If you don’t know who Jeffrey Zeldman is, he’s the web genius behind sites like A List Apart and Happy Cog. He’s also written several books and is pretty much just an overall web genius with a strong background in web usability.
About a month ago he released a plugin for Dreamweaver that makes writing standards compliant code much easier. He says that it is for pretty much anybody who codes, from n00b to l33t web haxor and even said he found some errors on his site with it. I haven’t had the chance to play with it yet simply because I don’t mind spending the extra time to check my work and validate it…oh, and I don’t want to spend $50 on it yet.
He does mention that “It will help coders at any level (including expert) who use Dreamweaver as a primary web development tool, and who know about web standards but don’t spend all day thinking about them”. I definitely don’t want to be thinking about web standards all day, but for the most part, compliant coding has just become second nature for me in my newer projects.
I’ll probably go ahead and get it when I get around to it. Mainly to test it out and see if it does make things so I don’t have to constantly validate and then revalidate after major changes. When you’re working with sites that have 5,000+ pages, it’s gets to be just about impossible to make sure every page validates. If this thing makes that easier, I’m in.
Once I buy it, I’ll come back with a review for you guys.
You can read more about it here.
Learn more about Jeffrey here
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