Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Dreamweaver Compatibility

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Posted by Walter Smith on
Chip, I have used Dreamweaver, and I have built ACS sites, but I haven't combined the two very much.  Part of the reason is probably that I have become less interested in the UI aspects of Web publishing and have gotten more into back-end development.  But it's also because Tcl code (and corresponding SQL) is so liberally intermingled with html in most ACS pages that it becomes more important that your development tool supports coding and debugging tcl than that it provides a lot of wysiwyg formatting and layout functionality.

For simpler html I find it easier to just write the code by hand.  The one way I have used Dreamweaver effectively in ACS development is when I have had a more complex format that I wanted to layout in Dreamweaver and then build my adp/tcl pages on top of the resulting code.

Another factor is that there has not been a fully functioning templating system built into the ACS, although one is currently in the works.