When is Dreamweaver coming?

[vanguard]

Has Macromedia announced when Dreamweaver will ship?

[wdw_]

They've already previewed it. It was a long time ago.

http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0008/30/dreamweaver.jpg

[rinse]

with the MAJOR financial probs MACR is having, who knows?

i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't update their remaining apps till summer.

[Jadey]

If they brought out their software for OS X, they'd get WAY more revenue coming in. I'd be buying 2 titles myself.

[serpicolugnut]

In last weeks earnings report from Macromedia, they stated that "Macromedia expects revisions to some of its core products, including Flash and Dreamweaver, will allow the company to return to profitability within two quarters". So, at the very latest, we should have both Flash and Dreamweaver within two quarters. But really, if they expect the sales of both those products to impact revenues within two quarters, then the products would have to be out for awhile, right?

So, I'm guestimating that within 2 - 2.5 months we'll see these apps released. If not, some Macromedia shareholders are going to have CEO Rob Burgess' head on a paltter for making flase statements in earnings reports.

Plus, Macromedia has some fierce competition coming with GoLive6 and LiveMotion2 in the next month. I doubt they can afford to wait any longer to release these apps. Shoot - they first showed Dreamweaver and Fireworks running under OS X at MWNY 2000 - when Apple debuted the Cube!

Talk about vaporware!

[serpicolugnut]

Urgh. I've just given GoLive 6 a try. While I'm sure it's a good program for those who use it, after an hour with it, I realized why I switched to Dreamweaver almost 3 years ago.

Setting up a site in GoLive is so much more involved than in Dreamweaver, and GoLive creates these extra folders for data it needs, whereas Dreamweaver creates no files (other than your sites .html and images).

Also, I couldn't figure out how to create or edit a table. The interface for this is not nearly as intuitive as Dreamweaver either.

I'm gonna read up on these and see if I can't figure them out, but I'm really disappointed. After the 1st hour of using GoLive6 under OS X, I started up Classic and reverted to Dreamweaver, and actually liked using it in Classic more than GoLive under OS X.

Here's hoping Macromedia get's Dreamweaver 5 out SOON!

[ulrik]

Originally posted by serpicolugnut
[b]Urgh. I've just given GoLive 6 a try. While I'm sure it's a good program for those who use it, after an hour with it, I realized why I switched to Dreamweaver almost 3 years ago.

Setting up a site in GoLive is so much more involved than in Dreamweaver, and GoLive creates these extra folders for data it needs, whereas Dreamweaver creates no files (other than your sites .html and images).

Also, I couldn't figure out how to create or edit a table. The interface for this is not nearly as intuitive as Dreamweaver either.

That is your personal opinion of course. WHen I switched from Dreamweaver to GoLive, table editing was one of the things I loved in GoLive. You just haven't figured out how to use it, but one look into the tutorial and you would have found the magic window which gives you a great access (and a great layout view) to tables. It is floating there, you just have to use it.

I think it comes down to personal taste. I wouldn't say one is better than the other. Then again, the WYSIWYG-editor-war is nearly as hot as the browser-war used to be

[serpicolugnut]

It is my personal opinion about ease of use, but it's a fact that GoLive drops all these extra folders of data it uses in your site, while Dreamweaver doesn't...

Also, another oddity...

I have a online photo album I created. It's an index page that points to several folders, each with a Web Gallery created in Photoshop. The folder is called "Pictures"

Upon importing my site in to GoLive 6, it changed the .html pages in the Pictures folder to a text listing of them - without even asking first!

I'm gonna run through a tutorial and see how it stacks up, but my initial impressions are still not very good.