Notepad Web Design

I am a freelance designer known web and I'll start designing websites for teaching in a small computer center. If I teach using Dreamweaver, I fear that students will not bother to learn to HTML. But if I give the HTML coding and CSS in notepad, it seems difficult or too boring for beginners?

Sometimes Dreamweaver screw - for example, you make a selection in Design view and will recover a part of a closing tag.

Because of this, I want to work in split view. You need to demonstrate that they understand why it is important to know the tags. Also demonstrate how to copy text or code of a web page can cause problems if you paste it into Notepad first.

Html I suggest the former, then the new (FrontPage-esque) way.
I think Dreamweaver has a html mode when you type the html code.

First comes the basic HTML tags. So first train using Notepad. They would feel it difficult to modify the code if they are fully trained in a WYSIWYG environment. I hope it helps

Let them do it the hard in Notepad for a few days and then expose them to a text editor that saves some work .... like how Visual Studio creates closing tags for you when you create the opening tag. Show how it makes life easier and they will be on it like fat on a mother's brother.

How old are the students? I believe in working in the code and learning from scratch. But if they are of primary school age, a WYSIWYG editor is easier and more fun for them.

If the youth and undoubtedly learn HTML + CSS, but you can still use Dreamweaver. Just put them on fashion design + code so they can make both graphically and in the Labour Code at the same time to see how they work.

I would go and how to start Notepad. I found myself in exactly the same dilemma. What I found when I made the road that Dreamweaver has been the task of understanding the relationship between CSS and HTML. So I made a few sessions to get them to hand the code of a web page Hello world basic formatting with CSS so they wouldnt be gradually seeing the code in Dreamweaver. My approach is that HTML is a language and it was better to goround in the grammar of it rather than trying to form sentences without really knowing why.

Notepad, the only way they will be able to fix a site when Dreamweaver messes your code!

If you want them to be able to see the results immediately, but the HTML code, check out the tutorials on w3schools.com. I use this site and their tutorials for training new members of my staff.

You want the students to work outside of school hours, then I would suggest staying away because the cost of Dreamweaver - there is always one student who did not or will not buy .

How about using a free HTML editor (like Notepad + +) so that you can use HTML, but have the syntax makes it clearer than MS Notepad.

Hello

You should really focus on HTML / CSS instead of WYSIWYG software ... but I think web design means more visual design, interface design and information architecture ... that you need Photoshop or similar software ... but also for a successful website, you must have solid knowledge of html / css, to see what can be encoded and what is not ...

The only software I personally use for coding due to "suggestions" function code is PHP Designer, which is primarily a PHP / MySQL programming, but also has support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other technologies ... and they have university degrees, which costs only $ 32 ...

I hope I'm helpful, good luck to teaching)

Cheers!
Alex Mos - Web Designer / Founder
http://www.WebsonDesign.com