Sorry all,
Another one of amo's "silly questions"
Have just managed to get a copy of dreamweaver and was wondering what all the CBFS webmasters/fsim repainters use and if it is dreamweaver is it better/easier to use than the terrible mS Frontpage I am using at present?
Have decided against buying FSX and spent the last week redrawing my A320 and have just finished the "Family" ie A318cfm,A319cfm,A320cfm,A321cfm - A319iae,A320iae & A321iae.
Also have finished BAe146-100/200/300
Have also finished one of my favourite commuter planes the Saab340.
Sneak previews available at: http://www.fantasyf1art.pwp.blueyonder. ... 46-100.htm http://www.fantasyf1art.pwp.blueyonder. ... 320cfm.htm http://www.fantasyf1art.pwp.blueyonder. ... aab340.htm
Still lots to do and I am sorry Charlie Bravo the Fokker50 revisions have been but on ice :redface:
In the above links if you sub 200 & 300 for 100 in the html you can cycle through variants - same with airbus family A319iae etc.
Working on a Jetstream 31 at present.
Cheers
amo
My wife uses Adobe GoLive for our web pages - drag and drop - draw where you want pictures, etc. (WYSIWYG ideal for those used to Photoshop and Illustrator).
We did investigate Dreamweaver while she was doing her HNC - looks ok if you want to use a database driven website with ASP pages, but overkill for a simple site.
Some people will tell you that the best and simplest web site program is Notepad and hand-crafted HTML. But if I have to do my own web site, I would take a look at NVU - free at http://www.nvu.com/index.php with support forums for help.
I have Dreamweaver MX, and did evening classes in it a couple of years back. I've never used Frontpage, but I was told by the lecturer that Dreamweaver is far better. Also did an HTML course prior to that, so I was pretty well equipped to create a homepage...which I never did.
Believe it or not, for simple pages without all the bells and whistles, most of us already have a great HTML page maker. It's called Outlook Express! Start a new message in Rich Text format, then under the View menu, check the Source Edit option. Lay out what you like (maximize the window for best results), then click the Source tab at the bottom. Right-click in the source code and Select All, then right-click again and copy. Open Notepad and paste the code, then save the file using the .htm extension with the filename and "All files" in the filetype menu below that. Everything within my meager little site was done this way. It's not going to win any web design awards, but it works, and it gets the information out there.
Flash animations for no reason don't get people coming back.
And if you look at the amount of HTML code something like Frontpage or Dreamweaver or GoLive produces, much of it looks overkill. But that's the price of WYSIWYG.
Flash animations for no reason don't get people coming back.
And if you look at the amount of HTML code something like Frontpage or Dreamweaver or GoLive produces, much of it looks overkill. But that's the price of WYSIWYG.
Ian
The other side to that is that Dreamweaver can be another way of learning basic HTML, if you are not familiar with it in the first place. I use Dreamweaver MX2, but I'd no real knowledge of HTML coding before I started; by using the split design/code view I was able to see how a WYSWIWIG change worked in HTML, to the extent that I can now handcode to a relatively useful extent - it also means that I can now prune the Dreamweaver coding to compensate for the 'overkill', all the extra little bits it drops in whether you want them or not!
Yes a good way of understanding HTML. Although my wife's tutor had them coding by hand before allowing them to use Dreamweaver. And of course a quick look at the code was enough to see whether they had cheated
But only the same principle as the old days of writing assembler code compared with modern day compilers. As PCs and internet links get faster the bloat is not so obvious, and development is faster.
I didn't have a tutor teaching me how to use things!! My computing is almost entirely self taught, the only official training I have ever had was a one day MS Excel advanced course (which taught me some basic stuff I didn't know, and I taught them how to use pivot tables!!) and the Illustrator course I am doing at the moment at evening class.
I guess the advantage of being so old and wrinkly is that I understand some of the background principles (having had to use the likes of MS-DOS etc), so can usually reason my way into new software applications; i.e. well, if that does that then, logically, this must do this. :think:
I didn't have a tutor teaching me how to use things!! My computing is almost entirely self taught,
ditto on that - and I'm old and grey too.
My wife went to college fairly recently to learn things that didn't really interest me and hence I was unable to pass on any knowledge (3d, animation, web).
Thanks for the input guys.
I am self taught in coreldraw and photoshop so dreamweaver should be easy!! although the manual is about 450 pages.
Cheers
amo
