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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

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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.

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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.

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

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So you think that if Wappler goes belly up today, that all if my Wappler sites are doomed? And you call yourself a professional, giving advice to people in a less fortunate situation?

By @BenPleysier

I never said anything about your website being doomed. More will you be doomed is the point or will your client be doomed.

If you can only create websites or apps using one specific editor then, yes, l would say you're doomed and probably have limited abilities which would impact on you significantly should even Wappler raise their prices beyond what you want to pay or can afford to pay, which is what you referred to in terms of Bubble. Wappler recently did raise their prices for new customers l believe and justifiably so given the extensive work which has gone into producing the app. However this move still upset some of the current users as they thought it applied to them.

As for saving 75% production time yes that's good if true but l doubt it unless your coding abilities are very limited but it's also self serving. I would be more concerned that the client could easily source an alternative developer to manage their website if they so chose to do so. I'm pretty sure that would be a difficult task for them given Wappler uses its own workflow which would not be common to the majority of developers.

I guess it's easy to become blinkered and self serving once you become dependent on specific processes as it presents a level of security that you wish not to lose.

Sorry, I am not married to Wappler. I use it to make my task easier. Even more importantly so, Wappler allows me to create a website at a much faster rate than most of the Dreamweaver alternatives that you quoted above. This is particularly important for my clients because it reduces the cost of development.

I recently inherrited a site that was created in Webflow. Great program. The reason that the client came to me is because he could not find another developer who would tackle a Webflow project.

Then there is the client with a great looking website created by an old fashioned hand coder. All working well with plenty of Javascripts, Stylesheets and PHP processes. The developer decided to retire and the client had a problem finding another developer. The code was to hard to understand.

The reason that I say this is because Wappler is not unique in producing code that may be hard for non-coders to understand. I am sure that you would have no problem with the source code driving App Connect.

Just one more. This client came to me with a static website using Bootstrap for styling. Admittedly, it was an older version of Bootstrap, but I immediately felt at home.

We will for ever be arguing about workflows. Be assured, that there are many workflows out there, some of which I would never copy, others that I could live with.

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!