How can I make my WinXP Pro PC run faster? (Second HD? SCSI? Dual-Core?) - Budget: aprox. GBP300

[Jerry Stuckle]

In what respect?

DW (and other visual editors), for all their woes, are a lot faster at
producing output. Also fantastic for prototyping where time is an issue
and layout is critical. It takes 2 clicks to insert a table (even in
code view), or how many key presses in emacs?

DW's code editor, while not the best in the world, is very powerful and
easily holds it's own against most windowed editors. Unlike the awful
FrontPage it does not "rearrange" your code for you either.

Code monkeys need to wake up; the less time you have to spend coding
the better - you can spend more time on making your sites easier to
use, more pleasant to look at and more functional instead of pissing
around with HTML tags. What's more important, pretty code or user
experiences?

And I can probably create a table with content almost as quickly in
notepad as you can in dreamweaver. It doesn't take much to create
<table ...> and </table> tags. And I'll do my rows and cells as I go,
instead of having to go back and forth.

Plus I'll wager that defining rows and columns with attributes (i.e.
rowspan, colspan, etc.) is faster with notepad than DW.

As for viewing the output - FF, Opera and IE do quite well displaying
files on my machine.

And yes, I've used DW. It works OK. But I've found many competent
webmasters can create pages more quickly with a plain editor. And the
code will be cleaner than DW generated code - which is important for
both bandwidth and speed.

But there's nothing wrong with using DW. But to say it's the best is
just incorrect. There is no "best".

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[kony]

Code monkeys need to wake up; the less time you have to spend coding
the better -

Nope, you just end up with bloat.
If it's your job to do this, accept responsibility and do it
right instead of merely the fastest way.

you can spend more time on making your sites easier to
use,

Unfortunately, most of the "easier to use" mindset is
producing pages with redundant clutter, or wasted space,
instead of content, and longer download times for things
people aren't even interested in.

more pleasant to look at and more functional instead of pissing
around with HTML tags. What's more important, pretty code or user
experiences?

I can see you don't understand if you think it has to be one
or the other.

 

[Justin - SYNACS]

Brian,

Shot in the dark, but if you're running an AMD Athlon, Socket 939
flavor, then your single-core chipset will take a dual core SKT 939
with no other upgrades needed (except maybe the BIOS).

 

[Brian Cryer]

Brian,

Shot in the dark, but if you're running an AMD Athlon, Socket 939
flavor, then your single-core chipset will take a dual core SKT 939
with no other upgrades needed (except maybe the BIOS).

My PC at home is an Athlon. No idea what socket - but I'll take a look.

I appreciate the suggestion. Thank you.

 

[Justin - SYNACS]

No problem!!

My PC at home is an Athlon. No idea what socket - but I'll take a look.

I appreciate the suggestion. Thank you.