Adobe Dreamweaver Reviews: 4.1/5 — Solid Choice

In case you are familiar but not fluent with HTML/CSS, Dreamweaver serves as a pretty solid webdesign tool. The file management system is reasonably intuitive and it is light weight enough for speedy connections to the server.

The learning curve is steep compared to other platforms available on the market, such as Shopify, Bigcommerce, etc. Of course, it's not an apples to apples comparison, but for the money, you can have a full fledged ecommerce system instead of just the design layer at the same price.

Maintained two ecommerce sites responsible for $4M in annual revenue

Adobe Dreamweaver comes with a robust feature set that makes web editing extremely simple. An inexperienced user can quickly learn how to use Dreamweaver without much effort, and the large set of templates makes creating a presentable and professional website simple and fast.

Although Dreamweaver comes with many great features, it has a few major issues. Most importantly, it is unnecessarily expensive, with the cheapest consumer version (CC) requiring an expensive yearly membership. Additionally, Dreamweaver is a very clunky program that takes an exceedingly long time to load on computers that are not particularly powerful. Overall, you are probably better off using a free (albeit slightly outdated) program like Microsoft Expression Web, which has a similar feature set.

Although I am not a current Dreamweaver user, I have used it in the past to design and edit websites.

This program was taught in my college, so having a class on it was helpful. I also like how it color codes my code.

It wasn't very intuitive to me. It was frustrating that the preview window didn't look the same as the website uploaded to the web. As a designer, it didn't come naturally. Working with Flash and Adobe Edge Animate were much easier transitions for me since they have more visual user interfaces.

I used Dreamweaver in the past but don't use it anymore. In the past I used it for web design. At the time it was the most accessable web development tool I had.

Layout is very modern and accessible, absolutely customize-able and allows the user to create with unlimited possibilities.

Access though Adobe, unless you use most Adobe programs there are many other options for coding software.

It is not beneficial for the type of cites and pages that I make, online web design is much quicker and simpler for basic business.

It has a lot of features and once you get used to the learning curve, you can quickly move through design process.

I have a dev machine and am a webmaster have been for 20 years. Have used DW a long time, and as with many softwares, in the old days, it used to be a great tool. Quick and fairly easy. With more features seems to always bring more complexity. Too top heavy and difficult to use with too steep a learning curve. Code it writes has a lot of 'garbage code' and difficult to use on a laptop. Not my first choice for web dev, unless it is legacy code already done with DW.

Just that I can work with Legacy code done with DW. Also use it to transfer old Front Page sites to HTML. This is what I now use it for more than anything. I use the most updated DW.

Intuitive buttons that make it easy to slice buttons

Actual process of creating website thru cutting buttons.

Website

It's versatility is simply amazing. Its uses range from a-z

It is difficult for me to use. Photoshop is easier and I prefer poster my wall.

No problems (besides I do not know how to use it well) and it benefits the business by giving us the highest-quality ads.

There is nothing I like about Dreamweaver best. Adobe has always had horrible customer service and product support.

Adobe's offering of Dreamweaver through Creative Cloud has been the worst experience. The program is extremely slow to load and crashes often. Everything about Creative Cloud is slow and buggy. Update downloads fail often. Constant reminders to log in or establish an internet connection. Too many programs running in the background. Software always updating and changing.

The perpetual licensing model was a better approach because you could settle on a stable version and not have to deal with upgrades or never ending payments for a product that is becoming outdated.

I heavily rely on adobe's creative suite and love the integration, however, Dreamweaver just seem's like the 90's web developer's approach to dev.

It feels clunky to use and as a full all in one app like it can't keep up with ever changing dev needs.

I am not, I instead use a bunch of separate apps to be able to accomplish a range of development needs on a range of scopes.

Netbeans and or Microsoft Visual Studios

How obsolete it's become. There are many others that people prefer to use vs. Dreamweaver. It hasn't managed to become one of Adobe's better products such as Photoshop and Illustrator, unfortunately.

Creating websites.

That it's part of creative cloud and works through Adobe.

Requires a lot of knowledge to use correctly. Not the easiest for beginners.

coding

It's very good for beginners, however I feel for pro developers it doesn't work.

It's too bloated for coders. It's more home suite than professional.

It was good to start off with.

features an easily accessible WYSIWYU section

not the usual keyboard shortcuts text editors/IDEs use, can't drag out windows entirely

able to view HTML code outside of content management system

Technically, I enjoy the autonomy of the product and how if you have coding-design skills you are free to make any changes you'd like. So we enjoy the fact that it is clean, colored, and the Find and Replace function works like a dream. So I enjoy those features very much because not all text editors have them available.

I am not a coder and I don't have much experience with design myself. So I prefer content management software such as WordPress. Dreamweaver doesn't offer the same pre-made templates other software does. I often avoid creating my own CSS and HTML pages. I can edit them well enough, but if you are not a coder, this software is not for you.

We used Dreamweaver to soft coding issues. So the original designer would send in their CSS sheets and JavaScript and we could edit changes. We are able to solve issues such as compatibility between our codes. Especially if the original site we are migrating or restructuring came from a different developer.

This Software has evolved to keep up with new responsive web standards. This has been the biggest plus. I had stopped using it for some time as the code was bloated and very hard to clean up. I not use it for quick setup and find the code is much nicer to edit.

