Who Uses DW? And, I Could Not Answer The Question.

Question

I was in conversation with a friend recently and mentioned I was taking a DW tutorial and thought it was really nice. I mentioned that I could easily see a corporation or professional developers using DW. So, my friend asks me, "Who uses DW? Can you show me a website?" And, of course I could not answer.
Can someone show me an example of a large website(s) developed with DW without upsetting developers or the company? I have NO doubt that thousands of examples exist, but since I am new to DWCC I could not give examples.
Thanks,
David In Texas

Answer 1

I have built several cms web sites and a complete company intranet and ems in Dreamweaver but, and here's the but, I use Dreamweaver because of the UI and the live view features. Most of the PHP coding I do only starts with the default Dreamweaver server behaviors and bindings. I use them because I can generate code that gets the concept down and working in just a few clicks.
Most of the PHP is fairly good, but I spend a bunch of time editing code by hand. Dreamweaver is a very good code editor and the code hinting is great.
CSS is kind of OK in Dreamweaver, better in CC. It's very easy to get the basics down quickly. Here again, I end up doing a lot of tweaking by hand because it faster. The new CSS design tools in CC are amazing for organizing code.
I work mostly on a Mac and Coda is also a tool that I use, but only for code cleanup and customizing code. Coda is hands down the best code editor I've ever seen for web work, but Dreamweaver beats it all over the place for tweaking the look and feel when you start working with the live view, especially in CC.
I hope this helps. As others have said, Dreamweaver is a good tool, but an effective, secure, efficient and innovative web site is more a matter of careful planning and collaboration than the tools used to write the code.