If the mood strikes me, I can happily plug along coding with Notepad and previewing in a browser with the free Filezilla for uploading. It's nice not needing the program to get my work done. As I tried to help them, I was teaching myself how to do those things via code instead of clicking through the menu system hoping to find something similar to what they wanted. At that time, just around GL's death, this place was full of people asking how to do things that weren't built into DW. As a result, my coding skills got better. The UI was decidedly "Macromedia" so I didn't like using it if I didn't have to. When Adobe killed GL, I had enough html and css under my belt that moving to DW was a snap. GoLive was great for making something happen but terrible at making it happen efficiently. The more code I learned, the more I found I didn't need the software to do things for me. As time went by and I couldn't find the "why" for something not working the way I wanted in the software, I started looking at code. I started as a graphic designer and was eventually hired on at a company that used GoLive to make websites. What steps did you take to master hard coding? Are you a designer as well?
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