Maintaining a website with Dreamweaver 8 vs. CS3

Hi there!
Please bear with me . . . I am squeaky new to Dreamweaver and
website building in general.
I have a website that I need to maintain that was created in
Dreamweaver 8. I was planning on purchasing the newest version when
the original developer of the website tells me that I should really
use the Dreamweaver 8 version to avoid wonkiness and lots of
cleaning up. My questions:
1. Is this true? If so, where do I get an old version
(Dreamweaver 8) from and how much does an old version cost?
2. If it is true -- and I end up using CS3, what sort of
errors/shifting/wonkiness can I expect and why does it happen
(laymen terms please)? Will it cause a lot of extra work?
Many thanks!

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:27:48 +0000 (UTC), "girlinthemoon"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi there!
>
> Please bear with me . . . I am squeaky new to
Dreamweaver and website building
>in general.
>
> I have a website that I need to maintain that was
created in Dreamweaver 8. I
>was planning on purchasing the newest version when the
original developer of
>the website tells me that I should really use the
Dreamweaver 8 version to
>avoid wonkiness and lots of cleaning up. My questions:
>
> 1. Is this true? If so, where do I get an old version
(Dreamweaver 8) from
>and how much does an old version cost?
>
> 2. If it is true -- and I end up using CS3, what sort of
>errors/shifting/wonkiness can I expect and why does it
happen (laymen terms
>please)? Will it cause a lot of extra work?
>
> Many thanks!
I would say that if you make changes with Dw CS3 - it will
still be ok
in Dw8 - unless you use Spry - which isn't in Dw8.
I still have Dw8 installed and sometimes use it on files
created with
Dw CS3 with no problems.
~Malcolm N....
~

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>For the past 23 years I have taught myself all the
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>
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