FREE: Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004 - NEW

I've hand-coded from the very early days when we got personal pc's and I had ideas to promote.

Here's the deal from me/an instructor in html/college degreed: You CANNOT learn enough about how html, flash, and css work. Oh, sure, you can use an abundance of "put a site together in 15 mins. using our sitebuilder" thing but it never really IS yours or a client's BECAUSE you're placing elements based on a 'cookie cutter' design.

So, yes, I don't really care what version, but to know Dreamweaver will not only get your placement of elements correct, your code will be correct so Google search engines don't boot you out.

Using other 'speedy' editors make for a lot of extra code that is not only unnecessary, but slows the load time of a site/page.

You WILL have an enhanced learning experience with using Dreamweaver because it will 'catch you' with errors rather than have the search engine just boot your site out or lower it on the popularity page(s).

Personally, I own ALL versions of Dreamweaver and my personal favorite is 4. I didn't see that much of a difference between the ones that came after and 4 is SO STABLE. I had issues when I got into later editions and really kicked myself: just stay with what you KNOW what works for you because "newer" doesn't always mean "better."