I cut my teeth using Dreamweaver for tripod and geocities sites way back in the last century and have fond memories of it. It was great for templating headers and footers before I discovered PHP, which I have less fond memories of, but that's another story.
With all the churn in certain areas of tech, it's easy to forget how much stays the same.
I was using Macromedia Fireworks MX from the early 2000's right through about 2013 to do graphics for sites I was building people on the side.
I used it while it got several version updates, Adobe took it over and updated it for five or six years, and then discontinued it.
Meanwhile I was still using the old version to make beer money.
I only quit using it because I finally admitted I kind of suck at graphic design. Besides, there doesn't seem to be much need for graphic design in much of the modern mobile-first, material design world anyway.
I bailed on the whole thing and have been sticking to back end at the day job these days. Things move at a slightly less hectic pace back here for me most of the time.
With all the churn in certain areas of tech, it's easy to forget how much stays the same.
I was using Macromedia Fireworks MX from the early 2000's right through about 2013 to do graphics for sites I was building people on the side.
I used it while it got several version updates, Adobe took it over and updated it for five or six years, and then discontinued it.
Meanwhile I was still using the old version to make beer money.
I only quit using it because I finally admitted I kind of suck at graphic design. Besides, there doesn't seem to be much need for graphic design in much of the modern mobile-first, material design world anyway.
I bailed on the whole thing and have been sticking to back end at the day job these days. Things move at a slightly less hectic pace back here for me most of the time.