Trying out Adobe Dreamweaver for the First Time in 13 Years!

I used Dreamweaver quite frequently back in the early 2000's. A subscriber asked me to do a tutorial yesterday, so I thought it might be fun to let you all watch me as I used it for the very first time in well over a decade. Enjoy!
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Who is Gary Simon? Well, I'm a full stack developer with 2+ decades experience and I teach people how to design and code. I've created around 100+ courses for big brands like LinkedIn, Lynda.com, Pluralsight and Envato Network.
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[@SWGTBruno]

It is very good to see that you pay attention to the comments and take them into account for upcoming videos, thus helping people and giving excellent training! Excellent, I'll keep that in mind for the next videos lol!

[@DesignCourse]

Thanks!

[@lcarothe]

I am surprised how much Dreamweaver has changed so much. I haven't used it since 2004. I used Dreamweaver cs3 version. Thank you for showing this video.

[@shericreates]

I'm right there with you. I used to use PageMill back in the 90's, then Dreamweaver. I walked away for years. I came back to it and was totally lost! I made my site in Adobe Muse and then POW! Gone! Heading back to Dreamweaver.

[@zachhudson3137]

I was not prepared for that music to come in lol

[@jasonking1284]

That was to keep you awake....

[@hyperupcall]

Back at it again with another tutorial! Congrats on almost 200k subs!

[@BloodyClash]

Simply the fact that it opens dependancy files makes it much better than vs code also try press CTRL+E over a class or ID name. But the BIG drawback is that it's rather ressource hungry and when you work over hours with it it's getting slow (have to restart dreamweaver then)

[@gdj777]

VS Code if you are doing Node/NPM. Dreamweaver if you are doing static sites, Wordpress and heavy duty CSS styling/animations. choose the best tool for the job. Sometimes its a phillips screwdriver other times is a flahead.

[@rc-wingman5719]

You sir understand the purpose of Dreamweaver and VS-Code. It took me years to convince my full-stack work colleagues to use it for front end. VS-CODE ---> CODE DREAMWEAVER ---> Frontend-DREAMS

[@utkarshdubey8641]

Oh well was expecting some classical things from you. Can you please make some videos on 3D animations with some plugins or libraries. BTW thanks for such good content!

[@BlackHulkGaming]

In the CSS designer if you click show set so it’s not checked it shows all possible CSS properties that you can change rather than you having to add them yourself.

[@elleshar666]

Used them all. Been using dreamweaver's code editor/live preview for about 15 years now.. it was never a wysiwyg drag and drop editor.. it had options to draw absolute divs I believe it still has but, in this 15 or whatever years I don't remember a single moment I ever had to draw anything to the screen.. I used brackets and vs code. DW has them dead to rights if you know how to use it.. What you'd call a "drag and drop" site buildier is adobe Muse..

[@TheNewton]

Isn't the counter true though? brackets or vs code have DW dead to rights if you know how to use them?

[@elleshar666]

@@TheNewton My personal opinion is VS Code maybe, brackets I don't think so.. If you look from within that perspective you only need notepad.

[@Thorganby001]

Press F12 to show in browser, only when you have the view on the html code, not css file

[@defcodeOne]

VS Code has an "Open with Live Server" option (Alt + L, Alt + O), by default I'm guessing since I don't remember installing it, which renders all changes live to in browser page.

[@rc-wingman5719]

@@internet4543 For backend work yes! For me, frontend work in Dreamweaver is up to 50% faster. Selecting divs in a WYSIWYG editor makes life easy here. For me, VS-Code really sucks styling Static-Web frontend contents with CSS and SASS.

[@vasiovasio]

Wow... memories! Dreamweaver and FrontPage :) Back then '98, Windows 98 Second Edition came with preinstalled FrontPage Express, and this is my first touch with Web Design and Programming! Still, 25 later Programming for the Web is one of the Most valuable skills that you can have! :)

[@onlinepokeraddiction]

I'm learning the foundations right now (html, css, javascript). The thing that grabs my attention is that the starter project is a responsive website. The CSS designer is kind of cool. A nice little interface for adding css rules.

[@TytusDubel]

Try Pinegrow software :- )

[@SirDimpls]

There is a UI selection menu in the top right of the Dreamweaver window, it is set to "Developer" by default. I think that menu can switch to the visually-oriented UI mode?

[@tedfitzpatrickyt]

DW still has a very powerful GUI-configurable find-replace, super convenient for converting HTML

[@evolgenius1150]

I started using it when all these products were owned by macromedia. I quit using it around CS5 because it was a damn spaghetti factory and was shoving the spry framework in my face. I'm looking back into it, hoping that it's not all screwy like it was. I was able to work around that but the "live code" preview NEVER matched any other browser. I'm hoping it's better, I mean, this was back when we had to target IE 8 with transparency hacks when I dumped it.

[@sarahsaunders9667]

hahahaaha "it was a spaghetti factory". I havent used it since around 2004 and am somewhat apprehensive. But want to take advantage since I pay for the whole creative suite anyway. How has your experience been?

[@captaincustard2115]

How long was it before he realised he was in the developer workspace

[@ThiagoFigueirabr]

Damn, I remember those hover effects over the buttons back on the old Frontpage tool!

[@mmoarchives2542]

holy shit, i completely forgot about frontpage, those are some memories

[@vaibhavkumarpatel6863]

You have to make a small single page design in dreamweaver.It's good isn't it.Please make ones.

[@totallynotgad]

Thank You! Love the way you teach!

[@iPunchVideos]

Hi, does anyone know about Gary setup and rig. What is that Wacom and mic does he use i cannot see info anywhere?

[@3rdpoly]

have you tried scss with dreamweaver? I tried using some code from another video of yours, with maps and functions. But it seems to stop giving me any code hints the second I write primary and accent colours.. thoughts?

