Ease of using Chinese Simplified Dreamweaver CS4

Is it better to author in Chinese DW or MS Word?

[Scotty_B]

Does anyone have experience working with Chinese Simplified Dreamweaver CS4?

Do Chinese authors find it easy to author in Simplified Chinese with this tool.

Is it easier for Chinese authors to create material in Dreamweaver, or MS Word (then convert Word files to ASCII files and paste into Dreamweaver)?

[bill]

DW is just a tool. You can author a Chinese website on anything from NotePad to a WYSIWYG. If people are creating content for you then give them an appropriate tool. A word processor for text will probably have the capability of producing better documents than a plain text editor.

What you do with that content later is up to you.

[Scotty_B]

Thanks Bill.

My company has managed dozens or translations to Spanish, French and German. However this is our first Chinese project and it has us somewhat intimidated.

It appears that our primary goal should be to choose an authoring tool that makes it easy for the Chinese Engineers to perform the translation.

The original project is complete and in Dreamweaver (English). If we translate the text into Simplified Chinese, and save the files as ASCII.txt;
1. Can I simply paste them into the correct places in my English Dreamweaver project and have them display properly?
2. Do I have to do anything to make Chinese Characters display properly?

[bill]

I don't use DW, so I can't help you there. Pasting the text in there should work.

2. Do I have to do anything to make Chinese Characters display properly?

We've covered this topic [bing.com] a few times before.