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Originally Posted by draggar  Good suggestion unless the person making the site doesn't have the knowledge to program or the funds to purchase software like Dreamweaver (and if you're going to do that, bite the bullet and get the whole Creative Suite). |
Learning from scratch doesn't need Dreamweaver, or any other HTML editor for that matter. I personally use a glorified notepad. All you really need is an editor that tabs all of your .html files and that applies colours to the code appropriately. Dreamweaver is good in that it lists suggestions - but many of these are deprecated and have not been implemented properly by the people who coded the respective browsers. The point of learning from scratch is that you
learn to program 
MAllie:You might want to investigate Notepad++ if you choose to learn from scratch. Quote:
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Templates can be a great way to learn web development. Sure, they can look templated and may not work 100% but it will give them a chance to modify a "working" site and expirement with layouts etc to not only see what can be changed but also start to learn the basics of web development.
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Really depends what template you buy. Some use over-complicated code or bad practices like tables.
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Programs like DW and Web Expressions (and most HTML editors) also tend to add in a lot of fluff into your programming which will need to be taken out to optimize the site for speed (but don't get me wrong, they're great for updating an entire site (many pages) at once.
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Agreed; unless you just use DW for the code view.
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A lot of my sites are made or maintained with Dreamweaver and I've had no issues with IE, FF, or Safari 9for my Mac friends). Some features won't work with some browsers but that is an issue with different browsers, not the program made to make the site.
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In my experience you always have to code hacks yourself. Dreamweaver does not take care of these. I use Linux these days anyway, so latest version of DreamWeaver isn't an option; but that's a different discussion altogether!