Adobe takes great pride in the Creative Suite applications they produce and sell. Targeting all creative and production professionals, Adobe’s applications are an industry standard, as well as heavily relied upon work-flow staples. A full list of the applications that Adobe sells can be found here. Adobe sells all of these applications as bundles they call Creative Suites, and as standalone pieces of software. Among these applications is a piece of software called Adobe Dreamweaver, (the web-design and development tool).
Dreamweaver has always been clunky, slow and rather un-responsive, making it feel like a piece of native Windows software. This new version of Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 4, is sadly no exception.
Some early reviews left beta testers stunned and thoroughly disappointed, with a couple of reviewers saying the following:
Having test-driven the new Adobe Dreamweaver beta myself, you can download it here, I have not seen ONE feature or improvement that would sway me from Panic’s Coda.
Panic is a Portland based company (they’re our neighbors!) that have spent countless hours developing a Magical web-development application for the mac-based developer. I find ZERO use for Adobe’s Dreamweaver as Adobe has completely missed the mark yet again with CS4.
Please be cautious: We do NOT recommend professionals who rely on these programs daily to download these betas on their primary machines. If you have a secondary computer, then we suggest testing out these betas on that. Please keep in mind that this is beta software and finding bugs is expected.
2 Comments to “Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 still smells like Windows.”
Hi, I have a question. I have worked for some time with dreamwaver and other HTML Editors. I am now learnint flash and can not understand one thing. Why everybody is using Apple when it comes to web design.
I have friends who use macs, I have personally seen almost each of Steve Job’s presentations in the last year or so, but I can not understand this. Could you please explain me ?
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Hey Niko, I would say the best way to learn Flash is to get your hands dirty. Although it can be very daunting, Adobe’s made some changes to the newest version of Flash that may help in general. One thing I’ll say, there’s no way to simply rush through it. Take your time and take it slow. Allow yourself to mess up and break things on whatever you’re working with. Don’t get angry at yourself and it’ll get there.
In a nutshell, Flash can be broken into two segments. 1)ActionScript and 2)Keyframes — You’ll want to have at least a moderate understanding of both before you take on any “paying” gigs. Getting paid to learn is never a good idea.
For a great launching pad: http://www.flashkit.com/
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