An alternative to Dreamweaver?
I've tried Dreamweaver, and some other programs that I found on the web for maintaining and updating websites with ease, but, to me at least, they're all far too complicated for what I want to do.
For instance, when I want to update the footer on all of the pages on my website, I have to open up each text file (close to 80 of them right now) and copy&paste the updated html. Now, if I were running *nix/linux on a regular basis, I'd simply write a little script to replace text, but unfortunately I have to run Windows for certain software.
So my question is: is there a simple way to find+replace a certain text block on a batch of files in Windows? Maybe there's some little program or some obvious solution I'm overlooking?
Megan posted this at 16:01 — 7th July 2009.
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You can do that in Dreamaweaver. In the find/replace dialog there's an option to search in a folder or in the entire site. Also look into Dreamweaver templates for maintaining consistent layouts.
If you're running a site larger than 80 pages you should look into Content Management systems. There are many, many available and what you use depends on what your specific needs are. If you elaborate more on your site's needs we could probably point you to something that might work for you.
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Greg K posted this at 18:22 — 7th July 2009.
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Even if you don't do a content management system, use some sort of include to include main "chunks"
If you are stuck with most pages being whatever.html, if you are not wanting to change those, there are ways to have web servers process those as PHP as well so you could do a php include.
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webwiz posted this at 22:03 — 7th July 2009.
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If your hosting service allows it, you could use server-side includes (SSI). For an example, see "Including a standard footer" about half-way down this page:
Introduction to Server Side Includes.
Cordially, David
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davecoventry posted this at 10:37 — 15th July 2009.
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Perl?
You can install Perl on windows to do your scripting locally on your local machine. Or if you are using a linux server, run your scripts on the server. A MS server might be able to do this too.
Perl regex is not too hard.
Hell, you could probably write something in QBasic which would do the trick on your local machine.
I once had to change 20,000 AutoCAD drawings and replace a particular phrase in them all. I did it with the combination of a batch script, qbasic and a dwg-to-dxf converter. Worked a treat.
errajshukla posted this at 09:58 — 7th December 2009.
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If you have a lot of links on a page and don't have enough of space to fit them all a simple way to add the links is to create a jump menu. Learn how to create jump menus in Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0.
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chimeara posted this at 04:24 — 21st December 2009.
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i think that's a good alternative programs aside from dream weaver.
yMladenov posted this at 14:58 — 2nd January 2010.
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Before a month or so I was searching for a freeware alternative to Dreamweaver.
Tried out few and I realized that there is a good reason when a tool is mainstream.
Take Photoshop for example.
yMladenov posted this at 14:56 — 2nd January 2010.
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Yeah.
You can use smarty templates. Will take you some time to get used to the syntax of the template system but is well worth it. You can check it out @ smarty.net.
I used to use Dreamweaver templates, but they tend to screw up from time to time, so now I only use it for updating files and coding.
Since I have long lost the hang of PHP (since OOP and MVC kicked in) I always put up a few static pages, or for more than 10-15 pages that must be updated regularly I install Wordpress.
Recently, I read about a superior CMS than Wordpress - Textpattern. I think it is worth checking out. The templates seem to be easier to style and design.
And last - if you are going to stick to Wordpress:
Have fun.
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