Bring back GoLive-DreamWeaver Sucks

I have been using (wrestling with) DreamWeaver for several years now and I have to say it is the most un-intuitive program I have ever seen from Adobe. It is an absolutely horrible piece of software. Seems like it was made by Microsoft. It is nearly unusable. BRING BACK GoLive, please. Or make DreamWeaver intuitive and useable. I'll have to look for another web layout program.
BTW, I have been using Macs since the beginning in 1984 and have been designing web sites for close to 20 years, so it's not like I'm inexperienced or an amateur. I am actually an IT guy as well as a graphic designer, and have decades of experience beta-testing and using software (they should have had ME beta-test DW).

Goody! Wow, a genuine classic GoLive versus Dreamweaver debate! Golly, and here I am thinking we'd left GoLive behind us 6 or more years ago! This takes me back 8 years ago!
Anyway, problem with time is that it often makes the past look more beautiful than it actually was. At one time I taught both products on a weekly basis, and it was obvious at the time that Macromedia Dreamweaver was going to win out. DW was improving fast, and GL was lagging behind. Adobe management was struggling to get the web thing right (still is, in my opinion ;-) and decided on this grand idea to gobble up Macromedia.
(Well, we all know how THAT turned out: Fireworks development stopped, Freehand dead, Flash redirected to mobile (game) dev, Director marginalized, Authorware zombified, and Dreamweaver still trying to find its direction up till the moment I write this).
Well, perhaps I am being overly dramatic. Fireworks' existence was on the head block while at MM. Still, Macromedia had market leading products (animation, online/distance/multimedia learning/visual game development/etc) that, for the most part, have been... "neutered", for lack of better words.
Anyway, back on track: as I recall, GoLive generated some absolutely horrific code, even ten-12 years ago. It was a good application for those who did not want to code too much, and the interface was quite okay. But the code! Oh, that dreadful code. It was marginally better than (dare I say?) FrontPage. Dreamweaver, however, killed GoLive in the coding departement, and was a much more flexible and open editor than GL. Most coders I knew rejoiced when GoLive got the axe. I joined them in this, because during my GL classes I had to say "good things" about an application where I knew in my heart it just did not compare to DW, and was, for the most part, outdated.
Truly nostalgic memories. People love to polarize themselves into "us" against "them". (Replace either one with words like "Mac", "PC", Science", "Religion", "subscription model", "ownership", "spectrum", "C64", "you don't know code", "I know code", and so on. ;-P
As a solution to quick non-coding method to build websites: why not create a library of re-usable code snippets, and quickly mesh things together? Especially with Foundation or Bootstrap this can work fast and efficient. Or use something like this to quickly create a base to work with:
https://jetstrap.com/

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1 year to the day of this post, Dreamweaver CC still sucks! I just updated and I'm sincerely regretting it. I want CS6 back now! Can someone tell me how to "Command Z" my upgrade when I have creative cloud? Seriously, you removed the refresh button? I'm not talking about the Refresh TAG, I'm talking about the little button at the top that wasn't hurting anyone, and kept my page from jumping all over the place when I click back in design view. I don't care if F5 does the same thing, F5 isn't what I've been using for 5 years. What's even more stupid, is that the refresh button is there when you click on LIVE.... Tell me how this is functional! Obviously, if I switch to live mode it's going to be updated, yet you put the refresh button there? Come on!
I used to hold Adobe to a much higher standard, now I feel like they're trying to be Apple... Spewing out new [inferior] technology as fast as they can just to make an extra billion dollars.

This is a duplicate of this one: Bring back the Refresh button in Dreamweaver (Was: Dreamweaver CC "simplifying")

Adobe 9 sucks...bring back Adobe 7

What's the story with them removing most of the
commenting abilities that we had with Adobe 7?

