[Ti] "mostly" made on a Mac?

b galahad9 at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 18 12:57:03 PST 2003


According to Michael Bigley:

>>Not yet - I am going to add a database connection through MS Access 
>>in the near future. Perhaps I should put that on the pages that are 
>>created in Front Page. (actually, so far, the pages that will 
>>eventually support a form have been created 100% on a mac, in 
>>Dreamweaver MX - I will open those pages up, and add the database 
>>connection in Front Page).
>
>Frontpage is an absolutely horrible choice to develop web pages in, 
>especially if you already have dreamweaver... If you ever have 
>trouble loading a web page, view source and over half the time the 
>site is created in Frontpage. In fact, with non-IE browsers of 
>today, I would WAG it to be over 75%.
>
>It creates very proprietary(to IE/windoze) and buggy code.  Create a 
>page with Frontpage, then create the same in dreamweaver and look at 
>the bulky, excess code from Frontpage...
>
>I would also suggest MySQL over Access. Some pretty good GUI tools 
>for OSX now and because of the Open Source community, lots of free 
>help online.  MySQL performed neck and neck with Oracle and miles 
>ahead of everything else in the Ziff Davis shootout.
>
>Free youself from M$ proprietary gunk ;-)
>--

Second that. Dreamweaver is the One.

Also, most people can get away with flat-file DBs, so even MySQL is 
overkill in what, 75% of the cases? Or more like 90%?

I'd avoid the MS stuff like the plague, also.

~flipper



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