Comments on: Is Dreamweaver Are static web pages dying?

By: Discount Asics Shoes

Discount Asics Shoes — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:35:12 +0000

I am in that situation right now. I used dreamweaver for many of my sites and I just started to use wordpress. Although wordpress is really good. I love working offline building sites with dreamweaver. I will most likley continue to use both as I do not like depending on one way to do things.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:28:08 +0000

@Easy CSS and HTML – So, how would those sites get updated? See my response to Ringo in my previous comment. I would agree that Drupal or Joomla would be too complex, and even WordPress might not be the most suitable choice, but there are many other basic CMS solutions available.

By: Easy CSS and HTML

Easy CSS and HTML — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:29:38 +0000

I don’t think HTML will be written off the web completely to dynamic pages for the fact that some people do not need a dynamic page. For instance a small interior designer company or construction website would not need the flexibility of a php/mysql driven website. They would need some pages that tells about them, lets users submit a request, examples of their work, and how to reach them. Something that wordpress or drupal or joomla may be too powerful and too time consuming to learn.

By: Website design

Website design — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:25:05 +0000

I too agree with your view. static pages are becoming too little. All are preferring dynamic websites. But I hope many won’t go with templates, Many prefer custom designing though they are dynamic.

This is my view.

Austin

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:21:00 +0000

@cisqua – that’s exactly why static websites are becoming less useful. If you have a small site with limited functionality, usually it’s for a client or small business who needs to be able to edit the content themselves.

I’m not aware of any problems search engines have with Dreamweaver sites. In fact, static pages don’t have many of the same problems that CMS-generated sites sometimes do. Most CMS’s are getting much better at optimizing for search engines now though.

@Ringo – I think the reason why static pages are becoming less common is because it’s getting increasingly rare to find a website that doesn’t require a) editing by regular people or b) advanced functionality that is better provided by an out-of-the-box system rather than being developed from scratch. Your case is an exception

You’re right in that there are some benefits to plain old HTML pages. It seems like now those benefits are being outweighed by the convenience of using a CMS.

@mysticpixesl – I wasn’t talking about people who use Dreamweaver as a code editor. I was talking about the practice of creating static web pages. I don’t know what you mean by “prototyper community”. Personally, I find other tools such as Quanta Plus to be just as good for code editng as Dreamweaver, without all the bloat. But, yes, this could be DW’s niche in the future.

By: mysticpixels

mysticpixels — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:13:42 +0000

Hi Megan,

Did u forget about the hardworking prototyper community ? i believe that the decency of code editing that dreamweaver provides is not to be beated. It is a n important tool of prototyping phase and maintaining a 1000 line css code is never so easy as in DW. Im sure, ADOBE, will keep coming with new features and functionalities to this web authoring tool and it sure is to stay here for long … longer

By: Ringo

Ringo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:29:10 +0000

Static web pages do have some advantages over dynamic ones. For one they are considerably faster for the end user, as there the server does not need to assemble the page on the fly. Static pages place less stress on the server, so more pages can be delivered and it will take many times more visitors for the server to cave under the load.

Of course, it all depends on the kind of page you want. Some pages are not suited for static stuff, most pages can be mostly static, with a couple of snippets of dynamic stuff, and lots of pages can easily be completely static. Of course, remember that a static page can also include JavaScript or Flash, so it doesn’t have to be literally “static”.

I’m starting work on a new site now, and my plan is to write code that pre-generates static html pages based on configuration files. This means that every time I want to update the site, I make some changes and then run a script once to generate all the pages. This makes it as easy to update as a dynamic web site, but saves the server from re-generating each page every time they are clicked.

By: cisqua

cisqua — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:46:37 +0000

Well dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG so google hate a web make with it.

And when making a website for a costumer its much more appealing to them if they can change it themselves or make new posts.

By: lazarus

lazarus — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:41:25 +0000

Interesting post and food for thought – as a fledgling designer who has spent the last 6 months trying to learn adobe creative suite its given me a lot to think about! Ive learned a lot from your site already – in particular the broder radius in mozilla i stumbled accross when i tried to work out how your beautiful layout wasnt using backround images to round off the panel corners

many threads to pull at here = thanks!

By: Supri

Supri — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:50:57 +0000

Wow! This is a great thought-provoking post. I see how the static html pages might become obsolete but with so many people using WYSIWYG features and tools like Dreamweaver, I don’t think we can see the static html pages becoming obsolete anytime soon. But, a great post though!

PS: On a side note, I love your blog. ^__^