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by elmarschraml 3635 days ago
Dreamweaver is (or was, back in the day) a good implementation of a category of software that does not really exist any more.

Back when the web stated, creating a web page meant mostly writing html, with a bit of graphics and scripting thrown in. The idea was that by using Dreamweaver, regular people (i.e. not expensive software developers) could do the layout and formatting of web pages. And it worked pretty well for that.

But it turned out that "creating html from text and image content" is not a job any more that needs specialized software.

On one side of the spectrum, web developers do not create static html any more, but full-blown web applications where html is just the output. If you are using e.g. a js templating framework, a visual tool like Dreamweaver wont help you very much.

On the other side, if you're a business user putting text on web pages, you are probably not creating html pages, but entering the text in the web interface of e.g. a CMS system.