What I meant is "the Text Box tool" in the Tools menu, when I right click on the test box field all I get is a text style menu option which lets me set the bold, underline and italic; I can edit the text box it's self but not the text.
Thanks,
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:01:10 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Adobe 9 sucks...bring back Adobe 7
That explains our confusion. Neither of those are commenting tools.
If by "text box tool" you mean "text field tool", right click on the field and choose "properties>appearance.
Have you tried right-clicking in the toolbar area to find the dimensioning tool?
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Bring back the little red X please?

With Adobe's continued regression into silent-movie-era palettes I'm having a harder and harder time distinguishing which one out of multiple open documents is the 'hot' one (the one I'm working on at the moment). Could you please bring back the red X box in the image window? It's not like I'm demanding that horrible blue bar from CS3 or anything. I mean. a little color to tip us off to what we're working on can't make all the monochrome purists run in terror can it?

Bump
Working on a crapload of images in multiple open windows today and this "feature" continues to make my work more difficult than it needs to be. And no, I don't do tabs.
If you're going to suck all the color hints out of the UI maybe you should get rid of that blue box in the upper left corner of every image window - it's just sooo annoying...

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I had to open a few old files and I was surprised to see that Illustrator CC geve me a "unknown file format" error. Luckily, I still had CS5 installed and was able to convert the files. But there will be a time when CS5 will not be compatible with my OS and I won't be able to open my old files. Please bring back the ability to open FreeHand files.

Yess!
Why did adobe kill Freehand (in my opinion still 100 times better than illustrator in many cases; esp. usability) first, then they killed Freehand import possibilites? That sucks so much!
I have thousands of FH files and need to keep an old Mac to be able to open them there...

Is there a way to bring back the "Open a New Tab" option via right-clicking on the Tab?

I just upgraded to latest version of Firefox (6.0). Yesterday it informed me that an upgrade to Firefox 5.(something) was available and asked if I wanted to upgrade. I went for it. However, I hadn't used it since then till today. Now when I opened it today it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to version 6.0. Without hesitation, I went for it too.
While this version looks nice, it feels a bit odd to use it. Previously whenever I wanted to open a new Tab, I right-clicked on any of the Tabs (active tab or any other Tab) and after right-clicking, it had the option to '''''Open a New Tab''''' along with few other options. Now there's no such option. There's the + button to open a new tab, but what if I want to open a link in a new tab by right-clicking on it? Similarly the option to Open in New Window is also missing.
Is there a way to bring back those previous Tab options/settings? If yes, how?
P.S. In my bookmark toolbar, when I click on a bookmark icon, it has the same options/settings as it previously had in the last version I used (last version I used was 3.something; while I'd upgraded to version 5.something I hadn't used it except for opening the browser when it asked me to upgrade to version 6.0). Options on right clicking the bookmark icon are:
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I'd also like to mention here that I know of the shortcut keys; so please don't waste your time by trying to help me that way. Thanks.

No. The Tab bar is a regular toolbar in current Firefox versions, so you get the normal right-click context menu of a toolbar if you right-click the tab bar.
You can double click on empty space on the tab bar to open a new tab if you do not want to use the new tab button.<br />
You can drag a link on that new tab button to open that link in a new tab.<br />
You can also drag the new tab button on another toolbar if you would like that better.<br />
Open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"<br />

Absolutely the WORST customer service!!! Customer disservice is more Absolutely the WORST customer service!!! Customer disservice is more appropriate! Bring back support to the U.S.!! Bring back support to the U.S.!

Absolutely the WORST customer service!!! Customer disservice is more appropriate! Bring back support to the U.S.!

