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Adobe Dreamweaver

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What is Adobe Dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver is a web development tool built for designing pages with HTML and CSS using template pages, text editing, and a what you see is what you get editor.

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Time Saver for Custom Email Creation.

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Christie WengranowskiView profile
President | CEO in Customer Service at Flying Horse Design Studio (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We offer website design & development as well as manage email marketing for a variety of clients. We create HTML emails to deliver custom-designed email templates. Dreamweaver helps us save time with the coding. I have been using Dreamweaver since 2002, and it plays a significant role in my team's daily routines. It would take a lot of extra time if we had to hand-code everything.

Pros

  • Makes it easy to build custom html emails that can go in to email marketing platforms.
  • Allows for style sheets to be created with little effort.
  • Is easy to learn and use.

Cons

  • The ability to create mobile friendly stuff can be tricky.
  • The program has been known to unexpectedly quit more that I'd like.
  • I prefer some of the former layout options from previous versions as they seemed more intuitive.

Return on Investment

  • Saves time of doing everything by hand.
  • Makes managing older PHP hand-coded sites easier to manage.
  • Allows for easy creation of HTML emails.

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe InDesign

Adobe Dreamweaver - 10/10

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Verified User
Employee (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Dreamweaver daily to assist with building websites and web layouts. I also use it to help check code syntax for various languages. It saves me so much time!

Pros

  • Checking Code Syntax
  • Displaying Coded Layouts
  • Shortcuts That Save Time

Cons

  • Sometimes it locks up when loading external assets.
  • Connecting websites via FTP can sometimes be challenging.

Return on Investment

  • Assisted with table layouts for html emails.
  • Code syntax checking which saves time and money.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Sublime Text and Notepad++

Other Software Used

FastStone, Adobe Express, Adobe PhotoShop

Good product for quick development.

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Verified User
Employee (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Dreamweaver to develop survey requests for email delivery. The product addresses business problems such as ensuing that the content is appropriate for this use.

Pros

  • Real time preview of designs with split code view.
  • Easily preview designs in a number of browsers.
  • Code hinting.
  • Real time error detection.
  • Validation reports.

Cons

  • Connection to data sources could ne easier.
  • Accessibility validation
  • CSS changes not always reflected in live mode.

Usability

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign

Dreamweaver Works for Newsletters and Websites

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Nanci Taplett
Director of Corporate Communications in Marketing at Wildlife Computers (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Dreamweaver to write and create our monthly newsletter and other HTML projects. It is a great tool to be able to lay it out and see my work before posting it. I am a jack-of-all-trades so it is simple to use for all my projects. I like the fact that it comes with Adobe Creative Cloud and I can use it across multiple tools. If you work directly with code, you need to use Dreamweaver. It lets you work with HTML, CSS, and others. Just the fact that you can preview how the code will work is a huge selling point.

Pros

  • Live View Editing
  • Code Suggestions
  • jQuery Integration
  • files Panel for Multiple Projects

Cons

  • Price
  • Learning curve can be steep.
  • There are better visual editors

Most Important Features

  • The ability to write code directly into Dreamweaver.
  • Live view editing
  • Multi-monitor support is awesome when writing a lot of code

Return on Investment

  • We pay $600 a year for one license of Adobe Creative Cloud. Dreamweaver is included in that. It costs $99 a month for Mailchimp. I send out 4 newsletters every year. I average 15 inquiries a quarter for our product. Those 15 inquires result in average of 6 sales averaging $90,000 a quarter or $360,000 a year. So the investment of $1000 a year is worth it.
  • The learning curve is steep. There are so many features and functions I still don't know. Depending on your files that you open, you could have different things to look at and it can be intimidating.
  • It is really easy to get a lot of unnecessary paragraphs in my code. I have a terrible habit of hitting enter on my keyboard. This adds a lot of lines of code in the end and makes it difficult to identify problems in the end.

Excellent Software to create Website and App

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Atul Sharma
Sr. Web Designer in Information Technology at Programmers (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Very simple to write code in Dreamweaver editor
  • Auto Complete feature is great
  • Spell Check, Syntax Checker functionality is very good

Cons

  • very complex system
  • it is costly
  • setup file is big

Most Important Features

  • Auto Complete tag feature is really good
  • Spell Check, Syntax Checker function very helpful features
  • Simple and Easy to use

Return on Investment

  • It is very easy to use so we can fast write the code
  • User workspace and features are very good so we can do quality work
  • Sometimes when open the file directly from server, it hangs

Other Software Used

FileZilla, Time Doctor, Basecamp