Dreamweaver Spoils?
I was interviewing number of candidates for web designer post. One of the interesting thing I noted is, about 95% of them use Dreamweaver. That was good. It helps in quick development, quick delivery and consistent code style.
But the side effects? 99% of the candidates were aware of just 20-30% of the HTML tags. Many of them admitted that, to debug, or even, to edit basic table structures they definitely need dreamweaver. Nearly half of them are scared to edit the HTML code directly. And, interestingly, a candidate who used the merge cells option to merge two rows, doesn’t know about the ROWSPAN tag.
I feel a little worried about this trend. HTML & CSS tags are the fundamental, basic things a web designer/developer should know. Instead of mastering the art of “using dreamweaver”, they should spend some quality time in making themselves familiar with all the widely used tags. They should practice hand coding to some extent, which will reduce the fear to touch the code directly (during debugging)
-Dharma
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
That is the “negative” side effect of working on any RAD,IDE or FrameWork. They make the user dumb. Try coding on netbeans for few months and u will forget half the java apis.
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Whats wrong in forgetting the API as long as u r able to complete your program!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Wanting “only” to complete the program by itself is wrong. Forgetting the api is not wrong but not being able to understand how and why certain things happen the way they happen limits a persons capability in carrying out bigger and better experiments. If there is a better way to write a program or to make the product work without the program then that should be analyzed rather than just aiming to complete the program.