alt Hacker NewsI remember in the very first class I ever took on Web Design the teacher spent an entire semester teaching "first principles" of HTML, CSS and JavaScript by writing it in Notepad.
It was only then did she introduce us to the glory that was Adobe Dreamweaver, which (obviously) increased our productivity tenfold.
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> glory that was Adobe Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver was to web development what ...
I just sat here for 5 minutes and I wasn't able to finish that sentence. So I think that's a statement in itself.
I love how people speak about Dreamweaver in the past, while Adobe keeps getting money for it,
https://developer.adobe.com/dreamweaver/
And yes, as you can imagine for the kind of comments I do regarding high level productive tooling and languages, I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.
I miss Dreamweaver. Combining it with Fireworks was a crazy productive combo for me back in the mid 00’s!
My first PHP scripts and games were written using nothing more than Notepad too funnily enough
DreamWeaver absolutely destroyed the code with all kinds of tags and unnecessary stuff. Especially if you used the visual editor. It was fun for brainstorming but plain notepad with clean understandable code was far far better (and with the browser compatibility issues the only option if you were going to production).