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« on: February 17, 2007, 04:03:29 PM »
I would like to understand how DreamWeaver, Adobe and other high-end web authoring tools generate navigation links for sites.

For example, you have a huge website with many directories and deeply nested pages. Do these tools make it easy to manage the generation of navigation menus and breadcrumbs etc.? Even after you made some big changes to your site.

Also, is there any big pain in the a*ss feature of these software packages that you wish they could get right  Grin
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2007, 05:51:29 PM »
They have a free 30 day trial. Also, look at the extensions for additional productivity.
http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2007, 02:48:20 PM »
I forgot Adobe owned Dream Weaver since there used to be an Adobe website authoring tool I think that wasn't Dream Weaver.

There seems to be about 800 extensions for it.

The cost is $399 which seems reasonable. I'm not buying it though since I am creating my own web authoring tool.

I haven't tried the demo yet since it would involve alot of time to evaluate it but I will do when I get to the point of defining my next product.
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2007, 12:46:21 PM »
Dreamweaver is actually pretty good about navigation changes. Here is an example.

The site is originally flat and you want to move into a multi-level site. You simply make the folders within the Dreamweaver software and move the files into this folder. Dreamweaver will then tell you that it will effect other pages and ask if you want to have everything updated. Say yes and it changes the pathing on all the pages.
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2007, 01:10:05 PM »
How about re-arranging the order of links in menus and specifying the text that appears in links? I wonder if that involves dipping into code or is it easy e.g. you decide you want a page listed near the bottom of a menu to appear near the top. Another issue is when your navigation link text is too wide so, to avoid word-wrap, you want to specify a couple of keywords and leave your page title as is.
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2007, 01:12:29 PM »
I don't know about that. I have not had the need for that. We used image nav here. I have never dealt with the text linking or moving of the nav.
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2007, 02:36:28 PM »
Thanks for the feedback Heidi. Image nav is not something I used before. I did help a design student out a while back with adding links to an image map, I should look into it more.
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