It's big, has lots of features, but really is designed for coding. Then we come to the 800 pound gorilla of web development, aside from the hand coders. It really is about design rather then code. It is not about hand coding or semantic mark-up and doesn't even do a particularly good job at optimizing for search engines. It offers additional features, more polish, and for all those people caring about the code XHTML 1.0 Strict is the top end of the various code exporting options. Editing images in the program is also a nice bonus.įreeway Pro (279 USD) is indeed a different program the same way Final Cut Express and Pro are different programs. You're insulated from the code and it cares far more about how the web page will look then the code underneath (which is actually pretty good, though just HTML 4 in the Express version). It follows a page layout paradigm similar to Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign. It's decent enough for building a website from scratch, but is better used as the updating tool after you built one using Nvu.įreeway Express (99 USD, 89 USD download version) takes a different approach. Offers all the basics expected but naturally lacks the features and polish of for-money competitors. In this group you have Nvu, Seamonkey, Freeway (Express and Pro), GoLive and Dreamweaver. The WYSIWYG editors are all more expensive and more complex. It has less features then the other template editors but with greater design functionality and flexibility. Goldfish (34.95 USD) is a cross between basic templates (avoids iWeb's large files sizes) and a page layout program. Plus Rapidweaver has been around for a while so it has more polish and a decent plug-in architecture and themes are around for a couple bucks. It's a little more complicated but the basics are easy enough to learn. Rapidweaver (39.95 USD) is a little different. Essentially it fixes iWeb's flaws though it does do a few other things nicely. Sandvox is the upscale version (Standard 49 USD and Pro 79 USD), of iWeb more or less. The pages are large and therefore take a while to load. IWeb (included with iLife '06) looks nice but the code (though it does validate) sucks. Mainly however you just enter your content and go. You can if desired tweak them enough so it's not instantly noticeable as a template from the program. IWeb and Sandvox take the simple template approach, Rapidweaver and Goldfish take a more complex approach but still template based. Plus of course there are text editors for hand coding. Template and WYSIWYG, with the upper end WYSIWYG programs transitioning to some form of hand coding. There are basically 2 ways of approaching a web design program.
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