The previous poster said "code view" is helpful - as in, where you write your own code, not Dreamweaver creating it from your manipulation of the design view section. Dreamweaver's code view tab IS helpful - it color codes your code for you, making it easier to spot mistakes, it gives you line counts, lets you hide blocks of code from view while working, allows you to alter the indentation of blocks of code easily, and also provides validation tools (w3c compliance, etc). Whenever this issue arises, it seems like the Dreamweaver haters get so excited about bashing the program that they don't even pay attention to what anyone who uses Dreamweaver is saying. I seriously doubt any professional developer would advocate using design view and having Dreamweaver author your code. Just pay attention to what people ACTUALLY type, and not what you want to read.
I used split view and edit with code that way i can see how my code work out come on professional webdesigners also use dreamweaver but they do much more coding I rather to see the code and my design spontaneously than have to launch explore to see how my code works but You must understand the code before you going for DreamWeaver that is for sure
Any text editor with a syntax highlighter will do the same job using 800K on your drive instead of 250M. Used with the Html validator and the webdeveloper toolbar plugin for firefox, you have all you need without loading an extremely heavy program. Moreover, if you are not coding in plain html, but using php asp etc. wysiwyg editors are useless.
That describes Notepad++, and about a hundred other free editors.... No, "technical pros" use it. People who graduated from a university who learned Dreamweacver from a Professor who couldn't make it in the web design view. No you can't. That code is displayed using Opera's rendering engine, so only shows you one browsers view in it - though most of the code shall also work in IE as well. Well too bad. Launching Internet explorer everytime is not necessary. Open the page in: Opera Safari Firefox Internet Explorer Change you code, then refresh each browser. Using just internet explorer is /FAIL/ - as deathshadow says. Aye, it happens. But keep in mind the majority of us started out with Dreamweaver. I personally did, and am now terrified of using it again. However, to back up any arguments I have, I have Dreamweaver MX through to CS4 installed on my system
There's always accusations against Dreamweaver of producing bloated code, and there's a lot of truth in these accusations, although it has got better in this regards. I use both Notepad++ and Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver has some functions that I like - mainly because I originally started using years ago so I'm familiar with the software. I would imagine that Notepad++ as similar functions but I haven't really looked into it that much.