The code can get bloated and hard to figure out if you use too many embedded objects. the layout and styling could be better. It needs a quick button/link mode to create UI mockups.

I use it for quick layout and creating some html 5 templates to test designs. I rarely use it for the final output as I do not need to write the final code.

Flexibility of program in developing marketing material

Long learning curve to use the product in marketing design

None yet

Dreamweaver is a good learning tool. You can use the split design/code view to see what you're working on. For those who are just learning coding, it is really nice.

Dreamweaver have a lot of different bugs. It has gotten better over the years, but many of the auto coding is just not quite right, it adds unnecessary code. It makes coding a lot less clean.

I did minor web design editing with Dreamweaver. While it was nice for hmtl/css pages, it doesn't work well with PHP.

I like the real-time visual progress of what I am coding. We only use it for WYSIWYG purposes - testing out email templates before pasting the html into our intranet email blasting system. I like that I do not have to hit refresh (like I would if I were testing it in an actual browser).

I guess it isn't that I dislike anything in particular, it's just that other text editors such as Sublime Text are more intuitive. It's just the way it was done before I got here so I continued to do it this way, but now that I think about it, I don't really need to be using DreamWeaver at all. I don't think WYSIWYG is its intended purpose, but maybe it is! If my company didn't already pay for Creative Suite, I wouldn't buy this product.

It is easier to solve problems in the html while in DreamWeaver, rather than doing it in the text editor built into our own intranet system, because in our own system, there isn't text color-coding, shortcuts, etc. So that is still a benefit of using DreamWeaver, but honestly I am so used to using Sublime Text that I almost prefer to do it there and test it in the browser even though I would have to refresh the browser to see my result.

Dreamweaver was the first HTML editor that I used, and as a coder, it's probably my least favorite.

A lot of things. First and foremost, many versions of DreamWeaver would automatically insert table cells for no reason. The preview pane was also not the most accurate.

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It is a very simple web programming software forbeginnerspeople, it is very intuitive and it is great to start programming, it is compatible with most programming languages

It is not a program as powerful as the competition, if you need a powerful web programming software there are other much better and more modern options

I used this software at the beginning of my professional career, I currently use other better options

Dreamweaver DOES help me visualize and define HTML and CSS elements.

For creating modern, responsive websites, it is way too clunky and awkward for everyday use.

Whenever i need to create CSS definitions, Dreamweaver is a convenient tool.

Dreamweaver is good if you're a beginning coder. Some of it's pros include being able to see how your coding impacts your site design in real time, giving users recommendations when they're stuck coding, and checking your coding for you as you go. In that sense, it is a great learning tool for those who are starting off in the industry.

As mentioned, Dreamweaver is good if your just starting off in the coding world. If you're more advanced, you'll want a more sophisticated product. One of the issues our team had was that it is NOT browser based so how your coding looks in Dreamweaver may be different then when you go live. Further, global styling is such a mess with Dreamweaver - you could end up with several dozen undefined styles that interrupt the global styling of the site itself!

Our team was looking for a coding software when we tried Dreamweaver since it was part of the package our company had with Adobe. After a few months, we realized that it was more for those learning to code or coding off to the side for fun and it didn't meet our business needs. We ended up switching to another program that was more for experienced coders and for businesses rather than leisure.

I had always heard of the greatness of Adobe Dreamweaver and was excited to purchase it for the ease of designing a new website. That quickly changed as I began working the software.

I was definitely wrong. The lack of ease to utilizing this software made it next to impossible for the average creative to dive right in. Way too much. I needed much more time and knowledge to learn the software.

Redeveloping the website for a modern look and feel.

I do enjoy the workspace the Dreamweaver provides. It is a great tool for developing and debugging.

It is however slow and clunky. It often freezes or renders sites in an incomplete way.

Developing sites, emails, landing pages and support portals.

You really are in control of the output.

It's a bit clunky in use, you can't really see what you're doing as you do it.

Web design.

Dreamweaver is a nice tool to be able to visualize the impacts that you make to your code. It also, in my opinion, is a nice software for those who are new(er) to coding.

I have taken two courses on Dreamweaver as a part of my college curriculum and having had a good deal of experience with the software, I would not opt to use it for my coding needs. It seems to further convolute the coding process. The BIGGEST gripe that I have with the software is that it is counterintuitive for designers.

We use(d) Dreamweaver as tool to build and maintain our corporate brochure site.

Dreamweaver was a big step up from manual HTML coding

It's not intuitive, navigation is tricky and the learning curve is steep

Website building to reach new customers

Well supported software from the Adobe brand and good integration with other Adobe software.

Outdated, clunky, not great for beginners, overwhelmed by buttons, options.

Great integrations with adobe software, creating efficient workflows, team management.

I am not a fan of this product. I never went to deep into the world of web design but I suppose it does give you some good positioning abilities

I found it to be very clumpy and not user friendly. I did end up moving on to something easier fairly quick after frustration with this program.

build company websites

I like how it allows beginners to dabble in web design. It used to be the premier tool for web designers.

With lack of updates, it has become obsolete. Hardly anyone uses it anymore because there are much more effective tools available.

I am not solving any business problems. I simply use it to verify my work as a web specialist.