Dan Says:
"Easy, I am no longer interested in any Adobe Updates, I will use Dreamweaver CS3. Also, who told Adobe that I want to learn how to build solid and reliable tables? I didn't pay more than $500 for Adobe to tell me what I should learn or not, and yes. I'm quite insulted."
Gemma Horton:
"This is very annoying and means I will have to keep both the old version of Dreamweaver and the New on my computer. They are also faster and a lot easier to use when you have to turn out 30 versions of one email in the space of two hours in a busy company."
Fleiva:
"Layout mode was a "novice" solution, I knew it wasn't perfect nor reliable, but it helped me A LOT, therefore, I'll stick with CS3 until you guys fix it, I'm sure you will be considering the amount of designers disappointed at this."
Margaret Marsh:
"As a tutor of Dreamweaver since version 2, I don't understand the logic behind removing Layout Tables. Many graphic designers who are moving to web work really appreciate the ease of drawing a layout table ... very similar to drawing boxes in Illustrator. They can put the cells exactly where they want them ... and they hate regular tables. They are not coders, don't want to be coders - just want to put into their web pages the designs they have been used to creating in Illustrator and InDesign. Bad move Adobe -life is too short to worry about setting a table in code!"
George:
"Well, that's annoying. If I wanted to code, then I wouldn't be buying Dreamweaver, would I?"
Great point George with that last statement. Truly, Dreamweaver since it's creation has saved programmers and designers all the headache from hard coding their websites from scratch. You know the 'open bracket <' 'html text' 'closed bracket >' (i.e. ). When you finally got to a good looking site design it wasn't only tempting to just copy and paste the code into a new project and use the same layout, it was necessary as it would take an eternity to create another site from scratch. See Code Example Below:
Now that the newest release is missing that essential tool, web developers are finding themselves just continuing to utilize the old version as production time is much faster than hard coding the table layouts. Or worse yet for the Adobe company, users are looking for better alternative softwares out there that have the same functionality as Dreamweaver and the ability for a layout mode. There are several free open source alternatives such as (Kompozer, Amaya, Bluefish Editor, Screem, Quanta Plus, Aptana Studio, etc.).
It is scary to think that the once "Super Web Development Tool" is going to start seeing users fish in other ponds for their various web development needs. Long live Adobe Dreamweaver. Long live the Layout Mode.
