[Ryan]

Mike: Your question doesn't make sense. Basic web would be done using HTML and note pad. Dreamweaver is a pro level development tool. Plus NOTHING done in dreamweaver can't be done in notepad, its just faster.

Most classes I've seen at least start with DreamWeaver.  It's not that it can't be taught using a text editor, it's just that most people are used to the concept of a word processor and that gives them a starting point.  Looking at a program that looks like Word that they use every day is less intimidating than looking at a Notepad screen full of HTML.

What actually got me started coding in a text editor was Front Page.  Usually a page wouldn't look quite right so I'd have to go in and edit the HTML.  It happened often enough that I finally gave up on FP and just started doing it myself. 

It all boils down to personal preference.  For me it's easier to write straight HTML and stay out of the WYSIWYG editors.  Plus I'm OCD enough that I don't like giving up the control on how my code is formatted.  For others they are used to DreamWeaver or NVU and use those programs. 

Of course if the assignment is to "do this in DreamWeaver" than the discussion is moot 

[Ginnypenny]

I don't use programs because I don't want to buy them.  Besides I do a lot of my web designing here at work, every computer has notepad.  I just get into my ftp file, take out the page I am working on and open it in notepad.  I am limited because I can't do anything graphically here at work, no photoshop.

for the record, my boss knows I work on my webpages and do other non-work stuff all day.... we have a job like that.

[Mike Hodgson]

I know one thing, I certainly will not waste my time on making web pages, I'll leave that to others.
I'll just do what I know.   

[Ginnypenny]

Do you have a webpage?  Who does it for you?  What do you pay?
I don't like paying for anything (don't get the wrong idea, I obey copyright laws, I just like to do things myself).

[Mike Hodgson]

I just use smugmug and other sites for now. Why pay?  haha
My brother is the geek when it comes to stuff like this, so, I'll have him do it for me. He likes doing all that kind of work.

[Ginnypenny]

well you are lucky.

[Mike Hodgson]

Wait, I lied, I do have the professional part of it on smugmug, 50 something bucks a year. Sorry about that.   

[BobEdens]

I just use smugmug and other sites for now. Why pay?  haha
My brother is the geek when it comes to stuff like this, so, I'll have him do it for me. He likes doing all that kind of work.

Read SmugMugs TOS before you post anything else there. Same with flickr and the others. SOme say they have the right to use any photo you upload for any reason they want.

So Mike, why ask the question if you were going to get your brother to do your homework anyway?
***Grinning, Ducking and Running***

[Mike Hodgson]

He's too far to do it, I need someone closer. hahaha

[Marian Murdoch]

I have paid people in the past to create websites for me. The going rate for a simple 3-4 page site is about $500-700.

[Ginnypenny]

I have paid people in the past to create websites for me. The going rate for a simple 3-4 page site is about $500-700.

I am in the wrong business.  LOL, j/k, I hate designing websites, I will stick to photographing people, they are more fun to work with than coding all day.

[Ryan]

That's the same thought line that makes people think "hey, I can make $500 a day shooting weddings."

My problem is I really like designing websites.  Ultimately I'd like to be about 50/50 photography & web design. 

[Ginnypenny]

ha ha, that's funny.