Dreamweaver CS3 Extension For Drupal Theming

Just a quick post today to let everyone know that there's an interesting discussion happening on the themes mailing list right now about the possibility of developing a Drupal theming extension for Dreamweaver CS3.

As someone who uses Dreamweaver for almost all of my coding I'm certainly interested to see what might come of this. Kieran Lal from CivicSpace has already raised a very interesting point about the ability of a Dreamweaver extension to actually attract new designers, because an extension could help bridge the gap between a product they know (Dreamweaver) and a product they want to get to know (Drupal). Certainly, I think that anything which can help attract new designers, and folks in general, to Drupal would be beneficial to the project as a whole.

Those who are interested in joining the list just need to head on over to http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/themes and sign up. I'm sure that all suggestions and/or offers of help for development etc. would be most welcome.

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Posted by Laurence @ 12:07PM on August 4th 2007

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johnNovember 5th 2007 @ 05:29AM

I used to use Dreamweaver back when they were still using numbers to indicate the version. These days I use notepad++. Does Dreamweaver offer anything substantially compelling when it comes to theming (aside from what you can get in most advanced text editors)?

LaurenceNovember 5th 2007 @ 06:12PM

Hi John,
in terms of functionality I'm not sure that Dreamweaver has any particular advantage over most advanced text editors. Features which speed up my own workflow, like the general good organisation (tabs etc.) and auto-complete, are certainly not unique to Dreamweaver.

That said, I've 'grown up' using Dreamweaver and I'd guess that quite a few others have as well, so I'd reckon an extension could be a useful lead in for people new to Drupal, and in particular Drupal theming.

najibxNovember 25th 2007 @ 09:32AM

it's pointless to use DW when I can't see the CSS is in action immediately. any idea?

JussFebruary 2nd 2008 @ 10:08PM

This would be very interesting, I have develop themes for joomla with the extension for DW and It's really saves me time, although I know how to edit HTML on a notepad, and I understand basic PHP, this extension is great for making things easy.

I am looking to theme for drupal know and I found that the process is little bit complex and there a lot of snippets that I will not remember for sure, they would be nice to have on this extension.

For those who stand that DW is just a editor, I agree but it is the one most people use.

@najibx: you can see CSS directly on DW, you just need to have the right link to your CSS when working locally, I mean Templates often have dynamic paths for the CSS with variables something like <?php print $styles ?>
So Just add your own link to the CSS relative to your local CSS file, something like <link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> that you can comment later if needed.

This way dreamweaver can show you how the CSS is looking, I recommend you however to test the CSS with the mayor 3 browsers.

danrebJanuary 5th 2010 @ 06:18AM

I create a new extension for Macromedia and Adobe Dreamweaver that will insert template code snippets for Drupal 6.x , you can download it via this URL - > http://drupal.danreb.com/drupal6_themer_snippets.html

hope this will be useful for Dreamweaver and Drupal Themers!