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Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal!
Barence writes "Here's an interesting blog post by a designer who reckons Dreamweaver is dying. It's not Dreamweaver's fault, though. Nor is the problem Adobe and its development team — the last Dreamweaver CS4 version was the most impressive release in years. Moreover, although Microsoft Expression Web poses a far more credible threat than FrontPage could muster, Dreamweaver remains the best HTML/CSS page-based editor available. The real problem for Dreamweaver and for its users is that the nature of the web is changing dramatically."
No, it's not. In fact, it didn't really cope well with CSS at all, last time I checked. Dreamweaver was designed back when everyone was using tables to build sites. For that, it worked, because it's hard to screw up something that's all wrong from the beginning. Well, they did actually manage to screw it up anyway for a while, by loading up your HTML, and reformatting the whole thing just because you edited a line and then saved.
Basically, if you don't know at least CSS and HTML (preferably object oriented programming, MVC, database, design patterns, accessibility etc. too) then you've no place messing with web design, except for doing mockups in an art package.
fine, use Wordpress etc. Just don't try to produce raw HTML files; that would be like buying a (very large and complex) box of tools when you could just buy a Starter's kit in (the metaphor just fell apart in my mind. Sorry.)
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