Ooh Dreamweaver, I believe you can get me through the night…
Greetings Beat Readers,
This past week in CSI110 we learned a great deal more about web page design coding using the Dreamweaver application by Adobe. It is one amazing application that makes coding a web page far easier then doing it yourself the old fashion way. The design view allows you to drag and drop text and images right into the application and allows you to work on designing a web page by it’s physical appearance rather then just viewing the html code. Creating a style sheet is a fast and effective way for utilizing CSS to manage the look of all pages associated with your website. I suggest that anyone reading this who is interested in web page design take a look at this software. If I had expendable income that I didn’t need to use on gear for my recording studio then I would go out and purchase the CS4 Master Collection straight away. I may in fact do so one day before I graduate college so that I can take advantage of my student discount.
Even though Dreamweaver is so incredibly cool you still have options in utilizing a Content Management System such as Drupal or Joomla. It is open source and free to use and works in a similar fashion to Dreamweaver. I’m going to dive into one of these in the upcoming weeks to start creating my own professional web page dedicated to my disc jockey business, production company, and songwriting endeavors. I look forward to doing this as I have wanted to create my own web page for some time to help advertise my business and professional abilities. I think I’ll take advantage of Pixlr, an open source free online photo editor, to create content for my site. I’m going to take a look at Inkscape, and Vectorart which are free Adobe Illustrator alternatives utilized for creating images, logos, artwork, etc.
If there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that most applications these days have a free open source alternative and if you’re creative and willing to put in the time then you can accomplish your objectives without breaking the bank. I still believe in owning licenses to software and utilizing them to there full potential and purchasing upgrades, and so on. However, if you can achieve the same goal using free tools then why not, it’s a no brainer.
So, until next time, sweet dreams from audio land…
