[serpicolugnut]

I used to use Dreamweaver every day. When Adobe bought it, I had high hopes. After DWCS3 though, I moved on. It is a bloated piece of garbage.
I now use Coda primarily, but also TextMate. Coda is the web IDE for real men who don't need (or want) a WYSIWYG editor that produces cruddy code.

[spacebrain]

to serpicolugnut : Real men use MS/DOS and a monochrome screen.
:-)

[davebarnes]

@dfs
I have always been able to cut from Word 2004 and then successfully paste into DW.
However, I could not do the same with Word 2008 and I went back to 2004.
Are you saying that you cut from Word 2008 and paste into DW?
thanks,
dave

[acknight]

"One simple question: Can I copy in MS Word 2008 and paste into DW CS4 and have it work correctly?"

If the beta was any indication, they've fixed the problem that prevented that from working. My copy of CS4 final hasn't arrived yet, but it should work in the final version as well.

[dfs]

Yup. Before posting my reply to you yesterday I tested it again and it worked fine. Note, just in case your curious, if you cut-and-paste from Pages into Dreamweaver you lose your formatting.

[zoe5]

i'm late coming on the scene. I'm just now personally experiencing how slow Dreamweaver CS3 runs on a mac, and yep, its HORRIBLE. I was using CS2 on a PC and just recently, happily, went back to the Mac side of things. And CURSE Adobe, DW CS3 stinks! So my questions are, will DW4 have the same lag when images are relative and not absolute, or when php includes are used throughout, or when external CSS is used primarily? Or is my best bet Coda? And if Coda is for nerds, please explain. I think as designers, we all have to be somewhat nerdy to get the job done.

[Flaming_Carrot]

Coda is not a WYSIWYG app, so unless you can hand code then it is not for you (though it does have various tools to ease the coding). If you can hand code then it is great, fast and very stable solution - and it uses the FTP engine lifted from Transmit, which is another great Panic product.
Also has no problem with php or whatever language you want to build you dynamic sites with.

[Ratbite]

Downloaded the trial and had it crash twice in the first five minutes (just like DWCS3, it doesn’t like to preview quicktime content and this has not been fixed). Everything I found annoying about CS3 (after starting to move over from GL) is still firmly in place in 4 (for example, you still can’t open folders – only expand then… how very windows of them). Don’t get me wrong, I have never been a big fan of GL, but the bottom line on this: same old turd, though some users may find some new icing on one end.

[OBI656]

Dreamweaver is definitely leading web creation software however ADOBE as company is champ of black-list, of how they tread their customers in these days ....
For that reason we, as a design studio we are looking for alternatives where FREEWAY PRO 5 as well as CODA are well suited options ! Excellent customer support and very nice people to deal with !!!

[OBI656]

The Dreamweaver CS4 as much proclaim application in web design come with its release also with a lot of surprises ,,. To experienced creative designer this application in comparability with GolIve, is no more then less like CorelDraw the Windows celebrated application.
For Mac users being custom of intuitive and creatively focus flow of work this application is like spike in to brain … Philosophy behind this latest release of Dreamweaver CS4 is like scratching left ear with a right hand …
What was good was replaced with some flake gimmicks witch are confusing and and completely useless. Sure enough, ADOBE is a BIG company able to afford what ever they think will fly … well I do not know, but I am sure, that what goes around comes around. Software such as FreeWay Pro will defiantly take a lot of designers on their side and as it look like in next couple of releases, most likely the rest.
Simple, intuitive and most important time not consuming creative approach is a winning ticket of FreeWay Pro over Dreamweaver CS4 which we will return on this coming Monday back to Adobe asking for refund!