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I apologize for the rant. I'm getting really deep into web design again with a personal project and I have run into some speedbumps. Translating that really nice layout to HMTL isn't the end of the world in regards to difficulty. It will just take time. Frustrated doing it the "hard way" when there should be an easier way. It just seems like Adobe is missing out on a market they should already have locked-in.
By @JoshuaLeeClark
The party is unfortunately over for Dreamweaver. For your information, if you don't already know, its now only minimally maintained so don't expect any new features or major updates anytime soon. DW was never really a WYSIWYG editor - it attempted to show your page how it was meant to look but the more complex your code became the more it failed. I dont think its improved much over time, a lot has been left to rot down over the years. Adobe, although its not official stopped competing in the web-editor arena as more and more players, both stand-alone and online editors appeared, which diluted their slice of the cake and revenue. To them its probably no longer financially viable to maintain and progress beyond a few minor updates when and if they feel like it. Take the example of Bootstrap 5 (responsive toolkit), now nearly a year old and no support for it beyond manually coding in DW, whilst other editors were ready to implement support shortly after its official release.
The editor is WAPPLER not W'R'APPLER. That is more suited to probably the likes of yourself having a more visual, designer orientated background or those that have passed their 'sell by date' in web development but professional coders most likely would avoid it as it uses some niche workflows, which most likely wouldnt sit well with them or their ethos. In my opinion its target market is those that have a limited requirement to delve into the web/app development at times. If anyone buys into it thinking they can get a development job or career, beyond what they can source themselves, they are sadly mistaken. It serves a purpose. Yes its subscription based, but so is Dreamweaver now, Wappler to its credit if you buy into the pro version does provide 'bang for buck' if you intend to use it frequently and of course you can subscribe for a few months and then cancel once your project is finished. I think you would be well advised to investigate it, although it pains me to say so (as a pure coder) because of your background. I would not be advising anyone who is thinking about a long-term serious career in web-devlopment though, its a dead end street, in my opinion.
There's plenty of freely available editors out there such a VS Code, Sublime Text, Codelobster, Atom etc but they dont have a WYSIWYG enviroment, you need to be adapt at coding. Other possiblilities are Wordpress, still going from strength to strengh. I avoided it like the plague throughout my career but in hindsight I wished now I had given it more time as we are in an era where skill and knowledge count for very little and you need very little skill and knowledge to use Wordpress. It was the forerunner to the batch of point, shoot and forget low-code, no-code tools which are now available and are infused into the arena of low budget clients.
Whatever, you can either stick with DW and run with it. Its still a good basic editor, but mostly these days for coders, just dont expect any future progression or you can investigate solutions which are still actively being developed and have a future.
Adobe puts their main resources into design apps, not stand alone web authoring tools. Look at how many people work on PS, AI, Substance 3D compared to DW. Adobe lost interest in web authoring as evidenced by the EOL of GoLive, Muse, Flash/Shockwave, and countless others.\
By @Nancy OShea
Fireworks being another high profile victim of Adobe which was EOLed before it should have been, in my opinion. Adobe seem to eventually generally trash a lot of what they buy into. They have a very poor track record when it comes to competing with smaller innovative teams but have a very good track record of offering financial temptations that cant be refused, showing themselves to be a very 'ugly' company, who take no interest in their users, like most monoliths in my opinion.
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