Week 2: Dreamweaver vs Notepad ++

Class this week was interesting. We moved on from notepad ++ to Adobe Dreamweaver.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was created by Macromedia in 1997, and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005

Dreamweaver vs Notepad ++

Dreamweaver may make things a bit easier and faster, but again, you are not personally writing the code for the website that you're designing, so you may have to check to be sure the code produced by Dreamweaver is what you want.

As for using Microsoft's NotePad application, while you have to write all the code for a website or application yourself, you are more in control of what the code looks like and how it works. Though, doing this does require that you do a bit more work and that you know how to code, perhaps in a variety of different languages, such as HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, etc. Though, learning to program is fun and can be useful!

Another option would be to use both DreamWeaver and a text-editing program to design websites, as you can speed up the process with Dreamweaver and go over the code, editing things as you see fit with NotePad++ or whichever text-editing program you prefer.