[@ericjohnson1811]

This is a good video. Thanks for posting.

[@Capeau]

I don't remember Dreamweaver opening with this UI layout by default? This shouldn't be happening... Your layout settings aren't ideal especially not for a first time run. At least the visual design window should also be visible. Are you sure you haven't opened it before starting to record or did you choose the coder layout at first launch? Normally it asks this when first launched.It gives you the choice between 'developer' and 'standard' workspece. You clearly have chosen the developer one. You should mention/show this and not blame it on DW. If you choose the standard workspace, you get a nicely split layout with a visual layout.

[@davereinhardt3733]

I learned control plus increases the size of the type

[@sto2779]

Do you like it compared from brackets? I still find Dreamweaver really buggy and over complicated...

[@djblast101]

I have not touched since 2009..... Crazy lol I have creative cloud suite let see if u convince me to try lol

[@tonylancer7367]

This Dreamweaver reminds me of Brackets because honestly, they look the same.

[@melindachang128]

Tony Lancer I use Brackets as my main setup, but I have been directed towards Sublime Text a couple times.

[@danisonic]

This version of Dreamweaver has Brackets integrated as the code editor.

[@richardramos7267]

Well, bracket is created by Adobe.

[@jamesveitch2798]

I used it back in the macromedia days. Moss it.

[@mmoarchives2542]

i absolutely hate dreamweaver these days, they removed every tool that allowed easy usability, like the AP div function

[@Livestreamfinland]

Does this do split screen on a 2nd monitor - where the code is on one screen and live the visual is on the other?

[@mmoarchives2542]

that's a monitor setup issue, you can stretch the program window between both monitors and adjust the split screen to the bottom screen, but not as a separate functionality

[@zakariaabdisalam1728]

Gary are there any upcoming courses u got on lynda or did u stop

[@mancerrss]

They should modernize this and compete with Webflow

[@crooker2]

Adobe needs to rethink and COMPLETELY re-build and re-design Dreamweaver. And they should be taking cues from GOOD no-code web builders like Webflow. Webflow is good, but it's pretty proprietary. A stand-alone, powerful visual website builder, that also had a strong emphasis on code, and a no-code animation and interaction builder would be VERY attractive to me.

[@djpacu]

macromedia... ahh :) long time ago. Flash & Dreamweaver were the best. Now vs code

[@Jhonfreddy15]

Are any of your courses still availble on LinkIn?

[@vaibhavkumarpatel6863]

Which version is these you are using

[@historydocs4491]

What in your opinion is the best web design software?

[@rc-wingman5719]

notepad is the best IDE for sure... 😉

[@JDAfrica]

I’m using an old version of dream weaver for PHP, but the hosting platform have been updated to a new PHP 7.5, so my code longer works (depreciated commands). Do you know if this Dreamweaver will work with current PHP platforms?

[@rc-wingman5719]

Yes, but no PHP frameworks like laravel.

[@slapmyfunkybass]

Once the only software to use for any serious web developer and industry standard in web design. No reason why it still couldn’t be used if you stuck to codeview.

[@crlshn]

yes to the 4k monitor, buy youtube is 1080p50.

[@IvanRosaT]

oh yeah, front page was my Jam, I did various websites sites there transitioned to MySpace. but then I moved to IT, now I'm trying to come back to the devs land. does anybody remember SWISH? If anybody would make an awesome tool for CSS. that would be a killer app or extension

[@IkechukwuOkwechime]

SWISH was the ISH.. the ability to create animated banners and embed them to your websites was every designer's dream back in the day. It's sad they went under and no updates were done.

[@gacacg4703]

I was using earphones and the music at the end scares me ha ha ha

[@daveprice9128]

it's under fonts code view

[@DigiDriftZone]

I haven't used Dreamweaver in 10 years as well. I'm really confused by Dreamweaver in 2019, who is it for? Any modern web app will use a JS framework like React with a backend API, or some kind of server rendering like Ruby on Rails and on the front end something Adobe XD or Sketch App for the design, or a CSS framework like Bootstrap to get started quicker. So what exactly is the point of Dreamweaver, who is it for? - is it just for beginners learning?

[@snipe3045]

Will you ever do a tutorial about fuzetools?

[@volodymyrs5310]

cool T-shirt

[@tanishgaming9464]

Great

[@TheNewton]

So is the main selling point a window layout that has a view of rendered html + code editor? How does this meaningfully differ from the *free* workflow using chrome+devtools with local file editing?

[@Kreemerz]

Like WordPress? WeirdPress sucks

[@charleskindall]

OWL is killing Adobe. Try the workspace button to see the different layouts.

[@fvandrade]

Não posso pagar por esses softwares da marca... ainda mais com o prejuízo que tomei recentemente

[@blackhorde22]

Dreamweaver now looks so basic compared to Dreamweaver 1.0, I have had to swap to another designer software because of it.

[@DumbSkippy]

Gawd, I can't believe you uploaded a video of yourself stumbling through Dreamweaver. I lasted until 10 minutes and I feel you stole 10 mins of my life. I won't be back.

[@flatmonk3y]

Go to window > Workspace Layout > Standard. That's much better layout

[@balajimg640]

Dreamweaver tutorial learn

[@tanmaysinha8145]

Dreamweaver cs6 is not working on Windows 10 x64. I just installed crack version of Dreamweaver cs6 on Windows 10.. plz fix it..

[@mahimmahfuz]

*hey bro visual studio code also have auto save extension. you don't know?* 😂😂😂

[@granuzlek]

This workflow.. just painful to watch 😜

[@DesignCourse]

It was painful to record, admittedly.

[@TernaryM01]

DREAMWEAVER IS DEAD