any allow flash/dreamweaver?

[juno]

ok. i'm completley new to this -hence my "junior member" status.
Teaching myself flash + dreamweaver and want to put it to use. P'raps this is a completley naive question, but do any of the free web hosts allow you to "publish" your dreamweaver / flash experiments???

+ is being mac a problem??



[Edited by juno on 04-05-2001 at 03:32 PM]

[Canuckkev]

Pretty much any host should be able to do this. By "Publish", does this mean using some sort of built in upload method? Or do you mean just uploading? And being on a mac makes no dif on the web.

[grex]

Juno,

Not like MS Frontpage that needs server extensions.

Dreamweaver will do to any host. You will not have any problem at all.

Good luck. :)

[Chris]

You do need Ftp, though.

[grex]

FTP will be better. Dreamweaver is built to use this feature.

But, You still can publish your html other files via browser if the host does not provide FTP account.

Dreamweaver generates plain htm or html files, that is why it works with both ways. :)

[Coolin]

Dreamweaver creates HTML files, which are used with every host. Flash has a .swf extension and most hosts support it. Try asking the hosting if they support flash before you host with them.

[Gayowulf]

Make sure you know how to use Dreamweaver fairly well before you "publish" any of your pages. It makes a diference in the quality of your site.

[LeX]

I still say Dreamweaver sucks...

...or are we talking about making flashy movies here?

[Coolin]

Originally posted by LeX
I still say Dreamweaver sucks...Dreamweaver is the best WYSIWYG editor out there. The HTML it produces is very clean, unlike Frontpage's. The features found in Dreamweaver are abundant. For a quick page, Dreamweaver is number 1.

[RedHat]

I agree with Coolin, dreamweaver is the best !
Not only for quick pages, dreamweaver si the best for any site.
Probably the best editor ever made ...

[gyrbo]

Just got flash 5 and dreamweaver 4 from a friend. When I first started, it was like: cool. But then I found out how hard the program is. Anybody knows how to work with it? Gee, even adjusting the size of a table is difficult!

An that flash 5: whoow, worked with the demo of 4. Like 4 better. Way easier!

[cowax]

Who needs Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg prog for that matter when you know html? Coding is a whole lot better :)

I agree, Flash 5 isnt as friendly as Flash 4.

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by cowax
Who needs Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg prog for that matter when you know html? Coding is a whole lot better :)

I agree, Flash 5 isnt as friendly as Flash 4.
I agree totally, but it IS a lot of work to code everything by hand...

BTW anybody knows how to downgrade flash 5?

[Coolin]

Originally posted by cowax
Who needs Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg prog for that matter when you know html? Coding is a whole lot better :)I have coded HTML for quite a while, and consider myself sort of good at this area. I still find, however, Dreamweaver to be very good. I still do a lot of handcoding in Dreamweaver and find it to be sort of an instant preview. You can also click on any place on the website and be directed to its place in the HTML instantly. Also, clicking "Insert>Table" is much easier than typing in all those lines of code, and the resulting HTML is exactly the same.

[Coolin]

Also, in response to the first question. Being on a Mac isn't a problem, if your host uses a web page to upload a file, then use it. If it uses FTP, there are many Mac FTP programs out there.

[AlabamaMan]

Dreamweaver is not the best anymore
Check out this program. It works very good, consumes much less resources than DW does. Im going to buy it when the demo is expired.
http://www.namo.com/

[grex]

Hm..

I like using notepad to create html files for my websites or even for my clients.

Then someday, I tried to use Frontpage, Dreamweaver, GoLive and NetObjects Fusion.

If we talk about the best WISIWYG programs out there, I will pick NetObjects Fusion.

But again, in my experience...all of them sometimes messes up your layout. Specially when you have to integrate html files to them.

Cheers

[cowax]

I use 1st page 2000 because it's very easy to use it for html and cgi scripts...

I took a class in school in desktop publishing and webpage design for an easy A and we had to use netscape composer (YacK!)

[Cracker]

Originally posted by grex
Hm..

I like using notepad to create html files for my websites or even for my clients.


I, too, don't like WYSIWYG editors. All of the pages of my website in my sig were created using 100% pure Windows Notepad.

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by Cracker

Originally posted by grex
Hm..

I like using notepad to create html files for my websites or even for my clients.


I, too, don't like WYSIWYG editors. All of the pages of my website in my sig were created using 100% pure Windows Notepad.

If you don't use complicated tables and stuff like that, notepad is good. But I make use of nested tables and frames. Then it's hard to make all the tables with hand.

[LeX]

I hate WYSIWYG editors... I make everything by myself. To help me with my coding, I use EditPlus 2, color-codes everything and numbers the lines too. Plus there's this sorta built-in browser (integrates your default browser).

Tables are easy once you find out how to use <TD>'s. Pretty tricky stuff. I only figured out how to work those damn <TD>'s half a year ago, but now it's cool.