Web Development Tools

Web Development Tools, what else is out there?  What do you need?

Focus not on the tools that you use, but the out come you desire.

If you were asking someone to build a house, would you ask questions on hammers and saws?  Or would you discuss what you wanted the house to look like?

Think of things like Dreamweaver and Drupal as sets of tools. We need to focus on what we want the house to look like, not the tools we are going to use.

If we speak too much about the tools, you quickly can get bogged down by the technology.

Questions  to focus on:
What do you want the house to look like? 
Who is going to maintain the house?

What is Dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver is many things.  Dreamweaver is an HTML editor in the sense that it quickly allows the creation of HTML pages, with out the need to know HTML.  In this case you would use it in design view or WYSIWYG mode.

If you know HTML code Dreamweaver allows you to use a code view to design to apply and edit code quicker than you could if you typed it by hand.

There is no such thing as a "Dreamweaver" page, but rather a HTML page using CSS, and various other scripting language that Dreamweaver was used to create.

Dreamweaver is one of many HTML editors. (See a list of them here...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors)

Dreamweaver is a web development application which helps to to design web pages using various technologies such as CSS, HTML, and various other scripting languages. 

In fact, looking at What's new in Dreamweaver CS5, it now supports integration with Content Management Systems like Drupal.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/whatsnew/

"Dreamweaver CS5 software enables you to develop with PHP-based content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal; design with powerful CSS inspection tools; and test your web pages across browsers with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service.* CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time."