My dad does. He prefers older versions though (and he switched from FrontPage)
Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#72Dreamweaver, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember using it in highschool to build websites during a web design class. I always thought it ended up being discontinued by Adobe and replaced by various web frameworks, but maybe I'm thinking of Microsoft Frontpage
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#73I had to read the question twice. Dreamweaver was the go-to in 2010 ? I think it was already well on its decline by then. At a new job in 2003 one of my first tasks was to generate new “heat map” code since the company was updating the background image file for 50-state map interfaces. Dreamweaver had the best interface for doing that work, so I got a copy and spent a couple days carefully tracing the 50 state outlin…
Yeah I used it at my first job in 2000 which was essentially a webmaster job my local college. But 2001 we were already moving away from it as we started to embed PHP here and there, and eventually start building full-blown apps inline into the website (replacing poorly integrated ColdFusion stuff developed in isolation by some other department back in the 90s).
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#74No, but I actually named my company's flagship software "Laneweaver" (logistics industry) as an homage to what once was a great product.
Adobe will probably read this and sue me.
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#75I had no idea that you could even still get a copy of Dreamweaver anymore, but a quick search seems to confirm that, indeed, you can still get it. As a teenager I used to use a pirated copy of Dreamweaver, and it was cool but I eventually just learned HTML since I found that the stuff I wrote ended up being better than the stuff being generated by Dreamweaver, and of course that had the advantage of being legal and f…
Macromedia didn't mind the piracy at the time. People learned from pirated versions and then went to work in companies that bought licenses. They bootstrapped the company with that tactic. Same with Flash.
Not trying to make the piracy seem "right" or anything, but I would like to point out that I didn't make any money with the pirated Macromedia software either. I made a couple cartoons that got blammed on Newgrounds, did the examples in the Animator's Survival Kit, and then decided I'm not smart enough to be creative and did software instead.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#76I had to read the question twice. Dreamweaver was the go-to in 2010 ? I think it was already well on its decline by then. At a new job in 2003 one of my first tasks was to generate new “heat map” code since the company was updating the background image file for 50-state map interfaces. Dreamweaver had the best interface for doing that work, so I got a copy and spent a couple days carefully tracing the 50 state outlin…
Funny story, I'm a SWE and my wife used to work as a marketing manager. Her boss wanted her to make something similar, a heat map over a U.S. map. Except he wanted it to work in Excel. She asked me about it and I told her I could code something like that, but no way inside Excel... Sure enough, she hacked on it for a while and was able to actually build a functioning heat map in Excel. I have no idea how it works. I'…
Excel is not merely Turing-complete, but a step above, able to achieve dark things best left unsaid.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#77Weird quirk I inherited from Dreamweaver: I used a bootlegged/trial version in high school to learn coding and it would close itself every few minutes so I would Ctrl+S every few seconds to save my progress. I still do that to this day even though all my Jetbrains IDEs auto-save.
I think I still have my webassist.com PHP extensions for Dreamweaver somewhere on my hard drive from 2008.
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#78I got my (professional) start with it but very quickly grew out of it when I got a job working on real websites. But I do have fond memories of its editor. To this day I’m still confused how their built in scripts were supposed to work, especially their auth flow.
My first real editor was Netscape Composer.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#79I was using DreamWeaver in maybe 2006-2007. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Back then we were CRUD web apps with a FileMaker backend and there was an integration where you could drag database fields straight out of FMP7 into DreamWeaver and it would automatically create the correct PHP (also 6 or 7 back then) code for your form.
I coded up a simple CRUD in Streamlit yesterday (needed a simple way for my Field guys to create professional looking PDF trip reports) but it still took me longer than that workflow used to. Our tooling really seems far behind where it ought to be. The whole time I was writing it, I was thinking why did I stop using PHP for stuff like this?
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?
#80People keep telling me to use Dreamweaver but I stick with what works: FrontPage 98
FrontPage Express was what I used to build my first website. (personal project with friends) I learned so much about HTML simply because of the limitations in FrontPage Express.
Same. I built a rockin Pokemon website with it when I was 9.