Do you code?

[kev woodman]

I'm just curious.

So does everyone hand-code and if you do code what do you code in? If you don't, do you use a WYSIWYG editor or pre-built components?

Do you think there are advantages/disadvantages to the way you work?

OK, maybe I'm trying to kickstart a debate

Just for the record then - I hand code xhtml and a couple of programming languages and I think the advantages are obvious

[Pumazooma]

I'm self taught in dreamweaver and css. I can make a page, but nothing flash just yet. I know a little bt of HTML and an ever smaller bit of php

Most have been learnt because I got lumbered doing things for work. The boss wanted the works website remade and said he thought I'd like to try so I learnt how to do css in about 2 weeks and didn't do too bad a job

Being half decent at photoshop helps too.

[Administrator]

Well..

My ways of coding depend on what is liked by Search Engines. I prefer CSS and hand made designs in CSS to attract search engines. embedding text in images is bad idea and one needs to get out of that habbit.

Text in images may look attractiv but that makes huge loss of potential traffic.

[kev woodman]

So that's three up for hand-coding so far

Will no-one step in to defend Dreamweaver, ImageReady, Nvu etc?

[Pumazooma]

I don't have a problem with dreamweaver. It's very good at what it does and allows novices to make half decent web pages to get them started. You don't need to know all of the functions to start a site off. I think you need to learn something extra like css or flash to move up to the next level though.

[kev woodman]

Don't get me wrong - I like Dreamweaver as an IDE (the editor is based on the old Homesite editor which is lovely) but I think it's widely abused.

When set up correctly DW produces pretty good code (unlike e.g. Frontpage) but to produce a site which is really standards compliant you are still going to need to know HTML/CSS.

HTML is particularly easy to learn, and would save you the hundreds of pounds that DW costs, and which novices seem to have suspisciously little trouble finding .

[Administrator]

DreamWeaver is always going to remain my first love for coding. Nothing can beat DreamWeaver for high level development.

[kev woodman]

Interesting....what do you mean by 'high level development'?

[Administrator]

High level development => developing dynamic modules and php pages using dreamweaver. Highly technical stuff rather than static pages.

[kev woodman]

I've not used DW as a programming IDE as I work mainly in C# or Java and there are specialist apps available. Perhaps I'll give it a go though.

I was thinking that perhaps you meant enterprise level stuff and that would really have surprised me.

[talkwebz]

high develpment works looks pretty difficult. lol i like using portals not designing one of them

[kev woodman]

Well development is pretty easy to get into using a few different technologies now with PHP/MySQL being the most popular. The original post though concerned coding, that could be HTML/XHTML not necessarily server-side stuff.

Sooo the question remains - do you code?