Adobe Dreamweaver: A Legacy Web Design Tool That Misses Critical Opportunities
May 10, 2021
Adobe Dreamweaver: A Legacy Web Design Tool That Misses Critical Opportunities
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design and development tool. We have used [Adobe] Dreamweaver in the past as part of both the design, development, and deployment of websites and web applications. The FTP deployment solution included with [Adobe] Dreamweaver makes administering legacy websites that do not utilize modern deployment implementations extremely simple.
- Website Organization/File Management
- FTP Deployment
- Design/Preview Mode
- Needs Adobe ColdFusion Support
- Dreamweaver Should become a full-fledged IDE
- Better source code tools like comparable IDEs
- FTP Deployment
- Intelligent Code Editor
- Design view
- Negative impact due to lack of ColdFusion support
- FTP Deployment is a nice feature to have for legacy sites
Unfortunately, [Adobe] Dreamweaver is an inferior website design and development tool by modern standards. While [Adobe] Dreamweaver has its place for legacy websites or for teaching young developers the basics of HTML and CSS, I would not recommend using it for any modern project. You would think Adobe would support its own development language, ColdFusion (CFML) in its products, but sadly it does not. Adding official CFML support would go a long way with Adobe customers and would be a tremendous addition to Creative Cloud and Dreamweaver as a standalone product.
Do you think Adobe Dreamweaver delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Adobe Dreamweaver's feature set?
No
Did Adobe Dreamweaver live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe Dreamweaver go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe Dreamweaver again?
No