Friday, January 11, 2013

Dream Weaver

Dream Weaver is a web development tool created and published by Adobe for Mac and PC. I have used this tool to develop a website all about voice acting. The site contains about 25 pages of content with 2 or 3 links to external sites with a couple YouTube videos as well.

I think Dream Weaver is a great tool. I like the simplified coding aspect of it. It also has predictive tags which makes it that much easier to develop the page. I recently discovered that it also has templates which makes it even easier to develop the site. It allows for a more professional looking site without doing so much coding work. One of my favorite features that it provides is the ability to automatically update all the links to the entire website if you change something on the original template. If you've made a mistake on the original template and based most of the site on that flawed template, it would usually entail having to go through every page and making the necessary changes. Fortunately, using the template feature, you can make the change on the original template and Dream Weaver will update all the links and make all the changes to all the other pages automatically.

The only thing that I don't like about Dream Weaver is the amount of training it takes in order to learn how to use it. It takes quite a bit of training in order to be able to use the tool effectively. Of course, that is the case with many new software today but there are other programs that are much simpler in their navigation and usage. Aside from that, the program is very efficient and a great development tool.


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