In this post at PingVision Laura questions the continuing relevance of Dreamweaver for web design professionals
Adobe’s Creative Suite for Web 1.0 | pingVision
I don’t know that I’m quite ready to totally give up Dreamweaver, or even Web 1.0, but I do think she has a good point. I teach a couple of classes on web technologies, and I hold any discussion of Dreamweaver until the end, if we get to it at all. Instead we look at web standards, CSS, and CMS/blog engines. Through this work, using text editors and web browsers, we explore the underlying technologies and how simple – yet powerful – they are. We talk about visual design for the computer monitor, accessibility, usability, graceful degradability and other important web design topics. If there’s time we look at Dreamweaver, but it isn’t the core of my teaching.
All too often I see people equate Dreamweaver knowledge with an understanding of the web — big mistake. It is a useful tool when you know what you’re doing, but for my money a designer needs a lot more on their resume than Dreamweaver chops.
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