cannot open application, power pc not accepted - Dreamweaver MX 2004

[julier60585104]

Hello

I have an old version of Dreamweaver - it's MX 2004 which I have been using on a PC to make updates to a website.

I am not a developer, I just have basic knowledge of how to use it to update our own site.  I would like to move the program over to my mac, I still have the original discs but I am receiving a message "cannot open application, power pc not accepted.  My mac is on OS XEL Capitan.    Does anyone know if I will be able to run the program and how I do it?   I don't really need to purchase the new Dreamweaver as I don't use it often enough.  Many thanks to anyone who may be able to help.

[pziecina]

Download a trial, the lack of color is 90% of the reason users want color coding.

Without color coding in code view, the entire ui is like looking at a blank piece of paper, and just as informative.

[osgood_]

pziecina wrote:

Without color coding in code view, the entire ui is like looking at a blank piece of paper, and just as informative.

Sounds like I may like it then. I'm into minimal coloring in the coding environment and I really cannot take to the new trendy dark themes with syntax in an array of vibrant colors, which most themes seem to have in most editors, with a few poor light themes thrown in as an after thought. Thankfully they are customisable, albeit it tricky in Atom and Sublime , a little better in Brackets but Adobe should revert back to its old coloring scheme, php storm is exceptional when it comes to ease for coloring code.

[pziecina]

The set-up I use in Dw is the developer view, with dark grey ui, then dark code view, using the standard code coloring.

The problem with that is that it is no more than what one gets in VS code, with a file manager and ftp extension, and that's free.

[osgood_]

pziecina wrote:

The set-up I use in Dw is the developer view, with dark grey ui, then dark code view, using the standard code coloring.

Even you have taken to the darkness............humm I must be one of the few that just cannot take it seriously. I like an editor to look quite boring because it looks more official and business like (all pychological I guess).

Anyway I'll stick to me basic 3/4 color coding theme with a nice clean white background for now.

pziecina wrote:

The problem with that is that it is no more than what one gets in VS code, with a file manager and ftp extension, and that's free.

I've not tried VS yet but looking at it and doing some Googling its the same at the rest. They are all the bloody same.

[John Waller]

I would like to move the program over to my mac, I still have the original discs but I am receiving a message "cannot open application, power pc not accepted. My mac is on OS XEL Capitan. Does anyone know if I will be able to run the program

For the record MX 2004 was written for old Macs which used PowerPC processors. Many years ago, Apple switched to Intel processors which are not compatible with PowerPC processors. Bottom-line: there's no way to get PowerPC apps such as MX 2004 to install or run on modern Macs such as yours.

As the others have suggested, try Brackets or Muse instead.

[pziecina]

Another possible replacement for Dw is Stylemaster pro -

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/

[paulk7737514]

Don't buy any Adobe software from Ebay, it's all pirated rubbish.