$95 for an outdated video lesson is kind of steep.
I, also, have been having a lot of problems wrapping my head around Wappler. One issue is Bootstrap, and the assumption that all of us are building responsive apps that work on mobile devices. Can’t we just get the options to use standard web elements without all of the pre-styling? I would prefer zero style when I’m developing and then fix up the css later. I always feel like I’m hunting and pecking trying to undo something that was set automatically.
The other issue, for me, is that you can’t see everything that’s going on or all of the options unless you know to click in a certain place. And I don’t know how you know if you don’t know. In DW, you can see all of the Server Behaviors on a page without clicking on anything first. I feel like there’s so much hiding in Wappler, that I guess the wrong place to look 10 times before I find the right thing to click on.
I had my Dreamweaver Certification back in the day, and probably built around 40 dynamic websites with large databases. I was able to move to Hawaii 20 years ago solely based on the income from those websites. The old DMXZone extensions and/or the WebAssist extensions really made it easy and fast to generate basic cms-sites. Like, one-day fast. I have had a Wappler pro license since May, but I haven’t been able to do in 4 months what I used to be able to do in Dreamweaver in 4 hours.
Like right now I’m trying to make a very basic user login form. With DW, you made a form then applied a Server Behavior. It asked you where to redirect in either case, it set the security level, you could easily add a Rememeber Me checkbox. It was really very simple. If I spend the rest of today trying to figure this out in Wappler, I know I still won’t have all of those options.
Everyday I struggle with buying the $800 Webassist suite so that I can go back to using DW or do I keep struggling with Wappler. I know Wappler is more advanced because it’s newer, but I’m just having a very hard time with the interface.
I think I purchased the ASP upload extension from George around 2000. Applying that extension 21 years ago was far easier than doing the same thing today in Wappler.
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