The last time I used Dreamweaver was in 2009 when I was putting together a site at a small business, my first job after college in a recession-hit market.
These days I know HTML/CSS pretty well, but do still use a DW-style tool to build simple websites without an IDE: Bootstrap Studio[0]. with a customizable barebones Bootstrap grid system under the hood. It's pretty powerful, GUI-based flexbox positioning, custom code support, split code/design view, SFTP upload built-in. I've used it to export an HTML design to flat files, and edit them in an IDE to hook it up to CMS logic, so there isn't any app lock-in or spaghetti code.
A new feature I really like is the "blog" function, where you can assign a folder to be the "blog", and the app will build an index page containing all those entries upon hitting "publish". The final export is all static HTML and CSS, so it's a way to upload to places like Amazon S3 and Neocities without the need for an underlying server-side blog platform.
These days I know HTML/CSS pretty well, but do still use a DW-style tool to build simple websites without an IDE: Bootstrap Studio[0]. with a customizable barebones Bootstrap grid system under the hood. It's pretty powerful, GUI-based flexbox positioning, custom code support, split code/design view, SFTP upload built-in. I've used it to export an HTML design to flat files, and edit them in an IDE to hook it up to CMS logic, so there isn't any app lock-in or spaghetti code.
A new feature I really like is the "blog" function, where you can assign a folder to be the "blog", and the app will build an index page containing all those entries upon hitting "publish". The final export is all static HTML and CSS, so it's a way to upload to places like Amazon S3 and Neocities without the need for an underlying server-side blog platform.
[0] https://bootstrapstudio.io/