Well the title is the questions really.
I want to redo my site more pro, and would like to do it myself. What would a typical building timescale be from start to completion using this?
And does anyone know any useful sites that may help?
Has anyone used dreamweaver and not like it / had any problems?


thanks
chris

I've only just started looking at it, it seems to be one of those programs where you can can use it's basics feature almost right away, and then you develop more complicated and skilled options as you use it more. I havn't used it for much yet but i'm going to start using it heavily soon so i'll let you know how i get on.

I use a combination of programs. Kinda dreamweaver/Microsoft Frontpage. I'm used to the Office style (yeah Microsoft sucked me in). But maybe just type in Dreamweaver For Dummies (lol) up in google. you probably will find something to help.

Nothing wrong with FronPage if u can get rid of the crapcode part from what I see. For me Dreamweaver is easier but FP seems faster for some reason!

Took me a month to learn basic Dreamweaver but I guess it depends on the learner.

dreamweaver is easy... didn't take more than a week to master it.
ofcourse i knew HTML and PHP very well before hand..
lets see... it depends how big your site is and how much work it needs...
and also how much time you can put into redesigning your site..
maybe if you tell me all this i can tell you how much time it will take.
can you tell ur website's URL?

I'm a hard-coder, myself. I use Dreamweaver to generate sample sites very quickly. What is nice about DW is the little "properties box" that allows you to go through your options very quickly. Master using the properties box and you will be flying through your site creation in no time at all.

The built-in FTP client leaves a little to be desired, but all-in-all the software is pretty easy to use.

Here's a quick tip....

Make a simple site in DW. Your pages are HOME, ABOUT THIS SITE, CONTACT, and LINKS. Design your HOME page, save it as index.htm, then Save As ABOUT.htm. Make changes to the page that turn it into your ABOUT THIS SITE page, save it as about.htm, then Save As contact.htm. Change the page to reflect your contact info, save it, then Save As links.htm. Change the page so it has a few links on it, save it, then create a menu with the names of all the pages (with links). Copy the entire menu, open up each page you created and paste the menu on each page. Check it out! In about 10 minutes you have an entire sample site with uniform pages and a uniform menu!

Okay, this is sort of a lame lesson, but I never said this was a tutorial, just a tip. But that is really how easy it is to design a site in Dreamweaver. Once you have a few pages, you can go through the Menu bar and try all kinds of things.

Good luck!

I've found it very easy so far, but you may need to just take a look at a few tutorials while using it. My site looks a whole lot better now. If you want a professional look then this is the program for you. I also looked at frontpage but i didn't like it much.

I use dreamweaver and find it very useful, especial when it colour codes your php code. Which makes it much easy to find simple mistakes in your php code.

Dreamweaver for a "professional look"?Dreamweaver is useful but only when you must finish a work very quickly and you are far from the end, when you have to create and administrate a big site, that receives a lot of visits and need update you have to write yourself the code and know very well how to write HTML in each editor, so when you need to update or fix a bug you can use a simple editor like VI that can be reached via ssh and remote login...and FrontPage generates a code worse than my mother's one....

Dreamweaver is pretty easy to use, it help you complete command automatically,
Quite cool but the loading time for the application is quite slow on my computer.

I would prefer to use textpad to do my editing, it is a lot faster cos it is a light program. It is quite fexible too!