2000-01-02
WOW ! We are in the year 2000, and still kicking !I have tried as an animal, in the few time frames I´ve had, to come up with some piece of music that could serve as an "Millenium Anthem". Negative. I have just not had enough of time. At those moments when I have been flooded with inspiration, reality have brutally forced itself upon me and I have had to turn to other doings. I have not been beaten though. There will be another anthem at my site, not just yet.
Cool
though, that I´ve kept this site alive for over a year now. I hope it
will remain here for many years to come, and that I always can find inspiration
to improve it.
As I mentioned earlier, so has "Macromedia" given birth to two new web-production
programs. I´m right now busy testing out "Dreamweaver 3" and "Fireworks
3". These two can be bought together in a "Web Studio"-package together
with "Allaire Home Site 4.5" at an reduced price. I´m testing the downloadable
"Try & Buy" versions of both programs, which should functionally be
identical. And I have been using "Allaire Cold Fusion Studio 4.0.1" since
earlier, which is just a beef-uped version of "Home Site". In fact, the
integration with "Dreamweaver" works flawless.
"Dreamweaver 3" is, as you might know, a "WYSIWYG"(what you see is what you get)-based HTML-editor which is particularly focused around layout and design of a web-site. It has been the outstanding choice for designers, for some while now. It is also extensively scalable and ultra-customizable( it´s own inner doings are governed buy pure XML instructions, which you naturally can replace or tweak according to your skill ). The new functions and improvements are numerous under the hood, while the interface is adjusted mildly to the slightly better. As "Dreamweaver" already in earlier versions had countless functions, I won´t discuss all those here. I´ll just mention that the integration with "Fireworks 3" is much tighter, and it´s really easy to insert effects of all kinds into your pages.
"Fireworks 3" is a really competent image-editing program, which is heavily focused on creating web-graphics. So much, that it is probably the best program for that purpose at the moment. Naturally, still there are some things "Photoshop" does better. But "Fireworks" do it much quicker, and you can use your "Photoshop" plug-ins as well. In short: both "Dreamweaver":s and "Firework":s main purpose is to speed up the creative process. And both do the best job on the market on that. Recommended.
2000-01-15