Dreamweaver CC tutor wanted in Vancouver BC Canada

Question

I have spent a whole months at about 8 hours a day and 16 hours a day on weekend plus 16 hours a day x 10 full days holiday trying to understand how to work with Dreamweaver CC and I am so frustrated of always seeing these errorssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss every time I try to do something.  Anyone interested in providing 3 hours solid hands-on lessons?  I would pay good money to anyone in my area to sit down with me and hash out some of the functions.  thanks.

Answer 1

Nancy wrote, "Bugs are not unique to Adobe Dreamweaver"... Nonsense, I say! Use Sublime Text for a week, or a month, and tell us what went wrong. Ditto WIndows Notepad, if you want really hardcore easy coding.
Dec 4, just 6 days before your post, I got off the line with one of Adobe's senior programmers, managing a Dreamweaver Engineering Team.  He had no objections to my posting factual [guiding] material in such posts as this one... So here we go!
Open your eyes and observe a new, global digital network.
Now, there are so many "bugs" for the EFI/UEFI based Windows 8.1 64 bit operation of DW CC, that it is effectively inoperable for certain tasks, and for some old and valued Adobe customers, it is useless today. "Especially where web design is mission critical." Today. When you use it on new hardware, DW will crash and/or damage your software system's data. "The entire Dreamweaver Team at Adobe is doing everything they can", to pick up and move on. They have NOT given up. Everyone using the product is (naturally) sending usage data to Adobe. The Team is aware of everything that is going wrong.
Wherein, "All our efforts are going into the new 64-bit version."... Presently, bugs are devouring the carcass of 32 bit Dreamweaver CC, as far as the new EFI 64 Windows 8 machines are concerned. But some things still work. Most importantly, Adobe is paying professional programmers to fix what's wrong, and build something that works. Post threads like Hang/Freeze (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1249157) are entirely discouraging. But realistic. In Vancouver, Dreamweaver night school classes would be an endangered species. If not extinct.
However, in addition to Sublime http://www.sublimetext.com (versioning and code block juggling), Oracle has http://www.netbeans.org (fava development) which comes right from the horse's proverbial mouth, for free! Then there's http://brackets.io/ (whatever) and http://www.webuilderapp.com (code formatting) and http://www.coffeecup.com/software/ (pokearound moods) and last for now, but way ahead in usability (some may say), the little known http://pinegrow.com (amazing, you Adobe builders! though that demo crash kind of says it all). Here, if you are still in time http://www.mightydeals.com/deal/pinegrow-web-designer.html. There are dozens of more reliable newborn alternat ives, all picking up a piece of useful functionality... Okay, one more for you developers out there, from ComCast's screencast, JING! http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html which you can turn your also free Netbean on, and build a cute site app (for all you hollywood type coders out there, lush). So many insanely beautiful tools!
A piece of the functionality... Gone are the days of a single muti-faceted tool. But Adobe does PROMISE functionality in workflow that is distinguishing. The old DW will not survive, it is leaving us, along with new Web Matrix and SQL Sharepoint. Adobe is building something new, more secure, more versatile. DW continues to house some of that new direction. Even if we end users can't see it there, we can feel it. So some of us hang on with hope in our hearts.
Sure DW's going to smash the OS. But let's get those files published in a 100% effective FTP environment offered by DW CC. We can have a cup of coffee after, while Windows reinstalls. For those not aware, the new EFI machines can boot in under 1 second and install Windows 8.1 in 5 minutes. DW install is slowed by a dl and takes an horrendous 20 minutes, but an Adobe Team is working on that too (it all comes down to encryption).
Let's recall as we sip, Microsoft's flagship editor Expression Web is falling out of support next month, May 2014. With no replacement in sight. Last month, EW's CSS3 preview became like Adobe's Live Java... NOT! Let's get real. Concerned words from W3C over rapid change, now Wiki dust and the thrill forgotten for most developers. Devicing is the big thing today, which even Orable hasn't got a firm grip on. Each manufacturer is going open source with its own new App language. Let's look over a rash of alternatives that are no longer toys. Let's fill up our tool boxes with loads of goodies, Okay! Don't forget CREATIVE CLOUD! HTTPS://CREATIVE.ADOBE.COM/PRODUCTS
DW is no longer a leading editor. DW, like EW, is just another tool for the toolbox. Each of us, on our own machines, has to decide what is worthy of a setup, each time installs roll around... Sadly, DW and EW are both no longer leading edge tools. But frankly, that leading edge software niche these days, is a BIG, BLANK HOLE. Time to let go. Inclusively.
Adobe and Microsoft are both saving bullion and watching, waiting. Given kind words shared here with professionals from both corporations, I don't see anything coming. The toolmakers are watching, evolving. It's not time yet to consolidate. Tomorrow.
Please don't ask me what's coming. So much change is afoot! Now, Asia's market is pushing in on Empire's old footholds. For a month now, if I am online and call my wife in Asia, and her cell is by her landline there, my Net and her cell both cut out. But GET THIS CLEAR. My web design PC has no Wifi. But my PC is hardwared to the non-wifi printer and to the wifi modem. Don't forget, with my wife gone, there's no cell phone here! Wife's Mac does wifi, and it's wifi'd to the web, which is hardwired (through my PC, remember) to the non-wifi printer, which is off, but plugged in, its teeny node light blinkering with the Mac, BESIDE THE WIRELESS LANDLINE UNITS THAT BLINK WHEN THEY ARE IN USE. Unplug printer, or power off sleeping Mac, problem solved. Cell in Asia and my Net, both start working again. Other EASY!!! fix, move the cell away from the landline in Asia. See, easy fix. We all understand, right?
At least, we understnd why buggy new tech has all of us scrambling and hacking around like teens on hormone buzzers. So take a deep breath, reflect on whatever factual duress your family is going through today. Finally, read again, kindly dear reader, quotes above, words in bold spoken by programming for Adobe, the only major Web author still standing. Take it easy folks. Tool up!
Hope this all helps.
Not sure, but I think Intel's response to EFI is big (somehow). My CPU is screaming and cold at the same time. Weird new technology. Message was edited by: Mark.Stewart