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Substitute for Dreamweaver

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September 7, 2017
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Hi,

This may seem like a strange question, but I'd like to know if there is a reasonable substitute for Dreamweaver out there.

I started my site around 2005 on Microsoft Frontpage, and to be honest for my modest needs, FrontPage was a really good fit. But, then it was phased out for what ever they called the follow on version of Frontpage, and I converted over to that. Then it was dropped.

At that point I'd had about enough converting the whole website over to something to new, so I bought a copy of DreamWeaver, which seemed to be the most stable product going. Took a while to do the conversion, but got through it. Meanwhile the site kept growing -- now over 1000 html pages (www.builditsolar.com).

Then Adobe switched over to the subscription model.

In the meantime my site is less active, and the only use I am really getting out of DreamWeaver now is some occasional updates and a new page once in a while. The $240 a year seems excessive for my current usage and I'd like to find something that I cold maintain the DreamWeaver created site with that would not have a steep learning curve. But, It feels like I'm pretty embedded in DreamWeaver with the templates etc. -- I can't do individual conversions to over a thousand pages.

I'm an engineer who would just like an easy to use tool to get some ideas out there for people who want to build solar projects -- have less than zero interest in writing html or other code. The more it looks like a wordprocessor the happier I am. But, it needs to be something that will accept the current DreamWeaver created site without tons of conversion work.

Any ideas on software I might try?

I understand DreamWeaver is a terrific product for those who need and use its many features.

Thanks -- Gary

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Correct answer rayek.elfin

I'd say the only valid option would be Pinegrow. I tested it, and it loads your pages without any issues, and you will be able to quickly edit visually, as well as edit the underlying code. It's sort-of how I envisioned what Dreamweaver might have become in a different universe. It's inexpensive, and you get a full license (no subscription!).

And it has a live connection with Atom, a very nice free code editor.

williamj312762442949201

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Wappler guys released some video about creating sites and binding dynamic data: http://wappler.io/Wappler_intro.mp4 looks nice so far.

BenPleysier

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This is a teaser and I was told that it should not be published as yet.

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

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W_J_T

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BenPleysier wrote
http://wappler.io/Wappler_intro.mp4 <--- This is a teaser and I was told that it should not be published as yet.

Given that the video was shared above and you previously mentioned the article about Wappler pricing - and are a beta user.

Subscription Costs

BenPleysier

[Question:] Does the video presented demonstrate the Free (base version) or the paid for Subscription version ?

B i r n o u

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so does wappler is an alternative which can eventually replace Dreamweaver and not complete it ?

Teodor K

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Yes, that is right.

We continue to support Dreamweaver with our extensions as well

---DMXzone | Wappler

B i r n o u

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thanks for clarification...

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EbaySeller

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It should be converted to a dynamically driven site (PHP/MySQL)

Keep in mind that converting your static Dreamweaver website to a Wordpress website will require exactly what you did not want, which is "tons of conversion work". Although you can install wordpress on a server with little ease; it will take a painful amount of time to convert your static pages to dynamic content in Wordpress. There is a lot of copy/paste required to move all your 1000 static pages to 1000 wordpress pages - or any other dynamically driven site for that matter.

Nancy OShea

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For starters, a 1000 page static site is a 10,000 lb. gorilla. It should be converted to a dynamically driven site (PHP/MySQL) with a few pages and content pulled in from the server-side database. That pretty much goes for any website that contains more than 50 or so pages.

Dreamweaver is aimed at designers/developers who WANT to work with code. And since you don't, it's probably not a good fit for you. There's nothing wrong with that. It just comes down to different tools for different users.

If you can't work with code, I don't know of any software that will entirely fit your needs except WordPress.org. WP is server software with a built in Content Management System (CMS) that's used by millions of people to maintain their websites through an online interface or dashboard. It's not a word processor but it comes about as close as you're going to find. Most hosting providers support WordPress. Some actually provide one-click installation through the server's C-Panel. Ask your hosting provider if you can use WordPress.

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Solar_GaryAuthor

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Thanks Nancy,

I am familiar with Wordpress -- I have a 2nd site that uses it, and its a pretty good match for me. But I can't even imagine the work involved in converting my solar site to Wordpress. Or, maybe there are some tools to automate this?

Its not that I can't write code. I wrote many many thousands of lines of Pascal and C analysis code at Boeing. But it just does not seem like when all I want to do is put out descriptive text, sketches, graphs, and pictures for solar projects that I should need to write code to do that? I've often wondered why there is not a Word for the web? Maybe there is something like that out there and I've not found it?

Maybe it would be a good thing to convert the site to a data base based approach, but the sheer size of the project is just a lot more than I want to tackle. To be honest, I don't really see much advantage either -- the site is mostly descriptions of solar projects that normally don't change with time and I use the Disqus comment system that pretty well covers changes.

Appreciate the thoughts, but wondering if there is not something better for my situation?

Thanks -- Gary

rayek.elfinCorrect answer

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I'd say the only valid option would be Pinegrow. I tested it, and it loads your pages without any issues, and you will be able to quickly edit visually, as well as edit the underlying code. It's sort-of how I envisioned what Dreamweaver might have become in a different universe. It's inexpensive, and you get a full license (no subscription!).

And it has a live connection with Atom, a very nice free code editor.

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