Comments on: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 still smells like Windows.

By: Marco Conti

Marco Conti — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:47:04 +0000

Well, I am a web developer and I have both a Mac and (3) Pc.
Honestly, if I could take both machines and mix the best and toss the rest I would probably end up to close to the perfect computer. Both Macs and PCs have their strengths and weaknesses, but for a professional web developer I feel that having both is a much for various reasons:

Reason #1: My clients have Macs and PCs. Until I bought my mac mini I was using an old G3. It was so slow and old that effectively I didn’t use it. Now with the mini in my array I can do tech support for my Mac clients and see what they see.

Reason #2: Being bale to interact with my websites (All CMS based, all dynamic) in both platform is a necessity. Safari from PC does not behave exactly like its Mac version. With IE7 (and 8,6,5.5) being exclusively PC based I can’t understand how a Mac web developer could do without a PC or bootcamp. For my money 2 machines also build redundancy in case one bites the dust.

In regard to Coda, I agree it’s an excellent app and I agree DW is bloated. However, after fine tuning my workflow on Dreamweaver (and trying just about every app on the market) for my type of development DW is still it.
The time saving I experience when using the split screen, roundtrip CSS that DW allows cannot be beat. DW search is also vastly superior to Coda.
DW CSS handling is also better than Coda (although Coda’s is pretty good and I could live with it)
But I am keeping an eye on Coda hoping that future improvements will allow me to adapt my workflow to it.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:59:30 +0000

Why is this under Adobe, really this is nothing more than a Panic promotional piece?

In response to Niko not everyone is using Mac for web design, many shops are Microsoft based.

I’ve yet to truly experience a “Wow I’m glad I bought this Mac moment” in fact for a knowledgeable PC user the “ease of use” claim is bogus, most days I figure I should have used the additional money the mac cost me to juice up a Windows based laptop in order to receive a performance boost for the additional cash.

But at least I feel I fit in with it on the table at Starbucks now!

By: Aviv

Aviv — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:51:17 +0000

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/

By: Niko

Niko — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:19:34 +0000

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 ?