RE: GoLive vs. Dreamweaver

Subject: RE: GoLive vs. Dreamweaver
From: Mailing List <mlist -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com>
To: "'jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com'" <jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:03:54 -0500

jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com [mailto:jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com] said:

> Funny, but I'd strongly recommend GoLive if you are worried more about
> designing pages, including interactivity. If you need
> compatability/integration with PhotoShop, Illustrator, and/or
> InDesign,
> then GoLive's the way to go. Too, on the Macintosh OS, GoLive
> is easier to
> use than Dreamweaver, IMO.

I assume that the discussion has been about web stuff, but
what about authoring WebHelp?

I recently started using RoboHelp X4.1 to create WebHelp
for our product that is used with multiple operating systems.
One of the first things that I heard on the HATT mailing
list was:

"Of course, nobody uses the built-in WYSIWYG editor in
RoboHelp. Everybody uses DreamWeaver or some other
powerful HTML publishing tool instead."

But nobody has seen fit to lay out a point-by-point
comparison of the advantages and disadvantages.

If/when our graphics/design guy leaves, I'll inherit his
copy of DreamWeaver. Not sure how much use I'll have for
it...

Is DreamWeaver or GoLive (or any of the others) capable
of selectively creating/publishing output based on
conditional settings? RH lets you mark content (or entire
topic pages) with user-definable Condition Tags, which
are then used to either include or exclude the marked
material from output. I've already come to rely on that
capability.

I know you can code all kinds of tests/conditions/selections
in the page that an end-user sees, so that different things
happen depending on what the user does, but the conditional
settings that RH provides are more like what FrameMaker
does -- they are compile-time choices that control the
appearance of the published web pages.

I'd like to hear from somebody who's using DW or GoLive or
other tool to create Help (specifically WebHelp).

/kevin




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