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by doliveira 2183 days ago
As a follow-up question, I vaguely remember that Dreamweaver was pretty popular to design websites once. What happened that caused its decline?
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As I recall (using it as a hobbyist and student, not a professional) it was primarily geared towards static sites. As people moved more towards dynamic sites (or automated upload of new content via things like content management systems) it fell out of vogue.

People who still wanted static sites often kept them simpler and made them by hand, or used some scripts to tack on the complex parts (consistent nav bars, headers, footers, etc.) in a "compilation" step.

I feel like once Adobe bought it it started to just not be worth caring about anymore. But... that was a long time ago.