Poor site maintenance tool

Question

I know that I complain about Dreamweaver a lot. But, that is
because there are a lot of things to complain about Dreamweaver. I
know a lot of programmers love it and it's probably a great tool
for writing scripts etc. but for site maintenance I find it very
weak to the point of being pathetic (and job threatening).
One of my clients has a site that is quite large -with
approximately 2,300 items to keep track of (pages, images, etc.).
Dreamweaver has not been able to sufficiently manage the site well.
It constantly loses track of page links, and just this morning I
discovered that Library Assets on several pages have mysteriously
become unlinked. But the kicker is, if I make an update to the
Asset, Dreamweaver ACTS like it is making the updates to all of
those pages - but it isn't. That kind of poor linking and dropping
page information is unacceptable. Other coding issues have
periodically popped up as well - Drop Menus for some reason stop
working and must be replaced even tho nothing has been done to
them. They just stop working.
And again, Dreamweaver is terrible at uploading updated files
to the server. It often skips pages and images that have just been
updated - causing me to have to manually triple check each file to
make sure it was uploaded. Not a real confidence building piece of
software.
Those are just the most recent developments in Dreamweaver's
poor site management. I've been on Dreamweaver seriously for a year
now and frankly I have not been impressed by it's performance at
all.
The program interface also doesn't add any ease of use to the
work flow either. The Windows "explorer" navigation is terrible and
I swear they must have used the same rendering engine that Internet
Explorer 6 uses because they look exactly the same - terrible.
Thanks for promoting such a crippling application Adobe.
On the bright side now I know how all of those Microsoft IT
professionals feel about job security due to terrible software that
they support.

Answer 1

"Damn the torpedos" <[email protected]>
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>I know that I complain about Dreamweaver a lot. But, that
is because
>there are
> a lot of things to complain about Dreamweaver.
The problems you list certainly sound like showstoppers. All
I can say
is that I have never encountered them, but I don't maintain
such large
sites, so that might explain the difference. Getting things
off your
chest here undoubtedly helps you let off steam, but it
doesn't get the
message to where it really matters: the development team. If
you come
across serious issues that affect your workflow, file
detailed bug
reports through the feature request/bug report form:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Rather than pile all your complaints into one submission,
focus on one
issue at a time, and give detailed steps of how to reproduce
specific
problems.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com