Dreamweaver 2017 - A Waste Of Development Time

[Paul-M]

Please somebody tell me this:

Why has custom color coding been removed. I have been using my own customised colors.xml for YEARS and now it seems Adobe have in their infinite wisdom decided to take that ability away from me. UNBELIEVABLY ARROGANT !!!

Why has the ability to wrap a snippet been removed from the ui? - its BRAINLESS, ABSOLUTELY BRAINLESS, has nobody down at Adobe got a modicum of common sense?

I don't understand the point of the real-time preview, if I have a dev server set up http://localhost.dev/project/ for example how can I preview the files/site from within Dreamweaver as I normally would by accessing say http://localhost.dev/project/index.php for example and traverse an entire site? It seems I have to push the file to testing server, launch browser and enter address manually now if I want to preview the actual URL on the testing server?

The code view is buggy, sometimes the code dissapears

Code hints are bit flaky, when I was working on a CSS file the new code hint menu was bit jumpy and unresponsive/

I'm working on Windows 10 64 bit, desktop PC (i7 CPU 16GB RAM)

The whole point of Dreamweaver years ago was it's extensibility , I just don't think Adobe  really has much of a clue about Dreamweaver, the developers seem to be spending a lot of time stripping out useful features and removing some of its extensibility instead of adding useful/requested features. SVN integration has been broken forever and people have been crying out for GIT support instead Adobe screw with features that were perfectly OK anyway. I mean the snippets panel changes a re a bit of a joke really, aside from trigger keys which are useful, time seems to being wasted.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF US HAVE BEEN USING DREAMWEAVER FOR A LONG TIME, I WELCOME GREAT NEW FEATURES BUT I DON;T REALLY KNOW WHERE ADOBE ARE GOING WITH THIS, THEY SEEM HELL BENT ON MAKING LONG TERM USERS OF DREAMWEAVER LIFE'S HARD WORK BY STRIPPING FEATURES THAT our WORKFLOW IS BUILT AROUND.

Do the developers have any consideration for long-time users of Dreamweaver?

All in all aside from the code view/brackets integration, I really think most of what's been done is a waste of time quite frankly!!!!

[Nancy OShea]

It's possible to make mistakes which can result in coding errors.  Example, backspacing to remove content & removing the opening HTML tag.   Carelessly copying and pasting content from other sources.

Case is in your Preferences under Code format > Tag Libraries.  There is a drop down box for choosing default, uppercase, lowercase or mixed case tags. If source code is inconsistent, use Apply Source Formatting to fix it based on your Preferences.

Nancy

[ConsoleGenRL]

That's handy. You have to select every single tag to apply that setting individually. Brilliant!

[Carumba747]

I concur with all of the negative comments about Dreamweaver CC 2017. This is a mess, the program has cost me untold hours of time to use, I am afraid to reinstall 2015 based on some of the comments, my consideration now is to move to a different platform rather than ride the Adobe train wreck which costs $80.00 a month which is a minor cost compared to the lost productivity. How can a major software company release such buggy junk. The program was in beta for months, how were none of the problems cleaned up before releasing the production version? They never thought to check a Windows 10 machine with a Hi DPI setting above 100%? Really? Editing code directly is so difficult that it takes three attempts to get it right. Selecting an location in design view split locates in code view at either the top or bottom of the code view almost off the page which takes time to locate. I should have waited for months to upgrade knowing how long CC 2015 took to fix.

[Astley Marketing]

Ok, I know that this is a relatively old post now; but nothing seems to have improved!

I've just started using the Git built into Dreamweaver and have come across this thread while searching for "Dreamweaver 2017 Git Buggy".

All I would like is a notepad with built in SFTP, Code collapse, and Git the rest is just fluff that I can live without. But I now get code prompts stuck on screen every time I open a bracket or tab and have to escape or click off the popup. Search has been moved from a separate window to a panel, except that panel doesn't include search selected files or local site... thats under CMD+SHIFT+F now! It's needless changes that just don't help me.

Selecting PHP variables by double clicking the word selects everything except the $, CMD+SHIFT+LEFT selects the whole word with the dollar, so is the dollar part of the word or not!?

I FTP'd a file the other day, realised there was a mistake, CMD+Z / CMD+S / CMD+SHIFT+U to undo and upload the original... Dreamweaver "file.php - same - not transferred"??? Had to make another change just to get it to stick!

Its crazy, sadly its getting to the point where I can't trust Dreamweaver to be doing what it's claiming its done, and merging Git branches - well thats what got me here!!!

[BenPleysier]

All I would like is a notepad with built in SFTP, Code collapse, and Git the rest is just fluff that I can live without.

A good solution for you is Brackets. There are many extensions that can be added to this simple editor such as

If you, like myself, prefer to stick with Dreamweaver, please start new a discussion and explain the problem one at a time.

It may be a point of interest that I am enjoying GIT, have a look at GitHub - ben-pleysier/Bootstrap-4-template

[B i r n o u]

Yep I agree with Ben, in a way of such a tool already exist and is really helpfull... but I want go for Bracket... but for SublimeText. I use it since sometimes now, and it is really a must when it is question of pure coding....

[Astley Marketing]

Thanks guys for the suggestions, I've been round the route of trying any and many others before but inevitably revert back to dreamweaver because familiarity and speed - usually in not having to redefine sites or find add-ons/extensions to achieve the desired setup! I'll have a look at brackets and have tried sublime once before.

I'd love to stick with dreamweaver it has all of the parts I need, and its funny when new developers look at me like I'm a dinosaur for using it. I laugh at the fact that they have to put their software together, then get reminded why I'm no better off for using a supported (hmmm) and established tool for the job.

The age old simple example being: If I FTP lots of files from filezilla it takes half the time the dreamweaver does, probably because under the hood dreamweaver is doing something that caters for someone elses workflow. Git now feels the same; Click the button and it just sits there as though nothing is happening, so you click again and 20 seconds later you get a success message and a error message - which is it?! Whereas if I use terminal or command prompt its done in 10 seconds!!

Please Adobe: Do Less Better!

[Paul-M]

1. GIT supports seems to be working well  in the 2018 version and I for one think its a welcome addition, was overdue and it is very handy.
2. Still prefer the old code editor before brackets engine was introduced, I would have preferred the old code editor with some additional features and still think it was a total waste of development time integrating Brackets, stuck with it now so moving forward have to either get used to it or ditch Dreamweaver completely.
3. Just bring back an updated version of Server Behaviours and ADDT (or something similar) please. I mean Adobe, you bought Interakt, you could have developed the PHAKT extension that made use of the PHP ADODB class, it could have been updated and it would really help speed up workflow.
4. I think people need to concentrate on tweaks, whats broken, buggy or incomplete, complaining about features you won't use  is counter-productive. I like the GIT integration, if you don't need it, keep the panel closed. There are a few features in Dreamweaver I never or hardly ever use but I'm sure other people will use them, I don't see any point in continually ripping out
5. Any idea about splitting Dreamweaver into multiple programs is ludicrous and would destroy the essence of Dreamweaver, its an all-round tool. If you need a code editing environment primarily then brackets, sublime, atom etc might be better for you.