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I think of dreamweaver more as a wysiwyg tool than a static site generator. Although you can obviously generate static sites with it, I don't think it really fi

I think of dreamweaver more as a wysiwyg tool than a static site generator. Although you can obviously generate static sites with it, I don't think it really fits the modern workflows I would associate with static site generators.

WorldMaker 7y ago
Dreamweaver and FrontPage both had very nascent/early ideas towards Content Management, they weren't "just" WYSIWYG tools towards the end. Given how much work goes into making static site generators WYSIWYG when building content (such as tools like Netlify CMS), the "ideal" is probably somewhere in the middle. Had PHP hosting not got so cheap so quickly and subsequently early PHP CMSes become so common, it's possible there was an alternate universe where Dreamweaver or FrontPage continued to evolve into really interesting static site generating Content Management Systems.