Hi richmc. I will only deal with the last part of your message.
You say that you want to use Outlook 2007 to collect your mail. That is not a problem, it is just an email client. BT do not supply this email client. Microsoft do.
You cannot expect BT to be able to assist customers with all the different email clients available to use. You can get the server details etc to set it up yourself.
Most ISP's are the same on support issues for things that they do not supply.
BT do have a paid support service if you did want to use it but for things like email setup it should not be needed.
You also say that you have your own domain names. These NEED to be hosted somewhere to be able to use them for email.
I don't believe that BT do hosting anymore(Could be wrong). So you would need to get in touch with a hosting company, someone like Nethosting, 1&1, GoDaddy etc to set up an email hosting account and then set up your email client to your hosting companies email servers.
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Syncing a moved folder is not bringing back all the photos to Lightroom

I have moved and renamed a folder in the external harddrive. Syncing that moved folder in lightroom is not working in bringing back all the photos to Lightroom - Although all the photos exist in that folder as I have confirmed through windows explorer.
Another Option: If I choose "import photos to this folder option" in LR and browse to the source to that folder - the missing photos are shown as shaded back and the import button (bottom right corner) is not highlighted. Therefore I cannot select these missing photos and hence cannot import them to the folder.
PLEASE ADVISE!

In the Folders Panel, the original folder should be listed with a "?" mark, because Lightroom can no longer find it. Right-click on it, select "Find Missing Folder", then browse to and select the renamed folder in its new location.
Note....these type of problems will continue to happen if you continue to rename and/or move folders or files outside of Lightroom. Do it using Lightroom and no such problems will arise.

Bring Back the Apple MB869LL/A (A1242) Wired Compact USB Keyboard

I know Wireless and Bluetooth are great technologies! I know Apple makes it relatively easy to change batteries in their devices (magic mice and keyboards)!
However, I am running a few elementary school computer labs where we have many iMac computers and limited space.
One of my major obstacles from keeping these computers reliably operational is keeping keyboards alive with fresh batteries (We have wired mice). Also, since table space is limited, the standard FULL SIZE keyboards (with the numerical 10-key) takes space away from the mouse. A 10-key at this elementary school age level is really unnecessary.
It would be ideal if Apple could bring back their older version of the Aluminum Keyboard that was compact AND USB wired! The old model number was MB869LL/A (A1242).
These options are all that is currently available and neither is ideal:
FULL SIZED Wired Keyboard (that is too wide and the 10-key is unncessary): Wired Aluminum Keyboard MB110LL/B USB with Numeric Keypad
COMPACT Wireless Keyboard (that changing the batteries is too time consuming when you have 100's of computers in a lab to deal with):
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Looking for a compact, non-10-key, WIRED, USB, Apple compatible keyboard (that has brightness and volume controls built-in).
Anyone else support this efffort, please chime in (or offer alternate solutions or compatible hardware).
Thanks,
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"Looking for a compact, non-10-key, WIRED, USB, Apple compatible keyboard (that has brightness and volume controls built-in)."
Depending on your budget, you can find just about anything you want if you check the internet for computer peripherals. The biggest problem with the keyboard that you want would be its high price tag and finding a large (new-in-box) supply of them. I'm never surprised at the availability of keyboards that were never used with the computers that they shipped with. After Apple discontinued the ADB extended keyboards, I was still able to find new ones for my older fleet of beige G3s. As a less expensive alternative - but one that excludes your preference for brightness and volume controls - you may wish to consider a reasonably-priced, USB-wired keyboard for PCs, like the compact one shown at this eBay auction. A PC keyboard will work with a Mac, except for any programmable function/media keys that are part of the Windows software installed with the keyboard. One distinction between an Apple and a PC keyboard is the placement/juxtaposition of the two keys on either side of the space bar: The Windows logo key and the Alt key. When used with a Mac, the Windows key becomes the Apple Command key and the Alt key is the Option/Alt key. For your use, perhaps you could place a permanent sticker with the Apple "Command" symbol on the Windows key. In an elementary school lab, the stickers might be peeled off as soon as you've replaced them - which would be a nuisance.

Bring back iTunes syncing feature back!

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Please bring back the feature to sync via iTunes!

Mike,
First of all, I am grateful for the message you posted. At least you cared enough to provide your input.
Secondly, I am not so concerned about losing data. Because, such data reside in my macbook pro, my ipad, my iphone, and my backup of the macbook pro hard drive. So, I am okay in that front.
As far as someone taking my devices, they are password protected with non-simple (not just 4 digits standard setting) password along with features such as "Erase Data" turned on for so many failed attempts.
Given, such I have to stand by my first request to Apple if they would reconsider giving back the feature. For my peace of mind...
Thanks again for your input.

