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Theming and Coding Drupal with Dreamweaver CS4

Using Dreamweaver for drupal development has not been promoted in a good light. So I've decided to do this write-up to explain some of the good and bad point of using one of Adobe's flagship products to theme and code in drupal.

THE GOOD

  • Keeping clean code is very easy with dreamweaver as it highlights all the html and php code for you.
  • You can setup Dreamweaver to load all the standard drupal files such as .info .module or any other text based format.
  • After your done editing all your files you can upload them to all in one application of course this can make life a little bit easier for quickly theming, or tweaking code.

THE BAD

  • Using Dreamweaver may seem like overkill if you just use it for Drupal development (many coder prefer using programs such as notepad++ or even notepad to create all the text based files.)
  • Sometime Dreamweaver is a bit on the slow side as it performs some functions rather slowly such as ftp, deleting files, etc.