I built a website for one of the organizations that I work for in asp using notepad. Now, a marketing company has taken over the "day to day" upkeep on the site, but they use dreamweaver. I have heard a rumor that I am going to have to take the site back over because the head of the organization is not happy with the marketing company. Does dreamweaver alter the code?
I would love to use dreamweaver, but I do not have the software and since this is a free job, they are not going to spend any money on software.
Why would you use Dreamweaver even if they use it at work. Will they force to do so? I would recommend using what you feel comfortable with. In my current job Dreamweaver is used except for me.
Dreamweaver will not have simply altered the code just because they have opened the files in it - it will only alter it if they have intentionally added/ changed the functionality. DW - or at least earlier versions - did "support" ASP (and .Net) however its support was very limited and unless you had their code in the script unaltered you could only edit it via the Code view and not use the WYSIWYG/ Wizards to change code other than the most basic <%= %> type elements
How long was this marketing company in charge of the site? If they had it for a long time and tried to change a lot of things I would bet that the code is far more scrambled now. If they tried editing ASP in Dreamweaver they probably do not have the same coding skills as you do and would have "Dreamweaverized" (look, I made up a word!) a lot of your original code so they could understand it. Dreamweaver itself would not have modified any of the code, so let's hope they were lazy and never got around to making any serious changes.