Is there a way to bring back the actual tab "bar"?

So in switching from FF3.6 to 5.0 I have noticed that the actual "bar" that holds the tabs is gone.
Observe:
[http://i.imgur.com/eU7lo.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eU7lo.jpg]
It's visually slightly annoying to not have a distinct separator between the tab area and the button toolbar, but that is something I can live with.
However I can NOT live with the extremely annoying functionality drawback that comes as a result of this. In 3.X and before you could right click anywhere in the tab bar and it would bring up the tab management menu. Now you can't bring up the menu from empty space because it treats that space as part of the rest of the UI and gives you a different menu, forcing you to mouse all the way over to a tab to accomplish the same end.
So my question is, does anyone know of a way, or an addon, that can bring back the actual tab bar? I find all of these UI changes to be nothing short of infuriating. I swear, Mozilla, Facebook, Pandora, Google, and Microsoft must all be in cahoots with each other because they're all introducing horrible UI designs at the same time.

Well I guess that's kind of cool that you can add buttons in the bar as well, but I honestly don't have a use for that and I think it would get in the way more often than not in most scenarios I can think of (there's a reason buttons were segregated from the tab bar and it wasn't tech limitations). The previous functionality is much more convienent and useful and, well, functional.
As for why FF5, well I've had the FF5 installation since before 6.0 was out, but the UI changes angered me so much that I abandoned it after about 20 minutes and went back to using my 3.6 installation; I've been letting the community stew and cook up solutions to the UI problems (status4evar for example) and like any good stew, giving it more time is better. Also a whole bunch of my addons (some of which are mission-critical to my browsing needs) were not [and a small few are still not] compatible with anything above 3.x, 4.x, or 5.x so I had to wait for those (mmm, stew). And then to top it off I figure the possibility that I'll run into upgrade problems is smaller if I go through the chain of updates rather than jumping from 3.6 straight to 7. And don't get me started on the whole rapid release schedule. :P

Bring back calendar list view in iOS!!

If you, like me, have just upgraded to the latest iOS 7.1, you will quickly notice that Apple has made another change to the calendar app by adding a hybrid view, which allows you to see the calendare and list view, but the list view is only for the current day selected!
At least in the previous version, you could still see list view by selecting search, but now even this functionality is gone!
For me, the list view is the most efficient way of seeing my appointments, calendar events etc, to get a good sense of what's going on.
In my view, a calendar with dots on it has no value, you get minimal information on your appointments.
An Apple fail! Bring back list view!!
In the meantime, are there any third party apps that display a list view calendar?
I mainly use it for google calendar and tripit calendar.

Carlo,
It is still there, just different.
When in the day view, touch the List View icon I have circled in the following image:

How can I do a system restore or bring back my Toshiba Sattelite A100 to its factory setting?

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Please bring back an option to Add Scroll Arrows!?

