Coda vs. Dreamweaver

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I’ve recently abandoned Dreamweaver as my primary web development platform. I know what you are thinking, “what took you so long?” Well, the truth of the matter is, I think Dreamweaver gets a bad wrap, just because of the WYSYWIG stigma. Frankly, I rarely if ever, was using the Design view in Dreamweaver and I… Read more »

Adobe MAX 2007

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I’m at Adobe MAX this week. I’m currently sitting in the sneak peek session and blogging it with my phone (so forgive any typos or misunderstandings). Out of over 600 entries, the MAX award’s people’s choice was given to eBay Desktop. Now for the sneaks: Adobe Visual Communicator is new to Adobe. We all got… Read more »

RubyWeaver is alive!

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RubyWeaver is an IDE for Ruby and Rails in Dreamweaver. This extension originally came from RidingTheClutch.com which seems to have mysteriously disappeared, along with it’s original author Rob Cameron whom I have tried to contact with regards to RubyWeaver, but with no avail. I’ve taken the liberty to make this extension available once again to… Read more »

Dreamweaver Design View not working on certain filetypes

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I use Dreamweaver for editing Ruby on Rails files, Velocity files, and other files that don’t have native support but that do have extensions available in order to use with DW. Although after installing said extensions these file types open fine, have proper code coloring, etc., I’ve had the problem that they don’t open in… Read more »

Clean Up Word HTML with Dreamweaver

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I recently received a rather lengthy and somewhat elaborate MS Word document, which I was asked to convert to HTML for uploading to a 3rd party’s website. My first instinct was to save the Word document as HTML and use Dreamweaver’s "Clean Up Word HTML" Command. But not only did I have to leave it… Read more »