The response to my What version of Dreamweaver do you use? poll wasn’t overwhelming but I got enough responses (20 and counting) to make the results interesting. I’m going to keep the poll open in hopes of getting additional feedback(as I get more responses, I’ll add them here) but here’s a summary of the results so far:
Respondents were split just about down the middle between version CS3 and CS4 with 9 people indicating they used the newest version and 10 still using CS3 (although one of the CS3 users indicated he had dropped Dreamweaver in favor of another program). There was one holdout still using DW8 who indicated that he was happy with the program and didn’t plan to update (although lower cost could change his mind).
Not surprisingly, seven of the CS3 users indicated the cost of the upgrade was keeping them from moving up to CS4 and all of those folks plus the DW8 user indicated that lower cost was the main thing that would convince them to upgrade (although six of them would also like to see more features).
The new features folks would like to see include:
- Built-in integration with BrowserLab.
- ASP.NET support
- An Better FTP Interface.
- Less costly way for clients to update their sites than Contribute (they might want to check out CS4′s InContext Editing)
- html 5 support
- ability to work without css
- Support for all Spry widgets
- Making it easier to recover Site Definitions
Thanks to everyone who responded and, for everyone else, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to answer the survey questions now.
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Just getting into Dreamweaver. Experienced Adobe Ill and Photoshop user but finding DW daunting to get started. Appreciated you “Let’s Get Started…” tutorial and its first person instruction. I have Classroom in a Book but having difficulty retaining all the new protocols involved with building a website. I just want to get to the creative design side of the process but know there is this technical hurdle to get over first.
Intrigued by building and slicing technique with PS. What is your counsel for this 79 year old?
Thanks!
Stan Soderberg
Building and slicing in Photoshop is OK for building web pages if you don’t plan to do much modification. There are a lot of tutorials out there that can help you with the process.
For serious web development, I building and slicing in PS is fine for creating you images but it’s best to learn to work with CSS layouts (several really good ones are built in to Dreamweaver.