SEF6  Adobe has never been a Mac friendly company. They remain belligerently loyal to the Windows of the world. They're continually making the statement "Yes, we can make money off Mac users, but certainly not at our taint."

As powerful as Photoshop Elements is, can you get any further from the Mac interface in the Mac version of Elements 6? Dark charcoal grey menus are awful to interact with as a GUI in a graphics app, but it does say "We don't need no stinkin' Macs".

So why do I patronize Adobe? I'm bonded to Dreamweaver since the days of "Studio 3" and Macromedia (which didn't understand Apple much better than Adobe), and I'm too old for a new learning curve and site migration tom-foolery. Fortunately for me, Adobe hasn't vested the time/energy into dramatically changing Dreamweaver interface ("we are not worthy") so that I, intellectually vested in the 1980's interface, am still comfortable with Dreamweaver of 2009, CS4 from my "Dreamweaver 3" days. Comfortable with it's awkwardness, which is a very weird staement, and certainly counterproductive to creativity.

Adobe knows it has acquired some powerful, necessary applications. Their resistance to the Mac platform's GUI is almost comical in it's PC fundamentalism. It is certainly a left-handed compliment of the Mac's encroachment into The World.

Yes, Adobe "support" helped me with the upgrade issues I had with my purchase of CS4. The only reason I did the upgrade was because Snow Leopard made DW MX 2004 unusable. I was forced to upgrade. Of course I was sent the wrong upgrade product and the wrong serial number. Of course my first attempt at online correction wouldn't let me upgrade from DW MX 2004. After numerous emails, the second attempt at correction also failed. I eventually succeeded with a 30 minute phone call. It took a total of 6 weeks for me to be able to edit/access my sites. Since I had done this after my migration to Mac OSX 10.6, I did not have the easy file migration option. I had not done an "export" option in the "Mange Sites" menu. I didn't know it would be important when I upgraded to Mac OSX 10.6. So now I finally had a valid copy of DW, but I couldn't access my sites. Now what? Reinstall Mac OS X 10.5 so I can access my older DW files and "Save as..."? It took a lot of online searching to finally be directed to which 16kb file held the "keys to the kingdom". When I finally did this, I was good to go. But 6 weeks, many hours, and a huge PITA!

When EVER have you done ANY Mac app upgrade that was not intuitive, that didn't handle all of the file conversions invisibly and properly. And succeeded?

They all do.

Except Adobe.

Yes, they have powerful and useful apps. If ANYTHING comes along that does all the same stuff in a "Mac way" (you all know what I mean: clear/clean/concise), I'll quickly jump ship.

I really don't understand Adobe's refusal to become "Mac-friendly". We're out there, waiting. For Adobe or any respectable Plan B. At this point, I'm rooting for "Plan B"  
(Version 10.0.0.4117)

SAVO33BRAVO THE LIAR  Funny thing is, that screenshot which represents DRW review on this review page is one from many things which are missing in DRW CS4 ...

Today world is about a visuals and I can hardly comprehend, that someone see a beauty of design trough number and scripts ... Like ADOBE PROGRAMERS DO ...

Designing www pages should be a designer delight not math exam ...

Layout style from GoLive should not be forgotten by Adobe since it was a pleasure to work with GoLive from creative point of view ...

The CS4 is unpleasant to work with. Period.  
(Version 10.0.0.4117)

JAN13  Here I am again after heavy-duty use of DRW CS4.

My experience is, that if ADOBE will do nothing about this square windows like web creator and editor I have too personally find some other options.

DRW CS4 is absolutely unfriendly web page creator. There are some companies like WEBASSIST etc., which like to easy and bridge these DRW CS4 deficiencies however in many instances, you will dig your self in to deeper problems.

DRW CS4 is a WORST upgrade ever for DRW.

