Dreamweaver.. ARGH!!

[Talisman]

[high]* Talisman discards all caffeinated products from the developers' lounge and puts on a pot of herbal tea.
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Ahh, that's better. <takes sip> There's nothing like Camomille for soothing the nerves.

Thanks, Revan, for answering Michael's original question, btw ... lol.

I'm no great designer/programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but I use both TextPad and Dreamweaver. Personally, I like them both because they're so different. It really just depends on what I'm doing at the time, how complicated the work is, or how impatient I am to get in and out quickly. One works better for some things while the other is best suited for other tasks.

Sometimes my computer forgets its file associations and Notepad or Wordpad pops up for some reason. Usually, it's easier to go ahead with the change that way than it is to close that and open up something else.

I've heard really good things about EditPlus, too, so I plan to give that a try sometime soon, too.

[breathwork]

<a href="http://www.ultraedit.com" target="_blank">ultraedit</a> - that's the job..............................

[Noiz Pollution]

Originally Posted by Revan

Hah well see thats work to be done in the aftermath of the coding, ye?
And <br> to <br /> is just one of many examples. Dya think Notepad saves you time if you have to convert:
* <br> to <br />
* <input> to <input />
* <img> to <img alt="" />
et cetera

If you're using a template system for your site then editting them with notepad will make those changes for you no problem find and replace for <br>/<br /> and just find for the rest and change them manually. Bingo, whole site updated

If you're not using a template system you either a. have a small site and the changes will be reasonably easy or b. have a large site and you've got a lot of work to do!

[Revan]

Originally Posted by 662C

If you're using a template system for your site then editting them with notepad will make those changes for you no problem find and replace for <br>/<br /> and just find for the rest and change them manually. Bingo, whole site updated

If you're not using a template system you either a. have a small site and the changes will be reasonably easy or b. have a large site and you've got a lot of work to do!

Mate thats what I said, manually find-and-replace'ing all the XHTML stuff you didnt remember at the typing of the code is NOT time saving compared to having it done automatically as you type
Im not too worried as I use a php nav script I made myself, that allows me to have 3 files of HTML and rest is dyncamically included

[inverted]

This thread got WAY off topic, whoc ares who likes dreamweaver and who doesn't? why is everyone using a forum to argue personal preferences.

ANYWAY. i'm a moron and i used dreamweaver to mod a hack and it screwed everythign up. can anyone explain how to edit the files to UNDO whatever dreamweaver F*KD up or do i have to erase and reinstall my wh0ole damn site? of course, i didn't backup the files, well, i did, but they're corrupted now too... i've been trying so many things and messed up all my copies... can i edit the files and fix the crap dreamweaver did?

dreamweaver is the devil.

- inverted

bleh, i fixed it, i just started over with functions.php and added all the hacks i have back from scratch. but to continue the question, is there a way to fix the errors dreamweaver produces???

[Reeve of shinra]

I don't know for sure, but I think it has to do with the way functions.php was originally saved.

If you open up the file in regular text pad, the code is all garbled up. Dreamweaver screws up when interpreting those line breaks where other programs do not.

The only other time I saw something like that was when I opened a file that was saved in unix format.

(using win xp btw).

I hope this helps but the easy answer is not use dreamweaver to edit that file.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

I don't know for sure, but I think it has to do with the way functions.php was originally saved.

If you open up the file in regular text pad, the code is all garbled up. Dreamweaver screws up when interpreting those line breaks where other programs do not.

The only other time I saw something like that was when I opened a file that was saved in unix format.

(using win xp btw).

I hope this helps but the easy answer is not use dreamweaver to edit that file.

Dreamweaver makes " corrections " to the code when you save it, and therein lies the problem.

[Revan]

Originally Posted by inverted

is there a way to fix the errors dreamweaver produces???

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

If you open up the file in regular text pad, the code is all garbled up. Dreamweaver screws up when interpreting those line breaks where other programs do not.

The only other time I saw something like that was when I opened a file that was saved in unix format.

(using win xp btw).

I hope this helps but the easy answer is not use dreamweaver to edit that file.

Originally Posted by Zachery

Dreamweaver makes " corrections " to the code when you save it, and therein lies the problem.

Are you people ignoring my messages, just being plain dumb f*cks or a combination of the above?

Originally Posted by Revan

Edit -> Preferences -> Code Rewriting
Either uncheck it all, or exclude .php and .php3 files from such rewriting

If I have to repeat this ONE more time because of some narrow sighted dumb sh*t, Im going to hunt you all down and do something very violent and messy..... :ninja:

[Colin F]

Originally Posted by Revan

Are you people ignoring my messages, just being plain dumb f*cks or a combination of the above?

If I have to repeat this ONE more time because of some narrow sighted dumb sh*t, Im going to hunt you all down and do something very violent and messy..... :ninja:

Try to keep it a bit more civilised please

[inverted]

uhm, is there an iggy bin in vb3.0.3??? if so, i got my first...

:T