msmith_lv wrote
I'm hoping one of you veterans can point me in a direction. I'm doing pretty well building sites using the core modules, after having used Dreamweaver MX for web applications (I'm not a programmer, but can find my way around code when necesary). But I'm not seeing how to do anything beyond what's in the module functionality. For example, I want to make a popup window that runs a little javascript routine. I tried putting the script in a Text/HTML module (in HTML mode), but the script would not run. Then I tried making a separate HTML file with the script, but the script would not upload, even though I had added 'htm' and 'html' to the allowed file types in the Host Settings.
I'm totally enthusiastic about DNN, but obviously I'm not getting some fundamental difference between how the DNN model works vs. developing with ASP in Dreamweaver. Can anyone suggest a book or website or some other resource to help me over this hump?
Thanks, and long live open source!
Using dreamweaver for any DotNetNuke development will be quite difficult; however it could be possible. and sometimes beneficial.
If your purpose for using dreamweaver is to capitalize on the pre-existing experience that you have; being able to limit what you'll have to learn in VisualStudio.... you might as well scrap that idea, it's not going to work.
If your purpose for using dreamweaver is to capitalize on capabilities of dreamweaver that are more friendly and faster to work with than Visual Studios... This may work.
What I'm getting at is the *only* way that you're going to learn how to use dreamweaver to do a decent amount of your development work is to first learn Visual Studios; get to know Visual Studios to the point of understanding it and various technologies. Make sure that you understand the client languages (html, css, javascript) on the code side of things, and that you're not using dreamweaver to avoid learning how the code work - but instead use dreamweaver to do what you could do manually but its faster to do using dreamweaver.
I know that if you're not very familiar with Visual Studios, that this is not what you wanted to hear - but when it comes to the custom development side of things; it's something you're going to need to do; after you have a better understanding of VS, you'll find yourself identifying how you could use dreamweaver to speed up certain aspects.
Dreamweaver will not be able to replace visual studios completely, you'll continue to use VS for your codebehinds and use dreamweaver for the aspx pages (or parts of them)... if you decide to use dreamweaver you'll find yourself always having both applications open and doing a number of cut-and-pasting.
Visual Studios is decades ahead of Dreamweaver in the programming department; dreamweaver has an edge on VS from the creative standpoint.
What I've just said is only true if you're talking about interactive functionality. If your desire is only to create graphical skins and containers - you can do that completely without ever touching VS; check out the skinning forum stickies for where to get started with those things.
I hope that helps,
Matt Christenson
www.RealSkydiving.com