Disable Synchronization Information in the site preferences. This SERIOUSLY improved the lagging menus scrolling at the speed of molasses on a cold winters day. The dog ass slow pings and pongs back and forth from the server will be eliminated too.

If you are having difficulty connecting to FTP with a Mac, it is usually the built-in Mac Firewall which Dreamweaver cannot negotiate properly….. yet another flaw. Turn off your Mac software firewall and it will connect instantly.

I code in .NET so use Visual Studio (which I love) but recently I went freelance so knew I would have to get to grips with Dreamweaver and to say I felt like I’d gone back through a time warp would be an understatement, and I was using CS3 which is the current version at the time of writing this.

I haven’t used basic input controls and SSI etc in eons but the books I read used those. Then when I covered its dynamic features I was unhappy to see its support for ASP.NET and JSP to be practically non-existent, and to see the code for its built in features (such as database work) using classic ASP and PHP to be convoluted, inefficient, insecure, out of date, and non-scalable. No OO programming in sight. I thought that Dreamweaver had moved on but it seems not.

I do wish designers would stop trying to be developers as it always leaves such a mess as they live in the past.

So why Adobe doesnt make the same for coldfusion? Flex and Coldfusion are quite similar in the syntax (you can have XML/MXML objects or pure script)