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by snowwrestler 1867 days ago
Dreamweaver templates were the original static site generator. I used them to build a bunch of small sites in the early 2000’s. They worked so well that the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum used them to run its site until 2018:

https://mw19.mwconf.org/glami/smithsonian-national-museum-of...

As recently as a couple years ago I had colleagues still using Dreamweaver to code up email templates (email is the Land Before Time of HTML rendering where tables still rule for layout).

Dreamweaver started at Macromedia too, as did Flash and Cold Fusion. It’s amazing the impact Macromedia had. The founders later went on to start Brightcove, one of the first big white label cloud video providers.