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Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expressions

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I have used Frontpage for many years and have delayed moving on to a new program due to extreme time constraints that occurred when my business partner/best friend past away. So I'm going to force myself to make a big change, which will most likely require just building new web sites from the ground up to make sure all of the extra code that FP creates is gone and the web sites can be seen properly on other devices as well. I really like the way FP made it easy to maintain the web sites, make changes, and gave me so much control over the forms.

Should I go with Dreamweaver or Expressions?
 
Hey there,

I've never tried out Microsoft Expressions because there isn't a Mac version that I am aware of. I've been using Dreamweaver for the past 5 or so years now and I really love it. (We've used it on JUB for years now.)

The latest version is really designer friendly and has a lot of built-in features that make static web development almost point and click. You can add extensions to the program that extend the base app features for all sorts of things (like php, asp, jQuery, air, ect.), but personally I would advise that you have a decent/strong grasp on the tech before using them. You can never be to careful when using someone else's code. (There is an sftp/ftp bug in the current version when dealing with re-connecting to a server when the connection times out from lack of activity though.)

You may have checked them out already, but Adobe has some pretty cool videos at http://tv.adobe.com/product/dreamweaver/ that will show you all the bells and whistles in the latest version.

I'm not sure what OS platform you are using, but there are a few other great options that cost less then Dreamweaver does. None of them are point and click like FrontPage though.

Aptana Studio - www.aptana.com (Mac/Win - I own v2 and test v3 beta.)
Coda - www.panic.com/coda/ (Mac Only)
BBEdit - www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ (Mac Only)
 
There are several very good free apps. From list T-Rexx posted Komodo Edit, Eclipse and NetBeans IDE are really good apps and they're free. They'll require that you do most of your work as straight code. They don't have a WYSIWUG interface like Frontpage and Dreamweaver do. (I've never used the other apps on the list.)
 
I have Expressions from back then when it still was a vector program...
 
Dreamweaver is good, runs on Windows and Mac, and its later releases are quite designer-friendly, but it is more complex than FrontPage (think of it as something like WordPad versus Word) and quite expensive, as everything Adobe. It does the job for me, though.

I've never used Expression. From what I see, unlike FrontPage, it looks pretty much typical Microsoft -- that is, coder-friendly. However, it's much cheaper.
 
Dreamweaver. Its way more powerful than anything Microsoft could cobble together, but its also relatively easy to use. (if you know what you're doing)
 
I use eclipse, I prefer to type my code :) And there are several frameworks that make that task easier for you, too.

But if I had to chose between the too, I would choose the lesser evil: Dreamweaver.
 
Thank you for the advise everyone. I very much appreciate it. I think that I have decided to go with Dreamweaver. I need something that is going to make it easy to manage my web sites and hopefully save me some time as well.

One of the reasons why I have decided on Dreamweaver is because I feel like I have already been kind of burned by Microsoft twice so far, the way they just cancel products and start over without anything that can help to convert what you have into the new format. Not just with FP but also with VB. I have a custom program written by my best friend in VB6 and it is not easy finding training for an old version. I would need to create a whole new db, which I have no experience with. So that will have to wait on that. One thing at a time.

I will start with learning Dreamweaver and then I will begin looking at shopping cart software to see if I can find a new one that offers a lot of flexibility, options, and simplicity to create and manage.
 
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