DRW CS4 is NO, NO, NO for true Mac web-graphic designer. I am dreaming back about GoLive which was fantastic web design creator. It was truly a tool where one can focus only on one thing. Design and functionality of web page.  
(Version 10.0.0.4117)

GEOPICK  Without a doubt, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is the worst upgrade I have ever seen from a major software publisher. Make that any publisher. I have been using CS3 since it was released to fairly good measure. CS4 is so slow that it is completely unusable on my machine (iMac 2.4 GHz dual running OSX 10.5.6). In split view, it takes 10-15 seconds for selected text to highlight. I am running no extensions, and my local site is on my local computer. I have searched all over the Web for a solution, and found much discussion of this problem in Dreamweaver and other CS4 applications. There is hardly a mention anywhere in Adobe's support site. The program runs like a non-optimized beta. I'm thinking it could be caused by Flex or weird Java. Does anyone have any suggestions at all? I've now reinstalled CS3 on the same computer, and it runs fine.  
(Version 1.0)

JAN13  Dreamweaver CS4 is with out any question web page layout machine. Loaded with features unfortunately hidden like pirates treasures from fifteen century.

To layout page is another issue. Frames are totally NO (!) since search engines do not like it and so you are left over, with tables. CSS is of course way to go how ever you have to be discovery expert like Robinson Crusoe to find operating futures with ease ...

ADOBE is trumpeting new interface witch is in compare to obsolete GoLive like a joke. Dramweaver is unfriendly application. Period!

If I would not know Dreamweaver form inside out and out site in that well I will definitely look for other options in web page design world, where these options are virtually non. Freeway Pro 5.x is a very nice program but lack of programing is unfortunate.

Anyhow. Dreamweaver CS4 is in one way a huge disappointment. It was suppose to be a mature product in this stage of development but it is not.

I think, that if ADOBE will not listen those who use and buy their product, they ADOBE will end up very much same like Quark some years ago. Very much like today auto makers who are asking for billions in aids to safe the auto industry !!!   
(Version 1.0)

DANA SUTTON  I do not need the improved features of Dreamweaver CS4. I do need fixes for the many serious and annoying bugs in CS3. Adobe has never released a single bugfix upgrade for CS3 (with the exception of one upgrade for localized language versions). Instead, they have delayed fixing the bugs pending the release of CS4. From my point of view, therefore, I am being asked to pay a huge price for fixing the problems inherent in CS3. The normal assumption in the software industry is that the cost of fixing bugs and issuing corrected versions is rolled into the purchase price of the software, and that a software developer has a responsibility to exercise due diligence in issuing such upgrades promptly so that the product functions as advertised. Despite the very high price of the various items in the CS suite and the high price of upgrades, Adobe does not adhere to this industry-standard way of fair dealing with its customers, and I can confidently predict that any bugs that come to light in CS4 will not be fixed until CS5. I. m. h. o., therefore, Adobe is an unethical company that mistreats its customer base. This is an intolerable situation and I, refuse to fork over any more money to these people.   
(Version 1.0)

HENDO  Contrary to what most of you think I think Dreamweaver 8.0.2 is still a fantastic program. I built my current website with it extremely fast. I really don't care about the minor bugs cuz they are not ones that affect my web design.   
(Version 8.0.2)

JEFF H.  FTP is gone on my G5...

I upgraded some time ago from MX2004 to DW8. The FTP capabilties on my G5 are gone...I get all kinds of FTP error notices.

I finally gave up and just upload with Transmit. Yes, it is an extra step, but I'm so used to it now that I just automatically open both.

(trust me, I've tried it all, I've been at this awhile, but if there're suggestions, or if others have had this same experience and know the fix, I welcome suggestions)

As far as DW8, other than the FTP thing (which I don't know if I can pin on DW8 anyway, as I can't seem to upload in MX2004 from my G5 anymore either, but my G4 will work with both!), it seems to be ok...again, I'm not connecting to my remote folders, so there's not a sync-slowdown going on. I like the extra features and it's never crashed, so I guess you can say I'm ok with it  
(Version 8.0.2)

ARES  After a couple of months and a previous good review, I must admit there are too many little bugs to enjoy v8. 8.0.2 is still buggy and slow. Back to MX :-(  
(Version 8.0.2)

EHECU  As much as I've enjoyed Dreamweaver in the past, somewhere along the line Macromedia went wrong. The new versions are slow, clunky, and buggy. Not just major bugs, but weird stuff that comes up and, though it may only delay you a few seconds to fix it, creates a constant stream of interruptions when you really need to get things done.

I totally agree with the poster below... There's a gap here that needs to be filled, and I wouldn't mind paying for it so long as it runs at a decent speed and works like it's supposed to.  
(Version 8.0.2)