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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by agumonkey »

neom wrote: post #13

I do!!!!!! I love dreamwaver even today, I'm surprised people don't use it, they have done an amazing job keeping it up to date - it's honestly a joy to use. Granted: I'm not a real dev/swe, just a dude who likes to mess around with webtech, still, I think "real devs" would enjoy it too, it's great to use. I learn web on dreamweaver, I would make something on the front end WYSIWYG editor, and then "turn it around" (I…

heh, late 90s war3z was larger than I thought.

ps: Kevin Lynch got a nice career now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Lynch_(computing)

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by jszymborski »

zer0x4d wrote: post #26

An ode to Dreamweaver Dreamweaver was how I learned MySQL back when I was 12-13 and got into web development. I don't remember how I came across it but somehow things, the way they were laid out at the time, made sense to me. This would ripple into a career that's making my living 16 years later. I remember downloading XAMPP and installing it to get a local MySQL and PhpMyAdmin server. A few clicks in Dreamweaver lat…

I loved the XAMPP logo

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by jszymborski »

graypegg wrote: post #56

Around the same time, I was using Coda actually! https://web.archive.org/web/20101007013748/http://panic.com/... I had only used dreamweaver a small amount at highschool, but the imac we had at home had a Coda license on it. While I don't think I could comfortably use Dreamweaver to make something today, Coda is possibly usable. Coda 2 since came out which I never tried, and now it's a new editor called Nova, which I…

I always envied Coda users.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by WillAdams »

Don't look at me, I'm still bummed that Navipress (which later became AOLpress) didn't survive --- though a certain Tim Berners-Lee did use it to write a book about the web:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/

Similarly, NVU and Amaya both went away --- is there anything up-to-date which will do web design interactively?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by bdcravens »

hnuser123456 wrote: post #5

Nobody uses it to build anything professional, it's a cute toy

While you are correct that few are using it to build "professional" sites, it was never really a toy. Pretty powerful for the time, and even let you integrate with a number of backend technologies, database servers, etc. For today's world, where you need 3000 Javascript packages to display "Hello World", it's not a good fit.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by jval43 »

nemosaltat wrote: post #79

I 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 Fi…

Tools like FileMaker, Dreamweaver and others empowered regular people to do "personal computing" and allowed them to help themselves build the tools they needed.

It seems to me like that was a golden age of genuine personal computing that went by too fast and with many avenues left unexplored.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?

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Post by bdcravens »

markx2 wrote: post #20

I probably tried to use a pirated version of Dreamweaver. But I loved HomeSite. https://nick.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/homesite-discontinued....

Homesite was the first editor I used extensively for web development (after trying some of the other options like HotDog Pro, etc). It was small enough, and simple enough, that you could run it directly from a 1.44mb floppy. (I was poor in college and relied on computer labs) Later went on to use Allaire's ColdFusion Studio, which was a superset of Homesite, for several years.
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