Dreamweaver CMS Tools or Adobe CMS?

Question

With the rise of free CMS systems like WordPress, Pligg, Joomla, and Drupal it would be nice to see Adobe create some kind of developer tools for some of these products. Some great things might be:
1. A CMS Project Setup Dialog in Dreamweaver that provides the following:
     a.Scaffolding    
    b.Code assist specific to the CMS being designed for
     c.Code Snippets
Or….what does everyone think of an Adobe CMS?
Something that is flexible enough to easily support Flash, Flash Builder, Air applications, or Spry widgets. This System could be a based on, say-- Drupal with special modules or plugins to interface with Adobe products. This way there would be no need to create an entirely new community or try to complete with popular and well supported CMS products.
This would be a great way to develop Flash apps for a CMS. If a special version of AMF was built into the Adobe CMS so that users were forced to use best practices for connecting Flash to a CMS. Also this would provide a great prebuilt structure for Flash developers to tie into and get their apps up and running faster.
This could be great for Air applications as well.
What does everyone else think?

Answer 1

Fair enough, I think you make some good points here on the Adobe CMS issue.
How do you feel about more CMS oriented tools for say template building? Seems to me Dreamweaver is rapidly being surpassed by Eclipse based HTML editors like aptana. I don’t know anybody who isn’t doing most of their development/design work within some kind of CMS system. Perhaps I’m alone in this but I don’t think so.
The ability to quickly style something and view the results as I work is what makes DW so much better than typing everything by hand in notepad. If style control and document organization assistance is not keeping up with the commonly used tech of the day there is no reason to use DW.
It would be nice to see Dreamweaver be more robust in the following areas:
It would be great to have the Property Inspector merged with the CSS window. This particular UI example is very intriguing http://vimeo.com/8109356. The current CSS styling in DW is too cumbersome; you can type the code faster than you can create something using the menus. Why not tie in code snippets with the CSS styling? With this approach I could right click on an object and select a “save style as snippet” option. Later, on a new project I could easily reuse this by selecting an item and in the “style” inspector applying the snippet. Dreamweaver should by default place css in an external .css document that can be assigned or generated by DW. Yes, I know that DW can do this to an extent but it needs to be pushed further. “Smart Style” creation would be nice, by this I mean DW would automatically separate out layout css (divs and ids) and font/element style css into their own separate documents if I want. Joomla templates often have multiple css documents.
Custom code– Code hinting and code snippets are great but it would be nice to see these go farther and play a bigger role. It would be great to be able to add my own Layouts to the new document window.
Project instead of Site—it would be awesome to have the ability to create “projects” like The Flex IDE (eclipse) does. I should be able to customize these Project’s directories and pre-populated files using DW. This way if I’m going to build a website that needs a folder for CSS and JS (and I also want the css file to be named style.css and the javascript to be called js.js) that could be a Project template I select and Dreamweaver builds it out for me.
Grid Wizard—it would be great to have a layout wizard during the new document setup where I can place in column width and number, gutter width and margin width. Dreamweaver would then output an HTML and supporting css document within the project.