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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 541330, member: 6370&quot;]you are certainly entitled to your opinion and I can certainly disagree. Dreamweaver has never been buggy for me, its interface is so simple to use there is far less learning curve involved than learning HTML...its easy for you to say &#039;learn this or that...&quot; but some people simply dont want to learn HTML, they just want to put up a site and if they can find a good program that will generate the code for them, thats all they want and in the end, its all they need. Some people dont care to become a proficient HTML programmer, they just want an easy way to put up pages and there are plenty of options out there for them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With a free program you STILL must learn how to use that free program...you have no support if it IS buggy and often its just more trouble than it worth....but in the end...its whatever works for you...I have so often found that you get what you pay for when using free junk...you often get junk. Dreamweaver works for me, its easy to use, low learning curve, it has all the functions one needs to build a fully functional website, its an all in one package.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Like with Gimp, I downloaded it and then realize I have to download a hundred other add-ons just to get CLOSE to Adobe out of the box....and then, as I have pointed out clearly here before...its not as good as PS...patchwork user based support...for web graphics its okay I guess...but if you can get adobe PS for free...why bother with that patchwork junk....its just a pain.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>as for the price...that might be a problem for some, I dont pay for my software so its a non-issue...in the end...most software for me is freeware so if I am getting it all for free, I might as well get the best.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Like I said before, I have been working on website and graphics for more years than I can count (my job) and in the beginning I used only HTML and a text editor. I chose to use dreamweaver because its faster and easier and I can see the page as I build it instead of programming...view....fix problems...view...fix other problems...view...search for the right code I need to use for a function...place it...view...fix...etc...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>HTML is rather easy if you want to build a stripped down basic site but the more complicated features you want to use, the more complicated the code becomes (input fields, graphical rollovers, search features, flash,etc..)...still not that hard but still requires you learn the code and the code becomes more and more complex. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Its all in what you are looking for...if you want a quick easy way to set up a website, dreamweaver is just fine, if you want to learn HTML, go for it...you certainly will understand how it is structured...all dreamweaver, frontpage, and other web authoring programs are are code generators with a graphical front end...some are better than others.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want a cheap alternative to Dreamweaver, there is always frontpage...but more than any other, that program puts garbage, extraneous code in, leaves code when you delete a table, so it requires more clean-up than dreamweaver.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the end, there is no need to bicker about it...if you want to learn HTML, go that route, if you want to use a code generator, there is nothing at all wrong with that...these are just personal choices one makes. I chose to use PS because I got it for free and I like it much better than Gimp...I chose to use Dreamweaver because I got it for free and its less of a pain when putting together a complicated extensive website than programming everything myself...simple as that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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