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Adobe Dreamweaver Reviews

7 Reviews

Time Saver for Custom Email Creation.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

This program is a must-have if you work in any HTML-based programs. It's convenient for HTML emails and tweaking code used in Wordpress. It's also greta for editing older PHP sites I manage for clients, I do not use it for new websites anymore as I feel other solutions are more suitable for my clients.

Adobe Dreamweaver - 10/10

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I feel that Dreamweaver is the ultimate web development software. It's flexibility, features, and ease of use are why I would rate it 10/10 everytime. While there are plenty of coding software options out there, for web development and even something as simple as code syntax checking, Dreamweaver is your best option.
Vetted Review
Adobe Dreamweaver
10 years of experience

Good product for quick development.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is is well suited to quickly building page frameworks, and less appropriate in situations using complex or not standard CSS, as it mat not render correctly right away. A double-check in another editor may be required.
Vetted Review
Adobe Dreamweaver
20 years of experience

Dreamweaver Works for Newsletters and Websites

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

One of the issues I've had is our company newsletter. I use MailChimp to send it but the template I chose does not work well in MailChimp. My work-around is that I host the template in Adobe Dreamweaver and then code the new newsletter content in the tool. This allows me to choose the "Code Your Own" option in MailChimp. I simply paste in the code, make any tweaks, and then I can send it to my subscribers.

Excellent Software to create Website and App

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Dreamweaver software is very useful especially for web designer. It is very simple to use. All key features are really very good and simple. The most important fact that it comes with my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and is easy for me to update website files like HTML, CSS, and other related file formats.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Dreamweaver allows toggling between live view, code and design views. This makes it one of the easiest platforms to make changes quickly to either code or design elements. Undo function is the most important functions, and it’s still not working perfectly. You won’t have any problem with it when coding in Dreamweaver, but web design might suffer.

Adobe Dreamweaver the Standard for Students

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe accounts are required for the degree, and Dreamweaver is its own course at BSC. We sample other HTML editors, but Dreamweaver is the standard. It addresses the need for speed as you enter code, as well as the need to remember elements and properties- you don't need to with Dreamweaver. It suggests what you need and makes editing and design more in-depth.

Pros

  • Noting errors by line
  • CSS editing
  • Providing code - You don't need to type everything out

Cons

  • Space - you have to download the software on your hard drive
  • Cost - It's a monthly subscription and not open source
  • RAM - You need enough RAM to run Adobe products, and if you don't have enough it will crash and you can lose hours of work.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's perfect for Web Development and Web page design despite its errors. Better for different computers, and devices with more storage and power.

Adobe Dreamweaver: A Legacy Web Design Tool That Misses Critical Opportunities

Rating: 1 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Website Organization/File Management
  • FTP Deployment
  • Design/Preview Mode

Cons

  • Needs Adobe ColdFusion Support
  • Dreamweaver Should become a full-fledged IDE
  • Better source code tools like comparable IDEs

Likelihood to Recommend

[Adobe] Dreamwevaer is suitable only for legacy websites at this point that requires FTP deployment. It is unfortunate that Adobe doesn't officially support their own development language, ColdFusion (CFML) in their own tools despite supporting other languages like PHP. As a result, I would not use [Adobe] Dreamweaver on any modern website project.
Vetted Review
Adobe Dreamweaver
20 years of experience