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March 10, 2021
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Will Adobe ever provide in-depth training for Dreamweaver ?

  • March 10, 2021
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Dreamweaver has become very frustrating over the past few years. You would think that if one pays a monthly subscription, it would be common sense for Adobe to provide in-depth training. Having clients with different needs, we have to often look for solutions outside of Dreamweaver. Is there any valid reason for sticking with Dreamweaver ?

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 10, 2021

Hi @Peter Carr,

Dreamweaver is nothing but a glorified code editor and site management tool.  If you can work with code, it takes no time to learn DW.  Apart from the UI and menus, DW hasn't changed much in all the years I've been using it.

 

Start here:
- https://www.w3schools.com/html/
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/
- https://www.w3schools.com/js/


DW 2021 Classroom in a Book by James Maivald is available on Amazon.com

 

Post specific product questions here and this community of fellow product users will be happy to help you.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Legend
March 10, 2021

Is there any valid reason for sticking with Dreamweaver ?

 

Sorry, but I cant think of many. The only reasons might be you like a visual development approach or can't do without it and its file management is pretty good. In every other aspect it's unfortunately way off the pace, in my opinion, in terms of keeping up-to-date with modern web development and what some other available web-development tools offer.

 

If you're a proficient coder then its passable as an editor but still lacks a lot of extensions which are useful even to coders and can be found in other programs but if you are not a coder then something else may be a better option these days.

 

Sorry, I cut my teeth on DW and used it for many years but in recent times its gone backwards with little in the way of incentives to want to get back onboard plus its way, way overpriced if you are considering using it as a stand alone product in comparrison to competitors, which offer more options for coders for much less money.

 

B i r n o u
Legend
March 10, 2021

beside its online help, https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/tutorials.html, adobe has always supported the books published by Campus Press throught the classroom in a book's series.


then, as soon as online courses were democratised, it became usual that organisations such as lynda.com moved towards this type of service. it is true that now linkedin, encompasses a large number of these courses


I don't know if when one subscribe, one implicitly subscribe to one or other of these providers, or if one get a specific discount. I would be the least well placed person to discuss such a subject, as I am in conflict with the tutorials I have published, or as an ACP.