Why not a flex-width forum?

LOL

>Laugh if you will.

XD

I still think that Dreamweaver and FireWorks are the best on the market for what the do. Laugh if you will. And it was a Takeover. It was portrayed that way at MacroMedia. And I am apt to believe it. Maybe not in the Board room but everywhere else it was.

Sure PhotoShop is a great Program but at the price it is, its out reach for me. I've not tried the trial for InDesign, so I have no knowledge to comment. Between FireWorks, and GraphicConverter I can make do without PhotoShop. And with the upgrade from Studio 8 to equivalent Adobe product close to a $1000.00 It out of my Range at this time.

As for the comment about studio 8 being three versions behind I asked when it came out from MacroMedia and from Adobe when they took over MacroMedia 8 was around for a almost a year before a new version came out under Adobe. I got no result from either. In fact the response from Adobe was they never heard of the problem. That was the last contact from Adobe on the matter. It was dismissed as a crackpot question.

>They got a real catch when the Did the Take Over of Macromedia

I think Adobe got some pretty good programs with its acquisition of Macromedia, but Macromedia users were also winners, getting Photoshop, InDesign, and other great programs all bundled in the same suite. There's still a long way to go in improving interoperability, but I think it was a win-win situation.

Sorry to hear about your serial number problems, but I don't think you can blame the Dreamweaver user forum for not being able to answer that. Support for product licensing and installation are issues that can really be dealt with only by customer or technical support (and yes, I know that dealing with them can be very frustrating).

What makes your situation even more difficult is that you're using Studio 8, which was the last Macromedia version. Not only is Adobe technical support unlikely to know how to troubleshoot an installation issue with Studio 8, I believe that support is given only for the current and immediately preceding version. Studio 8 is three versions back, so it's no longer supported.

Wish I could offer more help, but I'm afraid I can't. Sorry.

> better than anything Adobe has even had twinkling in their eye about<br /><br />Yeah. Photoshop sucks, doesn't it. Nobody uses it. And people aren't fleeing Quark for InDesign, either, are they.<br /><br /><sarcasm off>

My history with DreamWeaver for Mac, was as far back Version 6. I now have the Studio 8 Pack and I still have a nagging problem I posted on group several times And gave up on.

Every once in a while, I have to re-enter Serial number to Studio 8 then Version 7 before it will activate. Then It dumps me to registration Page. I fill out, and hit register. But because its already registered it won't go any further. On the registration page I quit the page and it will stay activated for about a week. Then I have go through the process again, and again , and again ; week after week, after week, after week. I' tried news group Silence, I tried MacroMedia Support silence, I tried adobe support, silence. So I've resigned myself to do this about once a week. If I choose register later about a week later I would have to go through process again.

I Started out on X.3.9 and there was a patch program specifically for the problem but only works For X.3.9 not X.4.11. So as you can see I am soured to the MacroMedia groups.

Now DreamWeaver and Fire Works great programs and better than anything Adobe has even had twinkling in their eye about. They got a real catch when the Did the Take Over of Macromedia

> The didn't seem interested in answering from people just getting started.

Whatever your previous experience, that's definitely not the case in the Dreamweaver forums these days. The Dreamweaver forums get about 270 posts a day, so questions do sometimes get missed. The keys to getting an answer are the same as in any forum: a meaningful subject line and a clear explanation of the problem. With web page problems, it also helps to upload the problem page to a public website, and include the URL in the post.

I have a separate account from MacroMedia for DreamWeaver but haven't used in years because One I didn't like the look, and two I never could get answers to any questions. It appeared only experts that knew everything, were answering questions to experts that knew everything. The didn't seem interested in answering from people just getting started.

So if that account disappears I don't care. My email address tied both to webX and adobe are the same just user names were different. So I am hoping transition will be smooth.