Dreamweaver
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.”
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Caveats and dissent
“think of (X)HTML generated by Dreamweaver or FrontPage”
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Data: dreamweaver.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“Marvel at the Dreamweaver-enabled design”
“You can still get Dreamweaver today.”
“It was utterly brilliant and saved me hours each week.”
“think of (X)HTML generated by Dreamweaver or FrontPage”
“never thought that Dreamweaver would still be around, I used that somewhere around 2003”
“I need everyone to know I use Dreamweaver.”
“Wasn't that Dreamweaver?”
“many aren't aware it is still around”
Nope, it was solved with Visual Basic in 1991. And with Nextstep in 1989. And with... I really dislike people comparing GenAI with compilers. Compilers largely do mechanic transformations, they do almost 0 logic changes (and if they do, they're bugs). We are in an industry that's great at throwing (developing) and really bad at catching (QA) and we've just invented the machine gun. For some reason people expect the m
“oh wow dreamweaver still exists. Any of you have experience? Still good?”
“Judicious and careful use of Dreamweaver”
“I was a big Dreamwever fan back in the 2000's.”
You can though with some creativity. There are lots of tools that give a wrong solution that appears correct, and easier ones tend to do that the most. Plenty of people who needed a real dev team to design an application probably hoped on Dreamweaver, were suddenly able to bumble their way some interface that looked impressive but would never scale (even to the original goal level of scale mind you). - Any time you h