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[ManAboutTown]

I'm new here and don't have much to say, except that for the first time in my very brief web design career I want to chuck this program out the window. I'd read about its lack of reliability but never had any real problems. I thought it was pretty basic and easy to use for a no-nonsense site.

Today - for whatever reason - it was crashing every time I opened it. During two of those crashes, it wiped out two pages with lots of stuff on it (thank goodness for backups.) Last week it had erased a different page during a crash, but today it acted up like I've never seen.

Why on earth did Adobe release this thing? Is it easy to import, transfer, etc., a GoLive site to some other design program?

Ugh.

[willybfriendly]

I have had to clean up a couple of GoLive sites. Bad, bad markup. Proprietary tags. Ugly...

I don't know if it has gotten any better over the years or not.

Follow your instincts. Chuck it, but open the window first.

WBF

[ManAboutTown]

Indeed. I don't know much about code, but I do know my site is full of crap. It still works, thank goodness.
As this is my first website, how easy or difficult is it to switch design programs? Will there be any inherited GoLive problems?

[willybfriendly]

Take a week off and learn HTML. You will never regret the decision. It is easy and logical.

Then learn some CSS.

You may still use a WYSIWYG editor, but at least you will understand what you are looking at, and how to fix it.

People are sometimes put off by the prospect of learning HTML, but if you know what a paragraph is then you can learn what <p> does. Yes, it really is that simple.

WBF

[ManAboutTown]

I do know html, but I am incredibly and admitedly lazy.

[jamesrskemp]

I recommend you code with HTML as well - even though it takes more time, it's well worth it in the long run. I've found that setting up templates for commonly used formats works extremely well - build a page design once and forget about it. If something needs to be changed, a find and replace across the site can clean it up almost as easily as a find/replace using your average WYSIWYG ...

[MatthewHSE]

I do know html, but I am incredibly and admitedly lazy.

I recommend you code with HTML as well - even though it takes more time, it's well worth it in the long run.

Actually, I code in straight text HTML as a time-saver. I've used a few WYSIWYG's over the years and have found that none of them could touch a text editor in terms of efficiency. I realize this may not be true for everyone, but it works for me.