Not that I entirely disagree but ... what was the last version of DW you used in production work?

II last used DW in production (not exclusively but used it) for a project in 2008. I look at it every time they upgrade via the CS.

I find it out of touch, bloated and hopelessly lost as an application for serious commercial developers who are on a deadline using OSX/Unix platforms.

I stick to my guns there are better workflows that do not requite DW in them.

Down with Dreamweaver! Bring back Golive! ;)

You may be being funny? But Golive was not a bad product and had potential. It was a major error to nail it and the competing technologies sidelined for the Macromedia crap.

Macromedia was such a fail to buy them at the price they paid. That money would have been BETTER SPENT putting it into in house technology. By now Macromedia alone would be worth half what they paid and the products Adobe killed overtaken them making Adobe worth double.

The rise of Apple HTML5/CSS3/javascript frameworks etc would have nailed Macromedia stock price right down.

Of course I have hindsight....

I'm not being funny at all! I used GoLIve from when it was GoLive CyberStudio. I loathe Dreamweaver! But have had to use it since GoLive was discontinued. Well I can still use GL, but I figured at some point it's going to stop working, so I might as well bite the bullet and see what I can do in DW.

As an example, look at the truly awful templates that come with DW, and then look at the examples that came with GL. GL was a lot more flexible with layouts, and you could be very creative. It was like a page layout program. DW is clunky and you are forced to either use tables or CSS, and CSS was never meant to be used for graphic elements. Most of the sites done with CSS all look the same... boring! DW isn't too bad once you have set up a nice template, and the GUI is getting more Adobe like. But I wish they would bring some of the cool features that GL had into DW. It was really far more advanced IMHO.

I feel the same way about how Adobe killed FreeHand. The last version of FreeHand from ten years ago still does things way better then the current version of Illustrator.