Customer Reviews

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

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After doing hours of research about which program I should use to create a website, I learned that DREAMWEAVER CS3 is the gold standard of professional web designers. Skeptical that someone like me -- with zero experience and little time -- could make it work, I downloaded a free 30-day trial version of the program from the Adobe website. [...].

Guess what? It worked! And in less than 15 minutes I had a website, albeit a very boring one. Still it was up and with the site wizard's instructions I was able to easily spiff it up in an hour and felt confident enough and excited enough about working with the program that I bought it from amazon (cheaper than the Adobe site!) and asked for over night delivery.

I am thrilled that I did. The program is incredibly easy to use. My site is now far from boring. Search engine optimized, neatly organized and professional in appearance, my site is exactly what I always wanted. I cannot believe I made it in only a few hours.

I recommend that those interested in this program start with the free trial version and the site wizard's easy instructions. If you like the results, buy the full version and the book "Dreamweaver CS3 The Missing Manual," also available on amazon. Though not necessary for seasoned professions and as thick as a phone book, the Missing Manual is a spectacular resource for a non-nerd like me who has BIG website dreams.

-- Regina McMenamin

very easy to use . no problems / no crashes / needed help setting up FTP - otherwise i barely needed any help. there's a lot of free help on the web because its such a popular program. yes its expensive (how much is the whole CS3 suite? are you a student? check out discount.

This is an excellent program, but don't be fooled, it's not for beginners. I have been using computers and design programs like Photoshop for over 20 years but this program has beat me. Despite what they would like you to think this program is in no way easy. I watched online tutorials for days, weeks even, and tried to work through setting up a site and in the end I had to give up. Unfortunately there are no experts on this program near where I live or that would have helped enormously. If you are thinking you'll work through this yourself, and have little or no experience in web design, be warned... line up a 'plan B'.

I bought this as a business expense to keep all my web page work in one place. I have to say, this product does all I want and more. The only reason why I gave it 4 stars is because it fires up an updater that can't update anything.

Other than that, for the casual web designer, it is the perfect tool.

I've used many different web publishing programs and Dreamweaver is my favorite. It's no wonder that many professionals use it. CS3 includes easy-to-embed dynamic objects, form tools, CSS help, and other great features. I hear that CS4 has even more new tools, but for now this is far better than anything I have ever used, including MS Expression Web.

I would NOT recommend this product. Adobe products always seem slow to me for one thing. Besides, having registered it three or more times, It caused my IMAC to crash two times in less than a week! I could not update the so called Hackers Security Issued on FLV videos on their site, so I let it alone. I noticed at the second crash (I could not catch Adobe file 'MM XMLXSL' from the first dying), checked all the LOG files and they all pointed to this 'MM XMLXSL' pathfile in Adobe Dreamweaver around the very hour of the same LOG time, presumably hackers or of some sort (I'm new to Apple), not giving me full access to the Leopard OS to start up 'Windows' like I know I'm supposed to, so I had to press the Eject button in order to get out of that loop, and then poof! Wouldn't you know it? My newly installed dual startup disk of windows is gone! (But the MAC OS was spared.) And I bet the hacker would like me to think I accidently crashed it Myself! (If that what hackers do???) I also noticed I had similar access problems at the first crash in less than two days of installing Adobe DreamWeaver CSS, It would not let me drag desktop items to the Applications Folder and it all ended up gone emptied in the Trash when I deleted it. However, I just got a new Update from Adobe, and probably not too long from now, this buggy Issue will be resolved in no time with their continuous loyal support, which I'm greatfull.