My first web page was back around 1994, hand coded, learning HTML by trial and error. In retrospect we had things easy.
That was followed by a number of years of Dreamweaver, a program that worked very, very well for me for some moderately big sites, then later several years of Wordpress based sites because it was fast and easy.
It's time again to upgrade our sites, and what I'm hoping to find is an open-source package that will do what Dreamweaver did, but bring that ease of use into an age of CMS and responsive design. My specific goals are below.
[More after the break.]
Ultimately I guess what I'm looking for is the Holy Grail - a program or application that will let me get something professional up and running fairly fast, then leave lots of room for tweaking and improving any and all aspects of it.
(Score: 2) by Daiv on Monday December 28 2015, @07:36PM
I coded my first web pages in 1997, by trial and error and viewing the sources of Angelfire and Geocities pages.
Dreamweaver 3 was a brilliant leap that allowed me to work in both code and visuals and I loved it. I dabbled until the early 2000's, but had no need afterward. I recently went to look for a Dreamweaver equivalent as my employer uses Microsoft sharepoint with no instructions anywhere and I needed a completely static, but quickly editable reference site for my team as we have information and processes that change daily and weekly. Finding a sea of uselessness, I fell back on HTML/CSS and notepad.exe in Windows. I occasionally need to find how to do something using a web search, but with just a shared drive, I've created a pretty fast reliable tool I tweak daily that people aren't intimidated by and gets used.
Sometimes you gotta go back to the basics if it does what you need.