Christine Gonzales
Assignment: Ch.6 Creating a Web Page
CRN 10061
July 12, 2009
Web Page Editors
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 has many features that has
enhanced their performance in creating professional-looking web pages. The overall top features
are: Live View, cross-product integration,
comprehensive CSS support, intergrated coding, support for leading
technologies, FLV support, learning resources, code navigator, cross-platform support, advanced JavaScript
functionality. With the Live View
feature, users are able to see their real webpage as they design
it. The Code Navigator feature allows the developers to see
all the code sources including the CSS rules, Dreamweaver templates and
other source files. The Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks allows users to create codes for Dreamweaver CS4.
One of the limitations of Dreamweaver is its
inability to handle multiple server behaviors. It can only do
simple, single record inserts, updates and deletions at any one
time. Dreamweaver can only be used to develop the simplest of web
site applications. It also has difficulty managing multiple
records at once. The code which is generated is inefficient and
does not reuse anything. There are also cases when the developer
edits the code to streamline, but Dreamweaver is unable to recognize
its own code.
Microsoft FrontPage
Some of the features of FrontPage which I like
includes the 'Single Page Publishing' which allows users to publish
only the content that they want and the 'Cross-browser Enhanced Drawing
Tools.' The drawing tools inlcude AutoShapes, WordArt and Drawing
Canvass. It also has the 'Language Setup' feature which
allows the users to setup work in different languages. The
'Automatic Live Content' allows users to add live content from
third-party providers such as MSNBC headlines and weather forecasts,
Expedia maps and Fast Counter. Another interesting feature of
FrontPage is the 'Discussion Board' feature which allows the creation
of a newsgroup-style discussion board and invite members to add
information to the discussion board.
The limitations of Microsoft FrontPage is the
possible inability to handle the web size. When a searchable
event is present such as 'Search,' and 'Discussion Forum,'
FrontPage connection may time-out. Due to the long process of
updating the indices of these functions, HTTP 500 error may
occur. Another limitation is the 'Disk Usage.' On UNIX
accounts, users can create and publish as many child webs as the disk
storage allows. But on Windows accounts, the user could not
create more than five child webs. Technical problems may occur
with the website.
KompoZer
KompoZer is another webpage editor that includes various features. It
combines an easy to use web page editor with a simple file management
system. With the FTP site manager, KompoZer users have a browsing area they can look at that contains others files created previously. The new color picker
lets users change the colors on their webpage. While working with
several documents at once, users are able to have access them
through the Tabs! feature. The CSS editor allows users to add style to their document and view the modifications right away. With the dash of style, users can set the style properties for their webpage. The Customizable toolbars lets users choose the buttons they want on their toolbar. KompoZer also has a feature called Cleaner markup that erases any unwanted <br> to make the document looking clean. If users wanted to add links, the XFN feature allows them to do just that. When working with tables, the Table/Cell resizing rulers feature lets users adjust the size of the tables.
Kompozer has some limitatons. While Kompozer
is allowing you to edit the raw HTML of your webpages, the program it
creates is formatted with so much white space and irregular line
breaks. It is difficult to read and insert more than a few lines
of code in the program. The code indention is messed up and it
takes a lot of developer time to clean the code.
