Cheapest Way To Get Dreamweaver

[kiddlattimer]

Anyone know a good way to get dreamweaver cheap? I dont mind paying for it but the $400+ on their site is just way over any budget I have for it.

I know I can use an educational discount but I'm not in school and dont have any kids/relatives that are.

[Tel]

You can get a cracked version of the whole Macromedia suite (fireworks, flash, dreamweaver) if you look around. BHW will probably have it. I have MM8 and the only program I use in there is fireworks cause I like it better than photoshop.

But to be honest, I tried using DW a few years ago and it was a pile of crap. It often did not end up looking teh way you wanted it to on different browsers and you have limited control over CSS as (in my opinion) it puts a ton of unnecessary code in there.

If you want to go faster, learn to use CSS and then you only need to know simple html - no need to use crappy tables or endless font tags throughout your text. And you can create navbar, header and footer files that you pull in to each page using the <?php include > tag so you only have a single file to change, especially the nav file, every time you create a new page.

I build all my static sites that way and can do it pretty fast now. I use PSPAD to edit (its a free download from pspad.com) its powerful and has a lot of cool features. You can keep an ftp client running (like filezilla) and just keep uploading each change you make to see what it looks like live in your browser.

Who needs expensive and cumbersome software to do it badly for you?

[paidinpassive]

If you are a college student, or know any, you can get a copy of Dreamweaver for around $179 at a local college bookstore. Most likely it will be an outdated version like CS3 (which is what I use), but it still works nonetheless.

Also, if you don't have knowledge of CSS, then I can kind of agree with the post above me regarding how messy the code can be. For example, adding margins in Dreamweaver would produce around 4 lines of code for margin left, right, top, and bottom. However, if you understand CSS, then you can simply write one line of code for a margin and insert the pixels for each width/height.

(...I hope that didn't sound too confusing...)

In the end, Dreamweaver is by far one of the best pieces of software I own given that you can create templates with editable regions which means you can skip the php includes and just apply changes to your entire website without having to edit *every* php include on your want to pull.