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I... don't know what to say. You do know that Dreamweaver has a rather advanced code editor (for hand coding, as you say) in addition to the visual editor?

It's super bloated, but it's by no means worse than any other editor out there...

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#3
> I was eager to find out how they made their site. I had asked booth groups and they each answered, “Dreamweaver.” “Oh. Nice.”, I thought, trying to hold back any laughter that I may have had. I was also asked the same question in return, saying “I hand coded it.” I was given the deer in the headlights stare. I don’t know if I received this look because they had no idea what I meant/said, or if they were in such awe of my superiority. To me it didn’t matter what their reaction was because I was going to win.

> I was curious enough to ask them to view their app and website. Was I shocked that their site was pretty bad? No. I had a gut feeling it was going to be horrific. Just before they left to present, I handed one of their team members one of my business cards and said for him to send me an email if he ever wanted my services – they were in definite need of them.

Ugh.

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#4
"Now, I didn’t necessarily see the winning groups site, but you don’t have to – it was made in Dreamweaver!"

I want to believe that the arrogant tone in combination with this line are some sort of punch line or social experiment that I'm just not getting. Please?

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#5
Many design studios use Dreamweaver, because it's part of the Adobe suite and it has an interface most of them are familiar with.

You are aware that you can "hand-code" in Dreamweaver? Along with the WYSIWYG editor, there is a normal code editor.

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Why is he so super elitist about "hand coding" a website?

I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life.

Being elitist always sucks no matter how awesome you are... but come on we are talking about a webdesign competition, not some x86_64 assembly hacking event. This is ridiculous.

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#8
Could you provide links to your site and the "dreamweaver" site so we can judge the quality of their work and yours?

By the way, are you fully aware of what DreamWeaver entails? we use it on smaller projects all the time, simply as a great code editor with some convenient features (incl. library includes, test servers etc etc). It works well for hand-coding, so use of DW doesn't need to imply anything more than which code editor the other team preferred.

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