“What I’ve got, how I choose it, how I got it, why I think I need it and what I know about how to use it”

I’ve got Dreamweaver- “Probably the best web design software in World” please can someone define what “best” in this context means?

how I choose it and how I got it – I’ll roll these in to one. Dreamweaver is, as far as I know,  the industry standard web design package. It’s got all the bells, whistles and knobs to everything the most dedicated web/phone app designer could possibly need. It is vastly more than what I need, however I’m on a project to learn and skill myself for the future. 

I had the Adobe CS2 package this was after working my way up “Pagemaker” running on Windows 2.0, if I remember right, around 20 years ago.  Having missed out on the upgrade to CS3 I made the decision to shell out the £2k ish to get upgrade to the Master CollectionCS4. Exceedingly expensive for some one just starting out but I use InDesign, Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator, After Effects on a commercial basis and Flash on a thirty day trial that had just run out.  The Adobe Master Collection CS4 comes with the upgrade to all the software I use and all the Web publishing software, DreamWeaver included.

Why I think I need it –Quite simply I don’t  need it. Not for now anyway, I’m sure I could achieve what I need for iDoStuff with cheaper, easier software.  The ulteria motive is to constantly drag myself and my skills to a valuable level. I’ve got another 20 years until retirement and the future is on-line.

What I know about how to use it – Anyone got a postage stamp for me to write this on. It was a couple weeks ago that I made home page so by now, I’ll have forgotten how I did what I did. So far I’ve:

• set up the FTP and uploaded and updated content
• pulled up a template added some content and saved it
• Fiddled with the CSS. – WOW advanced stuff
• made text links
• added a graphic.

Things I need to figure out next,

• Now to structure the site and contents locally, within Dreamweaver and on the server
• How to create and use templates for additional pages

That will keep me busy for a while but I recognise, having the structures in place now is a good “stitch in time”.