Customer Reviews

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 [Mac][OLD VERSION]

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Working in PageMill 3.0 for the last 11 years, I figured it was time to upgrade. I had to work in Mac OS 9.2.2, Classic, on my old eMac to be able to maintain my website. I wished to get all on my latest Mac, so I had to find out if I could use Dreamweaver CS5 to read and edit my PageMill files. Good for me, Adobe offered a free demo, which I finally downloaded. Hurray, it read my pages, and then I could edit them and create new pages to be inserted into my website folder. Beautifully, I can run my website just as I did in PageMill, all on my Intel Mac.

Dreamweaver is a excellent WYSIWYG program, fine for me. I looked at BBEdit and that didn't work for me, also a demo. It is a huge investment for me, as PageMill came free with my iMac, back in 1999, and provided a good start to my webmastering. It served me well for all that time, but now I am updated with CS5, and while I can still run my website from my old computer using PageMill, that serves as a back-up if somehow my main Mac gets disabled somehow.

I had to get a manual, so easily and fast, thanks to Amazon, to learn how to use Dreamweaver, as I could not do some simple things as is obvious with my old software. The scrolling is a bit jerky, and it seems even a bit slow doing routine things. However now, I can make changes to a page and upload hardly with one click. The time saved will justify the high purchase price, and I am really now into .html. I can do movies, animation graphics, and other cool things to do, it looks like great fun for the next several years as I play with my website, and by what is the potential for this software. You can also tweak a photo and upload it immediately, instead of what I had to do in the past. From minutes to seconds! No expensive photo editing software required for simple stuff.

I highly recommend getting this if you have a huge website like me. Although upgrades are also expensive, I may be doing that when the Mac OS gets revised, and it is a welcome change from the tedious times when I had to use my older computer. Pagemill is not compatible with bundled Mac software, as iWeb. They told me that it won't work for as complex a website as I have. Dreamweaver, though, does the job!

I inherited an existing website and had to learn from scratch and this program let me edit, upload and update the site. I know nothing about website editing or creation but with this product I honestly believe if I had to I could create a site from the beginning. Adobe online videos are fantastic and easy to learn from. Are there easier products, most likely yes but this one will blow them away. I would highly recommend Dreamweaver to anyone.

After realizing that the (up-sell for $199) upgrade from Go-live to Dreaweaver CS5 wouldn't work for my version of CS2, I returned it and splurged on the stand alone Dreamweaver CS5. Make sure you check with the Abobe website before wasting your time.

For over ten years I have used Golive to create and manage my website and I have to say that the transition has been pretty smooth. Adobe offers a month of free tutorials on lynda.com which covers most of the software from beginner to more advanced techniques. Not having used Dreamweaver before I found it a much better software than golive, setting up of pages and pictures is simplified. One just needs to get used to it. You might try a free month trial to get a head start and see if it works for you. I am revamping my whole site which has over 80 pages. Since I was changing the names of the pages and pictures I didn't opt to import the complete site, however that is one of the options and Dreamweaver recognizes all the Golive pages.

All in all the software is easy to use.. CSS may take some effort and time to understand but it isn't necessary to know it and the video tutorials walk you through it.

Adobe CS5 Dreamweaver on Mac gave us trouble on Macos 10.6.x Snow Leopard. All the other CS5 suite applications like Photoshop etc installed fine and could be started via normal app icon click, however DW CS5 would not launch. We created plug-in panels for DW CS5 at our company, Evolphin [...] and it became a major nightmare to not be able to startup and test our panels from within DW CS5. After a lot of digging around we came across [...]. Seemed like in October of last year Adobe finally released a patch to fix the DW CS5 startup issue on Mac. Given Mac is a major platform for Adobe, it was a bit odd that Dreamweaver CS5 had such a fundamental issue. Other than that CS5 DW does a fine job. Even amateur webmaster will find it intuitive enough. Templating features are very nice.