Is Dreamweaver C6, C5 a good text editor to learn?

Dreamweaver is ok. It's also ok to use. It has lots of great tools too. But the issue I have with it is the dependence people form with it. I remember I used to use it all the time when I first started. The College I went to required we use it so I did. So I used the icons and created forms with a click of a button. I edited things easily and was able to create pages fast. But the trade off is that it's all bloated coding. It adds extra stuff to the code and doesn't name things correctly.

Things like sublime text force you to learn how to code correctly. It also lets you know how your code works since your not dependent on a "what you see is what you get" screen. Can you code normally in Dreamweaver yes but I prefer to use software that focuses on what I want it to do. Sublime lets me add what I want and disable it when I want to. I can also customize it to my hearts desire.

In the end it's just up to you and what you like. If you like DW they keep using it. But the rest of use will use Sublime Text :)

I started off on Dreamweaver and once mastered its an awesome tool, however i never used half the features like design view and all the help it gives you in building things fast. I just typed out the html, css and jquery and used the FTP. Then i was introduced to Sublime Text and have never looked back since, the big thing for me was load time Dreamweaver was slow to load and sublime is almost instant, although sublime won't manage your files like DW. I love the minimal look, themes and emmet which is a wicked time saver i could type things like brad15px press ctrl e and boom it changes to border-radius: 15px; you get the idea. Also has package manager and many more. Once i got used to it i removed DW CS6 and stuck with sublime.

Hope this helps

I don't care what is the opinion on Dreamweaver but Dreamweaver CS6 is the most powerful HTML and CSS editor out there. Yes using it as a wysiwyg is a bad practice but im talking only about dreamweaver as html\css editor. But try to be comfortable with other text editor as well like sublime text or coda 2 for mac.

I use Dreamweaver all day everyday. I've tried all the other editors and none of them have the file management that Dreamweaver has. I've NEVER used anything like form builder or animation builder that DW has. I just use it as an editor because it has great WordPress code hints from a plugin and great file management.

It has inbuilt W3 validation and FTP, super powerful tools. Only gripe is not been able to have two windows so I could have two full screen docs split across 2 monitors.

Meu workflow perfeito é SublimeText3 + SFTP =)

You can actually FTP with Sublime Text. I don't use this as I just use git with tower and upload updates to the website I am working on. But check this out and it might just have made Sublime Text even better for some of you. There is also a WordPress autocomplete. The thing you have to remember about Sublime is that the add ons or plugs are created by the community. So there is always a steady flow of new things that fill in the voids that are missing from the software. That is what makes Sublime Text so good in my opinion!

Sublime SFTP

WordPress and PHP Autocomplete

I started with Dreamweaver, later moved to Notepad++, and today I use Sublime Text. I prefer Sublime Text, but I do like some of the features of Dreamweaver like split screen and preview mode.

Dreamweaver is a bit of a joke in the industry as far as I'm aware, you're better off going for Sublime Text/Coda/Espresso on a Mac or Visual Studio on a PC