Mac OS X v10.7 Lion - has removed scrollbars and changed the direction of scrolling to better align with iphones, ipads, etc. Thankfully, there are options to go back to behavior similar to classic scrolling behavior, with one important exception. Unfortunately, scroll arrows are now completely gone. OUCH !
Through preferences one can make scrollbars be presented. Behavior can be based on the type of device being used, or scrollbars can be displayed all the time. I choose to display scrollbars all the time.
Through preferences one can make the scrolling direction go back to what one expects if one used Mac OS X versions prior to 10.7 Lion. When I'm scrolling content on my MacBook Pro, I'm either using devices that are not "embedded" in the display (the trackpad or the mouse). When others do scrolling say on an iPad, where the scrolling is directly on the screen, I get it that the direction is different. But don't change up and down so it will match a phone or tablet when I'm on a device where I'm doing indirect manipulation of window content.
To the core complaint... Scroll Arrows are Gone: I cannot get scroll arrows any more. Take a look at Mail or Safari. This is especially needed in Mail. I get lots of mail. I want to be able to scroll up and down by pages (yes there is another preference for this) using the scroll region. I can do that. But I also want to be able to scroll the window (say preview window, or mail message content window) by one line at a time. However, there is no option that I can find. Maybe I want to see the whole paragraph at the same time. Maybe I want to see a code fragment of 5-10 lines all at one time.
Some might say we should just use the up and down keys on the keyboard. I would like to do that. However, with Mail, Apple still has not provided the ability to move from message to message in the preview pane without MARKING THE MESSAGE AS READ ! Most email messages (like this one :-) are too long at least for quick browsing. When I use the up/down arrow to go from message 42 to message 49, then 42 thru 49 are marked as read, even though I can do this in a second or so with seven down-arrow presses. Certainly I can't read 7 real-life emails in a second. See below for a post two years ago requesting this feature which many Mail programs have, but which has never been added to Mac's Mail app:
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    Marking "Read" When Viewing in Preview Pane
    ...Similar discussions occurred on 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6. Here we are on 10.7, but this request has been ignored...
Please bring back some method for turning on scroll arrows again! And yes, give the option for controlling whether they're stacked at bottom of scroll region, or for using the more common model of up arrow at top of region and down arrow at bottom.
Sadly, this is also a core behavior of Mac OS X 10.7. I have Chrome installed. It does not allow scroll arrows either.
So, Apple... Accept that you went too far. Bring back options to turn on scroll arrows.
...and go back and review that mail preview behavior too, while you're at it.
Thanks,
Alan Carwile

Alan,
while the two finger scrolling is a sometime substitute for scroll arrows it is completely inadequate as a full time solution. It is useless in programs like excel that can have multiple split screens and only scrolls in one at at time and there is no reliable way that doesn't affect other operations to tell the program what screen you want to scroll in. With scroll arrows I got arrows for each window when I split the screen. It is typical of apple's (and steve jobs) hubris that they would eliminate these. It's fine if you think it is more sleek efficient use of the screen not to have scroll bars, but why recognize the need for scroll bars and allow us to turn them on and not scroll arrows?.
Forgetting the split screen problem, on the large databases I have with 10s of thousands of records anything other than scroll arrows is unpredictable because the scrolling speed is dictated by the size of the database and the sideways scrolling with the track pad is clumsy.
The lack of compatability in Lion whether with programs or user interface speaks poorly of Apple and it is the first time in a long time I've thought I might be headed back to the dark side.
And I think they do this on purpose, to make people bend to their paradigm -- see Job's refusal for the longest time to let keyboards connect to the iphone.
And, I know I'm not speaking to apple here, I'm speaking to Apple users. Apple doesn't seem to care or think it can do any wrong and has had that attitude for a long time.
brian

Using US ipad in the UK and buying iphone 4 in the US to bring back to UK

I am thinking of buying a ipad 2 in the US when I visit there to bring back to the UK. I will then be heading home to Australia next year. Can someone help me to confirm:
1) is there any issues (eg power differences, adaptors, getting wifi set up) buying an ipad in the US and then using it in the UK? Do I just need to get a UK Sim (can you get a prepaid sim for ipads rather than locking into a contract?) I was going to buy the 16gb wifi on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC769LL-Tablet-Black-NEWEST/dp/tech-data/B0013FRNKG/ ref=de_a_smtd, this seems to be pretty much the same spec as the US version on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC769LL-Tablet-Black-NEWEST/dp/tech-data/B0013FRNKG/ ref=de_a_smtd only difference I can see is the UK version says '
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3) Is it possible to buy the iphone 4 handset in the US and then use it in the UK?
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If you are getting the wifi ony version then you don't need a sim card - you only need a micro-sim card for the 3G/wifi versions. If you do get a 3G version in the US then get the AT&T version as they are GSM/sim based; the Verizon model is CDMA based and doesn't use sim cards.
Wifi is the same.
I don't know whether the iPhones are locked or not.

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