obviously everyone is entitled to there opinion. But i make money creating web sites without using dreamweaver. It all depends on the user, if your confident enough that you can code completely by hand then i suggest this approach as being the definitive answer. Having dreamweaver weave its magic solutions for me doesnt appeal to me, plus the horrendous amount of bulk code it adds to your project when using the automated methods. This may not appear on small projects but when you start to undertake something a little bigger there is a consierable amount of data being stored which is useless. But as i said everyone to there own.