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Is Adobe replacing Dreamweaver?

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August 24, 2022
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Is Adobe replacing Dreamweaver?

If so what is the name of that program?

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larry45

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rayek.elfin

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Aug 13, 2022

In addition to Nancy's writings, please realize that Dreamweaver is no longer actively developed and only minimally maintained.

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No replacement has been announced or talked about.

Why do you ask? Last time you posted here you said you didn't use Dreamweaver.

Adobe is laser focussed on 1D, 2D & 3D design tools that work on various devices; not coding tools for amateurs.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

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They tried competing with it (GoLive), complimenting it (Contribute) and replacing it (Muse) and none of those worked so I think they are out of ideas at this point. Selling it is pretty much out of the question since the name Dreamweaver is worth more than the actual program. There are a bunch of replacements, but it really depends on your coding ability and/or desire to code vs. managing just the front end of a site.

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The other product was Business Catalyst in terms of CMS as well and while they bought Magento I can not see them doing anything with that. Plus they had the Brackets app which actually set a lot of precidents for modern IDE's like visual studio code but never pushed that enough either.

The core issue is Adobe currently do not understand the "Web" or modern web and lost Paul Gubbay as well to Sqaurespace. They need someone who has a big understanding of the web and the gap. Media and graphics is a big market for them but so is the web and web application and I do not think they will until they have some hires who have a bigger understanding of the market who can then drive teams to make products that can complement the others Adobe has and help drive their web divison forward.

Brainiac

No, it's not replacing DW with any similar program for web/app development. There is something called Adobe 'experience', but that as far as l can tell is really aimed at high end applications and teams of developers and analysts.

Adobe have seemingly conceded defeat in terms of web editors, there's too much competition which can blow whatever they produce out of the water. Adobe was never good at competition, rather they had a history of just buying companies out to fulfill a gap. That's a lot more difficult to do these days as there is an endless choice of software for developing websites and apps and theres not enough financial return if you get it wrong.

I guess Pinegrow editor would be closest to what DW has become today. DW lost its way and edge when Adobe were convinced by a lot of nut cases that things like fluid grids were a good, future proof, investment instead of investing in what it was known for, easy entry level software for dynamic website production. Not upgrading the server behaviours killed it stone dead.

You can still use DW, it will be good for a few more years yet if you don't want to take advantage of newer workflows which will occur over time and probably won't make it into DW according to the signals coming out of Adobe.

davidhelpAuthor

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Thanks for replying all.
I guess webhosts with their website builders are the future for "amateurs" like me : )

Brainiac

I don't know what was meant by that comment from Nancy. Adobe is a leader in making software available for the professional market as such it has no credible web/app development product in my opinion that you could put into that category.

It has nothing which competes with the likes of:

VS Code,

Sublime Text,

Codelobster,

Pinegrow,

Web Storm and php Storm,

BbEdit

Nova

Atom (until recently)

Wappler, not my cup of tea but it's miles ahead of anything Adobe has produced, past, present and possibly future.

All of which are used by professional developers

To me Adobe have rolled over in this sector and admitted they are just not competitive or willing to be. As lve said before web development its a hugely fractured market and Adobe are looking for the biggest piece of the pie which they would find difficult given the numerous products available which can create a website or app. It's not the year 2000 any longer, there are some very innovative and forward thinking companies who have grabbed more pie than Adobe would like.