Dreamweaver is probably the closest thing you’ll find to a true WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML generator. Macromedia Dreamweaver has long been a favorite authoring tool among Web designers, especially when coupled with the company’s Fireworks graphics program. The short answer to all this is: Now may not be the best time to be tied to Microsoft. In our current economic climate, that might be a hard sell to make to a client.
NET promises to greatly change Web development on Planet Microsoft and ensures a whole round of software updates for those who plan to implement it. It could either be a huge success or a colossal flop-it’s too early to tell. Second, there is the matter of Microsoft’s. I’m simply stating a commonly held assumption by many in our industry, a situation that some find troublesome. I’m not indicting Microsoft for this it’s in any company’s best interest to do business this way. Whether it’s SQL Server, Internet Information Server, or Transaction Server, Microsoft products all tend to play nicer with each other than with similar products from other vendors. First, to make the most of an application created with it, a developer typically must be running a set of Microsoft applications on the back end. The downside to Visual Studio is twofold. It is certainly capable of turning out impressive Web applications. For better or worse, Microsoft’s development tools focus on making things as easy as possible for the developer, and Interdev is no exception. With Microsoft Visual Studio‘s Visual Interdev tool, you get a first-class application development studio. Visual Studio: Cloudy future, steep requirements Tell us what you think by posting to the discussion: Did we miss something, or was there just a lot of confusion? Is there a Web development tool out there that a lot of our members are using that wasn’t in that poll, or is there a conceptual problem with the term “Web development tool”? By that, we meant tools that developers use to build Web-based applications, not Web-authoring tools such as FrontPage. We don’t like mysteries here at TechRepublic, and the predominance of “Other” responses to our poll seemed strange to us.
Puzzlingly, the most popular answer to our poll question was “Other,” which earned 34 percent of the votes: But first, we’ve got some “Other” business to resolve. In this article, I’ll peer into my crystal ball and take a closer look at those two tools and attempt to predict what’s in the future for each. You also had an affinity for Microsoft Visual Studio, which received 19 percent of the vote. According to the results, one-third of our members liked Macromedia Dreamweaver above all else. We recently asked our members to name their favorite Web development tool in a TechRepublic Quick Poll. When it comes to Web development, you don’t want to fall behind the technology curve, and you want the best tool available for the job. Take a look at why Macromedia is poised to lead while Microsoft has troubled waters ahead. When it comes to picking a Web development tool, you don't want to start with a Ferrari and wind up with an Edsel.