Dreamweaver impending nightmare
I’ve been a fan of Dreamweaver, the web development app from Macromedia, since I first picked up a license for version 1.2 many moons back. Whilst it is far from perfect (a crappy FTP engine and laughable CSS support spring immediately to mind) it is still leaps and bounds ahead of competing packages.
Like many fans of Dreamweaver I can’t help wonder what will happen to the package now that Adobe (of Photoshop fame) have bought out Macromedia. Such is my concern that Adobe are going to ruin the package that I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version now before they get a chance to screw with it too much.
Unfortunately those bright sparks at Adobe have already been at work on the website, which made the upgrade less than easy. The old Macromedia.com domain now just points to the painfully slow and frankly broken Adobe website. Wonderful: pages that take 20 seconds to load on an ADSL connection, dead links, remember me functions that don’t work and continually getting thrown back to the US store (which us Brit aren’t allowed to order from, as that would mean not getting ripped off) when following links from the UK store. What professionalism.
After 20 minutes of that crap I decided to post them some feedback and give up. Unfortunately you aren’t allowed to post feedback unless you live in the US as they require that you add your state.
I think that I now clearly understand how much Adobe value my business.
I don’t think that this ineptitude is limited to just the online store either. The download link on the flash player pages has been broken for weeks without any sign of being fixed - I guess we will have to wait for someone from the US to report the problem though.
