Comments on: Adobe Kills Creative Suite, Demands Monthly Subscription https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Thu, 14 May 2026 11:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/#comment-36766 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:53:09 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=5087#comment-36766 I highly recommend using a text editor like Sublime Text, TextWrangler, Notepad++, Coda, vim or something similar. Dreamweaver is major overkill if you’re not using the visual editor, which is a bad idea in itself. Even in the ’90s, it was frowned upon.

Speaking as someone who has made plenty of themes for blogs (including this one) from scratch, there is plenty of market for quality tools for wrangling HTML/CSS or scripting languages. Dreamweaver just really isn’t a tool I would recommend for doing that. A good syntax-highlighting text editor and a browser is all you need.

]]> By: Laura https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/#comment-36719 Wed, 29 May 2013 17:01:50 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=5087#comment-36719 DreamWeaver and the other site building software got a bit left behind when people decided to stop building sites and run a weblog instead. Weblog software means you don’t really need an HTML editor any more.

What do you have against Dreamweaver? It’s funny because I used to hear so many people bashing MS FrontPage when I used that for HTML coding. At that time Dreamweaver was the hero, MSFP the bad guy.

I do so little HTML now that it is simple enough to just type it into a text editor myself.

]]> By: Laura https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/#comment-36718 Wed, 29 May 2013 16:56:55 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=5087#comment-36718 A greedy move on their part. I think this is trying to catch the people who don’t upgrade every time Adobe scratches their ear. I still use my very old MS FrontPage software for making simple images. I like not having to take time to deal with software changes. If it works, it works. If Adobe had come out with something I could see myself adding to my budget I would have bought their Suite. At this rate I never will. I’m not a big graphic making professional though. I just want something I can DIY for my own web graphics. If I want to try something new I will go with Gimp.

]]> By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/#comment-36395 Thu, 09 May 2013 22:38:30 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=5087#comment-36395 Indeed it is. I pretty much only use Photoshop myself (I just can’t learn to like GIMP, and Pixelmator just isn’t as capable). Most of their software has decent competitors.

Apple’s Final Cut Pro is on the same level as Premier, and cheaper to boot. (Then there are tons of other consumer-level alternatives, from companies like Avid, Sony, Roxio, Pinnacle, etc.) After Effects is harder to find an adequate replacement for, though.

As for Dreamweaver…do people actually still use Dreamweaver? I hope not.

]]> By: Rolando https://www.webmaster-source.com/2013/05/08/adobe-kills-creative-suite-demands-monthly-subscription/#comment-36387 Thu, 09 May 2013 12:18:20 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=5087#comment-36387 what a huge risk Adobe is taking, personally I don’t like their new pricing model. There are good alternatives to come up with your own creative suite for cheap http://bit.ly/101Mt88

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