I need a free alternative program to Adobe Dreamweaver that does the same thing that Dreamweaver does. Do you know of free Alternative programs that is similar to Adobe Dreamweaver?? that I can download free of charge to my computer and start working in. Or, could you help me in installing the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium program that I already own at home but, is just sitting around collecting dust. I tried to install it onto my new MacBook Pro Apple computer but, there was a problem and it wouldn't install. My operating system I have on my computer is Snow Leopard 10.7.5
no! they are for a DVD-ROM Drive. and they are for windows version maybe that might be the problem??? maybe??
Given that Dreamweaver is a fat bloated steaming pile of crap that results in even WORSE "websites" (I hesitate to use the word website in the same sentence with what DW makes) I'm stuck wondering where your problem is... Get a flat text editor (lord knows there's dozens of them) and work with the HTML/CSS directly instead of crapping all over your work with any sort of fat bloated 'tool'... because as I've said a million times the only thing about Dreamweaver that can be considered professional grade tools are the people promoting it's use. Most good text editors are free... most browsers are free... and there are free FTP clients... you need more than that, you should probably go back and learn HTML+CSS.
hey! here are two of my websites I recently did!! One is my personal website EnglandFierce and the other was a class assignment where we had to create either a 4 or 5 page website on a clothing company. I chose the Timberland shoe company. The password to see my resume on my Englandfierce site is Work22
You can try: http://net2.com/nvu/ But I suggest you to try coding yourself in Notepad++, or better yet you will have more luck just installing wordpress on a domain name and choosing a free theme instead of dealing with DreamWeaver and other programs alike.
Hi skinnypen25 - yes, it's because you cannot install the PC version on a Mac. However, you should be able to install it on Windows emulatino - eg Google parallels. It's all very well saying DW is bloatware and, yes, it is: but coding from hand is an even steeper learning curve. There used to be NVU open source html editor as an alternative but that went awol. Now, there's little alternative to DW to help you code. Yes, I prefer to look at the raw code and if you have Ultraedit that colours the tag pairs for you which helps a lot. But when it comes to coding CSS by hand that is a nightmare at anything beyond simple, for most people DW has a steep learning curve too, but it is a useful tool if you absolutely cannot make use of WordPress - the simple solution. Personally, I rare dig into code these days because WP handles most of what I want. Good luck! Malc
1) Deathshadow is just wrong to make any kind of assumption that DW cannot create astounding websites. Almost all professionals use DW for their web creation work so this is just a terrible comment that cannot be backed up by any kind of proof. 2) Obviously the Windows version won't work on a Mac. When you buy a Mac you have MacOS which will not run any Windows software. If you want to run your windows software on your mac you will need to do 1 of 3 things, run some type of VM software to run an instance of Windows within MacOS (VMWare or VMPlayer etc), run an emulator that is hopefully compatible with the software you want to run (Wine, Parrallels etc) or simply use Bootcamp to run Windows and use it directly that way. The bootcamp drivers are notoriously bad so it wont be quite as fast as running windows on a standard windows machine but at least you wont have as much of a slowdown as if you were using a VM software or emulator. Any time you emulate or virtualise an OS within another OS there will always be a large performance deficit associated. I suppose another option may be to sell your Windows copy of Adobe and then buy an Apple version but I don't know how costly that choice would be tbh.
The ONLY way to not have rubbish code is to ignore the 'preview pane', not use any of the wizards, templates, what-have-you, avoid like the plague any of the javascripts it comes with -- and ONLY use the code editor... and even then it can mangle perfectly good code simply by loading it in and hitting save. Even it's 'templating' system is broken garbage since it relies on a commenting style that's proven to cause rendering bugs in IE and even some versions of FF. (and with FF's tendency towards code regressions...) At which point it is nothing more than a overglorified version of your typical notepad replacement... that isn't worth ANY price. Though I've never seen an 'astounding' site built with it -- unless you mean astoundingly bad and reeking of "But I can do it in Photoshop" and "WCAG, what's that?" idiocy. He mentioned owning a quack, and they don't have notepad, nor will notepad++ run on it (well, unless you install windows on it or run windows in a VM)... Text wrangler isn't bad though if you end up stuck on the overpriced crippleware known as OSX.
