St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

I love stories like this they make me good to feel that I’m not the only one to screw up. And to tell the truth I’ve never screwed up this bad! Google said that it accidentally deleted its corporate blog Monday night, causing a short-term outage.

Overall DreamWeaverMX 2004 is a great product, but definetly not worth an upgrade from DreamWeaverMX . There are very few differences. However if your a serious Web Designer DreamWeaverMX or DreamWeaverMX 2004 is a definite must for your toolbox. It is most definitely the most productive, flexible, stable and expandable web design software on the market. It’s one of the least expensive too!

Made by Macromedia, DreamWeaverMX gives you a excellent code view editor or WYSIWYG environment. It comes with a standard library of JavaScript “Behaviors” that5 you can attach directly to page element (like images). It also has a repository of “snippets” (bits and pieces of code written in any language, stored in plain text form), that is as easy as “copy and paste” to add your own snippets to, so you can reuse them later.

Macromedia’s DreamWeaverMX 2004 (and all previous versions) works well with all web programming languages, databases, CSS, AJAX, and it’s environment is designed to work with any technology that isn’t developed yet.

That may change now that their competitor, Adobe, has bought Macromedia. They have a far inferior software called “Go Live” that you don’t really want to even try to use much less pay over a thousand dollars for.

Other web page editing and creation software:

• Microsoft Front Page: It’s inexpensive, easy to use (for the basics only), and with very complicated processes you can embed other microsoft Office technologies into web pages. The bad news, it hates non-microsoft technology like flash, java, PHP, mySQL etc etc etc. If you don’t know how to make web pages from by writing HTML in a plain text editor, then you should hire someone. But if you must dive headfirst into a very complicated process you know nothing about, this software is for you. And one more thing, it only works on windows and most of the web pages it out puts only work on windows and Internet Explorer (which will alienate at least 20% of your viewers).
• Net Object’s Fusion: You really want to avoid this software. It’s very complicated to make the most basic pages and anything extra, well, costs extra. It also says it lets you write your own code and scripts, but it usually doesn’t.

Great news for Web Designers any way you look at it! The only thing the Federal Election Commission will regulate is paid political advertising, and they won’t be regulating how much candidates can spend, just where the money they spend it comes from.¹ As far as what can be said by whom and how and./or if it is coordinated, there won’t be any regulation at all. ²

Not only is this a victory for free speech, but it could be a commercial boon for American based web designers and hosting companies.

Most of my clients who are using blogs set up by me are using the WordPress blogging system. They’ve come up with a couple upgrades. One upgrade is all about Security, the other upgrade is all about usability and bug fixes. I will be upgrading several clients’ blogs as well as this one. Backups will be made first of course.