Comments on: The Website Business is Heating Up

By: Marty Hawrysko

Marty Hawrysko — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:03:51 +0000

Dreamweaver adds extra code that you don’t need… kind of like “bloating up” your page. Makes it harder to validate later on.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:06:22 +0000

What’s up, Martin? I always hand write my own code. I’ve never used Dreamweaver and I have little interest in trying to learn it. In fact, I had it installed on my computer and I actually uninstalled it because I didn’t care for it.

I usually design the site in Photoshop and then dice it up and hand write all of the code from that point. I think that hand writing gives me the most control over every aspect of the site.

By: Marty Hawrysko

Marty Hawrysko — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:20:52 +0000

I’m curious Joe. Do you hand write all of your code or are you a Dreamweaver guy?

At the moment, I rely on Dreamweaver, but I sincerely hope to drop it and move to handcoding sometime this year. I’m an HTML guy, now who has finally learned CSS in the last six months, but I would eventually like to get into PHP, ASP or ASPNET and being able to run databases. That part, I know I’m a few years from…