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francescotacconi
francescotacconi
Inspiring
February 17, 2017
Question

Impossible to manage code with Dreamweaver. Just a communication.

  • February 17, 2017
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Hi,

I'm building a new site and I'm making it with Bloc application.

You can see here Home  what I made up till now, it's incomplete, I'm just at the beginning and showing to the customer different layouts in the same page to make easier his choices.

In order to customize the pre made Blocs code I tried to open the site with Dreamweaver, but Dreamweaver just freezes and stop working immediately.

So I bought Coda and installed, with Coda the site is very quick and fast to manage, this page opens immediately and every css or html change appears immediately in the preview window.

I've seen in the past that even when building sites from scratch with Dreamweaver the app is slow and heavy for the OS. I'm sorry but I've been very surprised by Coda and I find it amazing.

I won't stop my CC subscription but I hope to hear very soon some good news that fix the Dreamweaver heavy slowness.

Best regards.

Francesco

PS. I'm working on an iMac late 2014, 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB MHz DDR3 ram on Mac OsX 10.12.3

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    osgood_
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    Problem with Coda is I think it is 'dead' software. Panic have not updated it in some time and there seems to be no forward guidance as to what it's long term future is. It still uses the old webkit browser engine for live view which doesn't support Flex. Plugins are old and a not up-to-date as the web moves forward fast.

    Disappointing really as Coda has the basis of being a really nice OS application BUT I think Brackets and Atom has possibly killed it off or at least making the sofwtare company re-think its road map.

    francescotacconi
    francescotacconiAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2017

    Thank you a lot Osgood, your informations are really precious to me, I don't know nor Brackets neither Atom, but now I'm gonna look for them. In your opinion wich one is better than the other?

    Thank you again

    francescotacconi
    francescotacconiAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2017

    francescotacconi  wrote

    Thank you Osgood, you saved my time and avoid me to look for nothing.

    Anyway I don't think I'll stop using Dreamweaver, but I wonder what you use. No Coda, no Brackets, no Atom, uhm, so, can you tell me your secret app?

    I use 'php storm' BUT don't go there, its a heavy IDE for serious coders. Most of my websites are php/mysql database driven so 'php storm' fits in well with my workflow as it has mysql management right inside the coding environment but its slightly slower than any of the other editors I mentioned and is a huge, huge memory hog. But once its up and running I dont notice a great deal of difference and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for me personally.

    I'll probably be back with DW at some stage as I do like the visual environemnt to use for quick navigating around the code, which in a code only editor can be frustrating and time consuming. DW does a pretty good job compared to all the other editors I've tested. They all suffer some kind of failure, certainly none are perfect.


    Thank you again Osgood

    I'd probably use only Dreamweaver if only it was lighter and let me manage all sort of code without slowing or freezing.

    I hope that in the future Adobe wil fix this issue, I think that the problem is all in the live view that now is always working and in my case is not able to manage 2 background movies at once.

    Bye and thank you, you have been very kind.

    pziecina
    pziecina
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    As this is a user to user forum, it would be better if you posted your observations as a bug -

    https://dreamweaver.uservoice.com/

    francescotacconi
    francescotacconiAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 17, 2017

    That's quite funny, I searched a lot for the official Dreamweaver forum and I landed in the user to user. Maybe it's me, maybe not. Anyway thank you very much indeed.

    pziecina
    pziecina
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    It's not you.

    I know of 4 different ways to post feedback about Dw at the moment, and getting a reply from any of them, is slower than sending a letter to Mars, and waiting for a reply.

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