For more diaries and tips on development visit Edward's Web Developer Site . We use it too. Last week I mentioned how Macromedia's graphics software Fireworks 3 was made especially for web developers. I just learned Dreamweaver in exactly 13 days using the book Dreamweaver 3 Bible by Joseph Lowery. With Dreamweaver 3, mouseover graphics are done in clicks.
Image maps are click and drag.
Cross-browser layering is magically simple. If you still use frames, Dreamweaver supports them thoroughly, making multiple window updates just clicks away. After the chapter on layers, I was able to use use Dreamweaver to give my personal website a 30-minute multimedia upgrade with rollover graphics and a flying message when users click on the button. It would have taken hours to program that code for the mouse-up, animated layer trick. Publishing to a sub-directory on your LAN is also supported.