Well said. I own a copy of Dreamweaver, and nowadays I just use it as a quicker way to view the page I'm typing in on code view. Dreamweaver is meant to be easy to use - Even above producing valid code. If you really need a free WYSIWYG editor, get something like Komposer, but it's not necessary to need one in the first place.
Notepad, Notepad++ are free alternatives, if you're a student you should be qualified to purchase Dreamweaver at student rate instead of paying the full price. Try to find another student in your school who already has Dreamweaver installation CD and ask them to install it on your computer. You can also pay a monthly subscription at student rate to access Dreamweaver CS6 via Adobe Creative Cloud.
I found out what the problem really is?? I went online to Apple's online help support forum and one of the apple expert's told me that the problem was that I got the 13 inch MacBook pro computer instead of the 15 inch one. She told me that the 13 inch one doesn't have a graphic card that is powerful enough to run the program that I want and that the 15 inch one is the one I should have gotten because, it has a stronger and powerful enough graphic card to handle the program I am trying to put onto my computer. However, she also informed me that I would need to buy a retail verison of the windows operating system and then install that on my computer using Bootcamp in order to use my CS5 program. She also said I could use the CS5 program I got on my 13 inch MacBook Pro computer but, the fact that I have an integrated HD Graphics 4000 graphic card on it would make the program run slower. If, I needed that kind of program on my computer I should have purchased the 15 inch MacBook Pro computer instead. Thanks for all your help guys!!!
Plus! I also need more memory!! my 13 inch MacBook pro computer when it first came to me new in the white box came with only 4GB of memory!!
Wow, and there's why Apple's online help are a bunch of drooling morons (though Apple... big shock there).. because of course you need something more complex than a flat SVGA card from twenty-plus years ago to run software like Photoshop or Dreamweaver. Intel HD should be overkill even in OSX. .. and 4 gigs not enough? BULLCOOKIES. Even with the fat bloated steaming pile known as OSX Lion... No... My Atom powered hackintosh has HALF that and only an old Intel GMA 950, and it is overkill for something like Dreamweaver. They're just trying to bleed you for more money -- a laugh since they did that the moment you decided to buy their overpriced poorly made flimsy little low quality garbage with all the style of a recently sanitized hospital ward... With Apple products you've already been bled dry -- without the common courtesy the Red Cross has of at least giving you a cup of OJ. Which is akin to Private Texas not even having the common courtesy of giving someone a... ... and if you want to run the Windows version I would probably use something like Parallels (pay) or VirtualBox (free) to run Windows in a VM, that way you can stay in OSX if desired. Both offer a seamless mode, so the Windows programs running in a VM will appear "on" and be controllable from the OSX desktop. (I'd avoid VMWare, I hate how it hijacks the entire system it's running on -- but then I say the same thing about Adobe software since the 'CS' versions came along) Honestly if you're going to do web development you should probably be running both OS anyways, so you can test in as many browsers as possible -- this of course is also why DW's 'preview pane' that behaves like no other browsers (not even the ones it's based on -- old versions were allegedly Opera, new ones are allegedly webkit) is also a massive waste of time, effort and most importantly, money. These days when I want to do that (I even do it on Win7 so I can test older versions of IE) I just track down an old XP CD and pull the validation sticker off some dead system. (which are a dime a dozen... but then I recycle battery packs off laptops for use driving bicycle headlamps for the po-po so dead laptops are always coming my way). I'm even running OSX Lion Server under VirtualBox in Win7, which lets me test Firefox and Safari in their native environment -- important since the Mac versions of both of those do NOT behave exactly like their Windows counterparts... Also have a Debian install too given the different fonts and steaming pile of rendering known as freetype can introduce unwanted behaviors as well. Good development is about testing -- test here, test there, test everywhere... and when you think you've tested enough, you're halfway there.