Is Dreamweaver the best web design software to learn for an aspiring web designer?

Hi Everyone,
Perhaps difficult to get an unbiased answer to this in a
Dreamweaver forum but I'm sure most of you considered other web
development software before you went with Dreamweaver. Of course
the answer is not as straight forward as just choosing one piece of
software over another. I understand that there isn't really one
piece of software that ticks every box for the web designer. What I
mean is that there isn't one standalone piece of software that's
best for web design (HTML, CSS etc.), graphics and animation etc.
and that's why we have things such as Adobe Creative Suite. Anyway,
sticking to web design and development in the Dreamweaver sense,
would I be correct to advise someone who wants to work in the field
of web design to use Dreamweaver as their main tool? Particularly,
I would be interested to know if Dreamweaver really is the industry
standard as it's important to consider future job prospects.
I hope you understand what I'm asking.
Thanks, in anticipation for your help.
P.S. Has anyone heard of Enterprise Works?

LOL... sure!
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>> Really? I've always thought that was what the web
development world meant
>> by "web design", in other words, the overall
process. After all, many of
>> us name our profession using those terms.
>>
>> But I can live with your point of view too. :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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>> "Murray *ACE*"
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>>> Seems to me that you are using the word in a
larger scope than is
>>> normally used in the web development world. But
I can live with it.
>>> And, I won't hold it against you.... 8)
>>>
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so!)
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>>> "P@tty Ayers ~ACE"
<[email protected]> wrote in
>>> message
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>>>>
>>>> "SnakEyez02"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> John, Murray's point, which I do agree
with is that you cannot
>>>>> "design" with
>>>>> Dreamweaver. Designing is where someone
comes up with the initial
>>>>> graphics for
>>>>> the website.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, but you're using the English word
"design" according to a limited,
>>>> secondary meaning. The word "design" has a
much wider meaning than just
>>>> "making graphics". As you can see from the
standard dictionary
>>>> definition I posted earlier, the primary
meaning of the word "design"
>>>> is "to create, fashion, execute, or
construct according to plan". Using
>>>> this most common meaning of the word,
Dreamweaver most definitely is
>>>> software whose purpose is accurately
described as "web design".
>>>>
>>>> It is true, of course, that Dreamweaver
doesn't create graphics. But
>>>> it's inaccurate to say that it doesn't
design web pages. You can easily
>>>> *design* web pages in Dreamweaver without
ever creating a single
>>>> graphic yourself.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just saying. :-)
>>>>
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Development
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Dreamweaver cannot do the graphics
manipulation and it does not
>>>>> have the design tools that are available
in Fireworks and Photoshop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dreamweaver can place the image slices
into a layout and use CSS for
>>>>> repeating-backgrounds and so forth, but
the process really starts in
>>>>> one of the
>>>>> mentioned applications. So what he is
trying to say is that the page
>>>>> is
>>>>> designed in Fireworks or Photoshop, but
then Dreamweaver turns that
>>>>> design into
>>>>> HTML for a working webpage.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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