Any web designers use Dreamweaver?

[RegEdit]

I encounter a lot of die hard "code junkies" who talk a lot of trash about Dreamweaver. I understand that everything has its limitations, but is Dreamweaver really that bad? I just got done studying two Dreamweaver courses. It's a huge step over FrontPage which I've been using since 1997, and for my OWN websites I am perfectly content with it. But I would like to maybe do some website design for some clients. Any thoughts?

 

[pceinc]

Most web designers I know use Dreamweaver to some extent. Mainly layout and CSS work. I used it during my web design days and liked it. I'm not up to speed on alternatives though.

 

[PCSupportGlasgow]

Dreamweaver was and most likely still is the webdesigners' software of choice.


Having said that been many a year since have actually used it, and even back then it was a case of use dreamweaver then onto your preferred development notepad app of choice and clean up the dreamweaver html quirks.


Like everywhere you will get those who think handcoding on nothing but notepad is the only way to go. But from my days in development (software not website) it was normally those who screamed the loudest about code snobbery what were the sloppiest and only using the screaming as a way to hide their inefficiencies.

 

[KH58]

I used to use GoLive - Dreamweaver, the replacement, has to be an improvement! Try the demo for 30 days and judge for yourself!

Depending on the kind of site you're building, for instance - informational not commerce, you can use InDesign and it'll output the website for you. Great page layout software with advanced design capabilities.

Note: There is one site I maintain that the designer did totally in WordPress. It's like drawing with a brick - I.E. not intuitive nor easy.

 

[seedubya]

Note: There is one site I maintain that the designer did totally in WordPress. It's like drawing with a brick - I.E. not intuitive nor easy.

Wordpress is a CMS not a design software. If he "designed" it in WP then he was probably using a framework like Thesis etc.

An abbreviated workflow for producing a website that uses WP as its platform is:
Discovery→Wireframe→Graphic Design→HTML Conversion→WP Coding→Content creation

Using a framework allows shortcuts in the HTML Conversion→WP Coding stages but sometimes at the price of design flexibility.

 

[RegEdit]

I tried out WordPress and Joomla and quickly found out that if you're not a coding expert then you have no chance of doing any designing or tweeking. Word Press templates all have those blogs that I never use. I tried to use a module that was supposed to remove it but it didn't work. Then my test site started getting hit with spam attacks.

Supposedly you can use Dreamweaver to edit WordPress sites.

I've been relatively happy with using Microsoft FrontPage since 1997 so Dreamweaver is definitely a step up for my own sites. I just hope that clients complain about any idiosyncrasies of Dreamweaver.

 

[AlphaCS]

I tried out WordPress and Joomla and quickly found out that if you're not a coding expert then you have no chance of doing any designing or tweeking. Word Press templates all have those blogs that I never use. I tried to use a module that was supposed to remove it but it didn't work. Then my test site started getting hit with spam attacks.

Supposedly you can use Dreamweaver to edit WordPress sites.

I've been relatively happy with using Microsoft FrontPage since 1997 so Dreamweaver is definitely a step up for my own sites. I just hope that clients complain about any idiosyncrasies of Dreamweaver.

A popular theme helps a ton with ease of setup. Also look for one that has good support.

You can how ever customize most things via backend code on themes to cater to your liking. Plenty of YouTube videos with great info.