Hello. I am a college student in a beginning web design class. Dreamweaver is taught in this class but I hear a lot of people say they don't like Dreamweaver. When I am finished with the class; what would anyone suggest I learn in place of Dreamweaver?
I seriously hate Dreamweaver, but i found it very helpful for web design. But, it not that effective for web development that's why i install Netbeans IDE to work with PHP and CakePHP as well.
I am using Coda at the moment because I love its simplicity and usability, however I appreciate Sublime Editor which is so far the best editor I have ever used. I would suggest you to check it out.
Another vote for Notepad/Notepad ++, works really well and not as bloated as Dreamweaver. Bit trickier to use though if your not very knowledgeable with html/CSS.
I'll personally recommend you to use Netbeans only if you want for PHP or Java Thing. Netbeans is more Developer thing rather than designer. Strict to Dreamweaver if your primary concern is Web Design otherwise switch to netbeans because it support plugins and important services like database, Hudson, Frameworks, Gut, Subversion etc that is helpful to every developer, plus it is an open source service.
I extended my Adobe subscription last night and to my shock Dreamweaver was still a product in their software roster. I thought that software had died off years ago. In it's defence it was decent until a certain point where it just became bloatware.
Shout out to EditPad Pro (or it's free version EditPad Lite). I used this to build my stuff for the longest time until I needed more functionality that it couldn't offer. I still use it for document editing and inspection as it handles large files like a champ.
My main tool these days is PHPStorm. I hated it at the start, but the more I configure my environment to suit how I code and what I do in my development cycles, the more I've come to like it. JetBrains have IDE's for a few other languages so I'd suggest taking a look at their site if you are looking for a new IDE.
