For the Mac, Flux and RapidWeaver (with the Stacks add-on) are both really good alternatives to Dreamweaver. 1
AWicher Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 kompozer does the job. IT department was asking about just such a thing, this seems to fit the bill, thanx!
Pete10141748 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) I've not used it to teach but personally I like NetObjectsFusion Download NOF page WYSIWYG editor that builds the HTML for you but you can edit it as HTML if you want to, or a mixture of the two. In terms of teaching/learning it might be quite powerful to create something using drag&drop technique and then be able to look at the HTML that is used to actually achieve what you did and match the two together. Edited February 15, 2011 by Pete10141748 1
saket Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 Hi! I want to develop a education based social networking site where most of the content will be generated and managed by users only. Users will manager their content. I am confused about which open source software to use. I want to make it a commercial website. Can you please guide me about strength and weaknesses of various softwares so that i can decide on it. Currently i have following softwares in my mind: Elgg Jamoola Mahara Moodle. Please help me . Also i want to develop it in minimum budget. Thanks & Regards Saket
CyberNerd Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 Out IT dept use Google Sites as well as kompozer
CyberNerd Posted February 26, 2011 Posted February 26, 2011 Hi! I want to develop a education based social networking site where most of the content will be generated and managed by users only. Users will manager their content. I am confused about which open source software to use. I want to make it a commercial website. Can you please guide me about strength and weaknesses of various softwares so that i can decide on it. Currently i have following softwares in my mind: Elgg Jamoola Mahara Moodle. Please help me . Also i want to develop it in minimum budget. Thanks & Regards Saket elgg or mahara for social networking. Moodle and mahara work nicely together 1
SwedishChef Posted March 14, 2011 Posted March 14, 2011 Has anyone tested netObjects or Kompozer on windows 7 (32bit and 64 bit) ?
developer Posted May 1, 2012 Posted May 1, 2012 Bluefish 1.0 is a powerfull editor alternative to dreamweaver.Bluefish 1.0 supports many programming and markup languuages with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code for editing dynamic and interactive sites.
Cache Posted May 1, 2012 Posted May 1, 2012 I've started trying to push Expression Web and Kompozer, although the uptake is slow. Kompozer obviously free, Expression Web available through Dreamspark (free through our EES Subscription)
sonic1485 Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 Sorry to resurrect an old thread but we are also after an alternative to the Adobe/Macromedia suite. We currently use Macromedia Studio 8 which causes us problems in a Windows 7 environment with the recommended patches applied. In an ideal world Adobe CC would be the way to go but the licencing costs just make it impossible to the even contemplate. A lot of people seem to rave about Kompozer and Bluefish and I have also look at BlueGriffon which seems good. I just wondered if people’s views have changed in the 4 years since the OP’s question?
Cache Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 We went with Serif, Kompozer/Expression Web didn't really take.
zag Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 We use notepad++ these days for most web teaching. In my opinion using a WYSIWYG visual editor is not industry practice these days.
LosOjos Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 We use notepad++ these days for most web teaching. In my opinion using a WYSIWYG visual editor is not industry practice these days. I don't think WYSIWYG editors were ever industry practice to be honest! Brackets is a very good editor, includes intelligent auto complete for HTML, CSS and Javascript as well as live debugging in Chrome (i.e. code changes take effect immediately in Chrome) http://www.brackets.io 1
Disease Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 I am looking at Kompozer as an alternative to Dreamweaver but our head of IT who does not know HTML has described it as inadequate for GCSE compared to Dreamweaver, obviously without stating any of these inadequacies.
MattDLEA Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 Does Dreamweaver still put in loads of its own tosh when producing sites. TBH last time i used it was about 10 years ago. I use SublimeText , Atom , or even brackets. but any text editor is all thats needed. Have a look at NVU if your after a Dreamweaver alternative though.
localzuk Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 (edited) Holy old thread batman... We use Serif Web Plus here now. Couldn't afford to continue with the Adobe suite! Does Dreamweaver still put in loads of its own tosh when producing sites. TBH last time i used it was about 10 years ago. Depends what you mean by tosh. If you choose a plain html page, it puts the structure of a basic html document in (with html, head, title, body and the like pre-filled). But that's about it. You can use templates etc... but you don't have to. Edited July 9, 2015 by localzuk
CyberNerd Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Google Web designer is also worth a look (free): https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
Norphy Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Depends what you mean by tosh. If you choose a plain html page, it puts the structure of a basic html document in (with html, head, title, body and the like pre-filled). But that's about it. You can use templates etc... but you don't have to. Indeed, when compared to Frontpage, Dreamweaver is a paragon of good behaviour and HTML. It's quite heavy compared to other HTML editors (as is the CC Suite in general) but as far as WYSIWYG editors go, it's quite good.
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