Re: Recommended web site programs

[Robert Courtney <bobsc1 -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Ken,

You have some very good advice here. I did hard coding of web pages as
it was needed. Dreamweaver added to much extraneous code that bulked it
up. We had to make clean concise code that could be modified to be fed
into a Java engine to produce the page dynamically.

If you want to be marketable, then you need to have the applications
that employers want. I don't like Flash, but a lot of employers want it.
For me Flash is too heavy and not needed. But, the flashy look seems to
be the genre. You do most of what it does in HTML, but everyone wants Flash.

So, look at what your goal is and what you need. Dreamwaver and Flash
may not be the best to create code, but it's what everyone thinks.

Robert Courtney
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Ken Poshedly wrote:
> Nancy is correct.
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> And from what I've seen, it's pretty much Dreamweaver, although some ads tend to want ability to hard-code as well (which I have done).
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> -- Kenpo
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> If I understand Ken correctly, he's asking what is the most desired, most commonly used tool. Right, Ken?
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> The problem with various free, relatively unknown tools is that they don't get you jobs. If everyone is looking for Dreamweaver, it doesn't matter that you're a wiz with OpenSourceWhoopee.
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> Ken, maybe one way to go about finding this out is to look at web developer jobs on boards like Monster.com. I wonder if you can look at job listings by tool, so you could see how many job listings ask for DreamWeaver, how many ask for OpenSourceWhoopee, and so on.
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> That would give you an idea of which tools are most commonly used and desired by employers. Good luck.
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> --Nancy
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