I’ve been studying html/CSS for about six months, and as part of that study I learned how to create Pop-out menus using the Son of Suckerfish method.
Now, over the past few days I’ve been taking my first baby steps with Dreamweaver, and it seems to achieve similar results with something called a Spry menu.
Obviously I’m have a much better understanding of what’s going on under the hood with the Suckerfish method, but either of these methods have any particular advantages?
Truly, to switch from Suckerfish to Spry would be similar to tipping your dinner into the trash and taking a dump on your plate instead. Don’t do it! Suckerfish is good code, and anything Dw vomits up is not worth using.
OK, sorry, probably a bit too graphic, but it gets the point across, I hope. If you are able to write code yourself (such as Suckerfish HTML/CSS) it’s a backward step to let a program write code for you. It’s usually not very efficient, and not very pretty either. Programs like that are really the sort of thing you use if you have to (because you don’t know how to code it yourself.)
EDIT: a few years ago I was asked to help fix a spry menu, and the code was so goddawful and hard to work with that I suggested using Suckerfish instead, which was much easier and worked much better. For all I know, things have improved a bit with Dw, but all the same, an automated process is never as good as hand coding.
