I have to disagree with you folks. I operate a Web site which is very heavily text-oriented, and most of the time I use Dreamweaver as a kind of specialized word processor (I wouldn't have to do this if there were any actual word-processor which exported halfway decent text in html format, but I've tried them all and I can guarantee you that there isn't). My philosophy is to go in and write, or at least manipulate, actual code as little as possible. As I say, I use Dreamweaver, because it's the only Apple program on the market since the demise of such rivals as Claris Home Page. Well, okay, Dreamweaver is semi-lousy. It' got bugs that Adobe must know all about but has never bothered to fix, it's clumsy and over-complex, and its cost is outrageous. I'd replace it in a heartbeat if I had an alternative, but since there isn't it will remain the basic tool of my trade. And here's my point: I wouldn't bother you folks talking about myself if I imagined I were the only person in the world with needs like mine. But I bet there are plenty of us. I very much resent you guys trying to write the obituary of the WYSIWYG page creation program. As far as I'm concerned, it's as necessary a tool as it ever was.

With apps like Espresso and Coda available, there is hardly any reason to use this bloated and overpriced app. It is sluggish, it's FTP functionality is average at best, the text editor is poor when compared to others (i.e. horrible snippets functionality), it's "live preview" is tedious to use and the app is also rather cumbersome to use with a dual screen setup, which can be done wonderfully with, say, Espresso or even CSSEdit or Textmate.

With the $400 that DW costs, you can buy yourself Expresso 2, Transmit 4, MAMP Pro, VMWare Fusion and a Home Edition of Windows 7 (to test your sites in IE) and you would still have some money to buy a couple of books on HTML/CSS/JS. That's far more value than DW will ever give.

And I remember PageMill. SO if Dreamweaver is so lousy, what's the best alternative? I use Freeway and it seems okay for what I do: simple sites.

Once again, Adobe shows how they continue to drop the ball when it comes to their updaters. I updated to DW 11.0.4 (build 4493) yesterday via the Adobe Updater application. Today, the Adobe Updater application tells me there is another update for Dreamweaver, version 11.0.3! Yes, it's telling me the previous version is available to me for updating. And of course, when you try to run it, it fails. Adobe's CS updaters have been junk from day one and they still can't get it right.

bugs and just wonky overall.