[IMC-Tech] Dreamweaver MX

[Lee Azzarello]

I do have a comitment to free software, but I wouldn't call it a marriage.
If I remember correctly, the IMC free software comitment says that free
software should be used *whenever possible*. To my knowledge, there isn't
a graphical shell for dynamic web application management available for
Linux.

I believe that many of the IMC websites are ultimately controled by a
small technological elite, and by using tools that make content management
simpler, that elite will slowly disolve.

By ignoring non-free alternatives when no free software is available, that
elite is maintained.

On Mon, 6 May 2002 pietro@indymedia.org wrote:

> Hi Lee,
> 
> you could also say that Dreamweaver is "very propriatary, and Macromedia is a 
> big, evil corporation" and that we at IMC have a comitement to free software 
> too.
> 
> Pietro.
> 
> 
> Quoting Lee Azzarello <lee@eds.org>:
> 
> Well, my point was mostly this: fancy pants designers find out about the
> IMC (i'm speaking from my experience in new york) and get all hype about
> helping. When it's explained that our site is big and confusing, the first
> thing I hear is "why don't you just use something like Dreamweaver or
> FrontPage". Then I explain that our site is built dynamically using
> many different server-side scripting languages like PHP and Perl, and a
> graphical shell like Dreamweaver can't display pages with that kind of
> code in it. Then they look confused and scared because they have to learn
> php to make design changes.
> 
> >From what I read on Macromedia's site, the new version of Dreamweaver can
> display php code in the layout window, thus making it a posibility for
> actual day-to-day site maintainance. I just downloaded the demo, so I'll
> let you know how it goes.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
> 	--Lewis Skolnick: The Revenge of the Nerds
> 


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