Assignment 2
Due April 15, 2008 Week 2
Directions:
In this assignment we will start our exploration of web tools. You will be posting a critique of a web tool to the blog. Your critique should include the following:
- Name of the web tool
- URL
- Cost : Trial info
- Description (1 paragraph)
- Information about special features (1 paragraph)
- Test drive the tool and report on what you liked, or did not like about the tool (1 paragraph)
Tools
You can pick one of the tools below, or pick your own. Once you have selected, email me (enyasi@gmail.com ) so I can make sure no one else selects your tool.
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007
- Microsoft Expression Web 2
1 comment:
Aviva Furman
April 15,2008
Assignment 2 CTN 161
Review of a Web Tool
CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007, Version 5.9
http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
Cost: $49.00
Free Download: for 28 days
CoffeeCup HTML editor is a handy tool for designing websites. There are 2 ways in which it can be used: the WYSIWYG visual editor and the code editor. It is simple to go between the 2 views of editing, as well as seeing a preview of your web page. It has lots of helpful features, facilitating the incorporation of javascript, as well as being inexpensive and easy to learn and use.
CoffeeCup HTML editor has many features. Here are some of the features I particularly liked:
• A tags toolbar which is available on the left. It contains all the html tags, plus their attributes. It is very helpful as a resource, and it cuts down on typing, since you can just click on the tag and it will fill it in on your html page. For example, you could click on the tag, then see all the attributes, such as height, loopdelay, etc.
• Javascript code snippets for performing various interesting functions
• Colorschemer – great little tool for selecting color combinations and trying them out
• An easy wizard-driven way to add flash code snippets as well as page transitions
There were many features I liked about CoffeeCup HTML, as mentioned above, and in general it was easy to use, and very affordable. There were some things, however that were frustrating. The “validate HTML” function didn’t seem to do anything. Working with WYSIWYG was definitely more frustrating than doing than code. It wasn’t clear where to click in tables in order to change colors, etc. and there were definite limits to what you could do in that mode. The code cleaner seems like it would be a very good tool, and it has lots of well-documented selectable options, but on trying it once, it created some rather odd looking code. Despite the limitations in WYSISYG mode, I would highly recommend it for use in the code editor mode.
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