dreamweaver .. is it good?

Question

i'm thinking to buy the latest dreamweaver available in the market.. how much is approx. ??

and is really good?? can i design websites effectively??
does learning dreamweaver on a non-professional basis add to my CV as a potentional IT professional??

Answer 1

Dreamweaver is considered the "Gold Standard" of web development and Adobe intends to keep it that way. Adobe has also aquired Flash and Shockwave to make sure they are always at least considered by web development shops.

It's MSRP is $399USD

You don't need Dreamweaver on your resume to be taken as serious web developer but it helps.

Answer 2

I have the present dreamweaver and it is for professional use in making websets I have taken classes and I am about to take some more in the new dreamweaver just coming out . If you buy it it is expensive. I would sugess you find a class somewhere and see if you like it first hugs beachluvya

Answer 3

Dreamweaver is an ouststanding package for web design in general. I use it professionally on a daily basis. It is one of the finest WYSIWYG editors on the market when setup and used properly.

When I say this I am referring to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. Recently, Macromedia was bought out by Adobe and a few things changed. I was able ot get a copy of the Macromedia Studio 8 here on the Yahoo auctions for a very low price that suits all of my needs. Retail that software package was going for $999.00 I got macromedia studio 8 for under $30 at the auctions. I cannot tell you that you will find the same oppertunity for it as I did though.

Since Adobe bought out Macromedia they added to the suite their Photoshop program and increased the price of the suite to over $2k . If your looking to do this as a business expense and your business can afford to spend the money on it retail then go ahead. You will not be sorry. However if your like I am getting the studio 8 does what I need it to.

As far as if you learn the program on a non professional basis can you be considered an IT professional goes. Anyone with a website on the internet can claim to be a webmaster. The term has no connotation of expertice, experience or knowledge. Learning the program will allow you to make decent static web pages and may open you up to learning more about the code and programming languages as well. If you spend the time to learn how to code and program you owuld certainly qualify for professional positions in the IT world.

I would suggest that you start your study with HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript prior to any other languages you wish to create your pages with as some of the code produced by any WYSIWYG editor on the market will not pass validation of the W3C. In fact most including Dreamweaver will add some propriatary markup to the code you will want to manually edit out of the source code.

In my humble opinion there are many people out there claiming to be web designers that only know front page or dreamweaver and cannot build a page without them.

There are also alot of Graphics Artists that claim to be web designers as well without knowing the code. Those people while they may be sucessful end up giveing a bad reputation to the ones that spend the time to learn the coding. They do this typically by selling a web site to a person then providing them with a poor product or bad experience. The customer then distrusts anyone in the future as well in that same field.

This field is very cut throat. The only way to survive is to know more then your competition or work for a large corperation.

Answer 4

Sorry to cool this line off. Dreamweaver is an attempt at being a coder without succeeding.
- It takes a long time to "learn" all the features of DW, longer than to learn how to code professionally.
- Complex operations won't work, and adjustments must be done later by real coders to make the site "working".
- DW generates a code that is not "up-to-standard" with the W3C requirements (they are always behind).

You ask if you can design pages "effectively". NO-NO-NO!
Once you will try to put together some complex functions, you will hit "dead ends"... and will have to restart from scratch.
DW is ok to make NICE sites, but not for WORKING and efficient sites...


Look at it this way: You learn the language of DW and DW converts its own language in a web language, with, often, bad interpretation. if you try to read the code, you can't understand what it is doing... and you can't maintain what you have done, unless you have the latest DW.

Go to www.skytargets.com, web designs: there are a lot of truths explained there.

A PRO does NOT use any front end program, but just a text editor and his/her skills, nothing else!

Answer 5

Hi, we have dreamweaver at our school...yeah it is pretty good and simple to use with templates and everthing...it's good if you aren't great at designing websites. However it can get tricky to mess with their layouts. Sorry I wouldn't know how much it is.

Answer 6

Yes its a highly professional package takes time to learn and longer to master. But when you do you can make really nice websites. I used it right through college

Answer 7

simple answer... yes it is... i know someone who uses it regularly and she says it extremely good