Dreamweaver we may split

Is Dreamweaver interesting still ?

I remember how hard it was to remember the syntax of a css property or the correct syntax of the different form tag when you are a beginner in web development. Fortunately, Dreamweaver does a good job with its auto completion feature. The side effect of the autocompletion is it helps you learn a language syntax. Dreamweaver was especially useful when you design CSS stylesheet, imagine you wanted a dashed border of 2 pixels of width of grey color, simply starting typing "bor" and you had a list of different properties rolling down a contextual menu, this is very handy.

But once you get a little proficient about CSS syntax, I must admit that Dreamweaver has littlel value. For example one of DW's weak point is the time it takes to synchronize or upload a file to the server, the same goes for downloading. For a file as little as two line of code, it took5 seconds not less. I am used to direct develop website when they are not big. I change a color and refresh to see the result, you now understand the burden of working in this manner with Dreamweaver.

The solution comes from Firefox

For a couple of months, I tried (remember always try new things :) ) an amazing Firefox addon for uploading and downloading from the server. At first a was a little doubtful, how can a firefox extension do better than Dreamweaver for uploading and downloading, after all it is just a XUL (javascript) program. To my surprise, FireFTP was very stable and fast and easy to configure. On top of this I added Notepadd++ which is a powerful free text editor with syntax coloring (okay you must know that it is enough for an average coder), with these two programs you can replace Dreamweaver for free !

should I say Byebye now to you Dreamweaver? Yes