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I am annoyed. Using Dreamweaver to create my online documentary is turning out to be a very tedious process. I don’t mean to disregard the advantages of the program (Lauren is justified in acknowledging the benefits of Dreamweaver), it’s just that the software has simply not been kind to me.

Creating html websites during my undergraduate degree was indeed laborious, but I never remembered it being this complicated. I never found it so overwhelmingly daunting to start from scratch, from a frightening blank page on a screen, or rather a sea of never-ending white staring at me hopelessly as if to ask me to lift it out of its misery.

I like code. Code was how I was introduced to building websites, and while it took time for me to get my head around it, it became convenient. Dreamweaver appears to make things easier with a wide range of options (so you can avoid wasting time with code) and its interface seemingly allows you to edit with ease, with control, as you would with Word, or even Photoshop. Yet my experiences thus far have not done much more than bring to surface its limitations.

I just want to be able to resize a table for goodness’ sake. Why show the resize border controls if you won’t let me resize the stupid table? And why when you preview your page in a browser, the table dimensions change according to the size you set your browser window?