Hi everyone, this is my first post here. The person who set up our company website has moved on and due to the fact that several years ago (in a previous life) I spent time programming websites (I used to use Cold Fusion), it has fallen to me to look after the site. The guy who set up the site used Adobe Contribute to update it.

I have looked at Contribute and it seems ok for most simple updates but I need to do more. I have used the CoffeeCup Free version and quite like it. I would like to use it as the external editor from within Contribute.

Someone has suggested we buy Dreamweaver, but I'm leaning toward CoffeeCup.

I would really appreciate any thoughts, particularly from anyone who has used Contribute.

Cheers,
John

Never having used Dreamweaver this is all second hand information...but...there have been a lot of users on here who had problems with Dreamweaver and now use the cc HTML Editor and/or Visual Site Designer. That said.. My own opinion...if you are taking over the web site, and don't like what you have now, get either HTML Editor if you know coding, or Visual Site Designer if you do not, and re-create your web site in a form that works for you.

Not knowing exactly what your web site entails, that may or may not be sound advice. It really is up to you ...Not much help I know, but it's all I've got.

If you're doing coding work, then the HTML Editor will do you just fine. Although it may not have "all" the bells and whistles that Dreamweaver has, it's very feature rich and has all the main things you need as well as many others for doing any site work from scratch or taking over a current site.

To use VSD you would need to totally start from scratch and recreate it as Gunsmoke says, and if you're planning to go with the most recent coding standards, then VSD couldn't do that for you. You also would not be able to edit the code outside of the program unless you never plan to go into VSD with it again as it cannot import data, only outputs it. It will however do a very nice site and you can recreate almost anything as it has a lot of features itself and the ability to add code items into it also.

In the end it's up to you, but if you're working with a currently operating site, I would suggest the HTML Editor. Take the trial for a spin (not the free version, but the trial version which is fully operational), and see if that works for you, do that for both programs even so you can see the difference.

Good Morning Jo Ann,
So here I am again, with troubles of course, LOL. I am trying to get my css coding to work for creating menus. For some reason I can not get the coding correct or the concept in my head. I think the latter is probably the case, at any rate do you have suggestions of where or how to learn this? I would appreciate your assistance, Thanks
Joe V

Are you trying to code a responsive css menu or an 'ordinary' one? If ordinary, check out this site, which has both a vertical and a horizontal menu: www.iveland-il.no .

If you want to make a responsive menu, I'm working on this at the moment: www.eikweb.com/test .

You can copy the html and css for the menu and play with it.

You can do a Google search for the term

Free HTML Tutorial

and

Free CSS Tutorial

and you'll find a lot of them out there to get you started. You can also check out the book CSS3: The Missing Manual to get a good grasp on CSS and how it works as well as getting into the new CSS3 standards all in one book. Very good book to learn CSS with. I used to send people to w3schools, but their tutorials aren't the best these days, you can get a good idea from them, and they have a whole lot of information and the tutorials would give you a bit of help so if you want to check that out you can go here:
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

Hope that helps and happy learning