>>>I downloaded the Dreamweaver trial and that convinced me.. I recoupedwhatever I'd have saved in the purchase price in a few hours.
>>>You do need to buy a book for DW, however and spend several hours learning it.
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>>Thank you. I will consider downloading/buying the DW.
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>I once had a DW, some 4.x version IIRC, and it was fine, specially as a learning tool, because its property dialogs had a lot of (beginnings of) intellisense, i.e. it knew all the possible values for any option I could think of.
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>It's just that over time my pages were getting more complicated, and the navigation between stylesheets and page became a bit too tedious. And I remember why I eventually abandoned it and went for pure text - it would make all the links absolute file links, with locations on my disk. Maybe it did it to make previewing easy, but then it meant that it also wanted the publishing rights (i.e. that it's connecting to the website, uploading the pages etc), which didn't sit too well with what I do (write templates that I then merge in VFP and FTP, from VFP again using Chilkat), so I used it less and less. Eventually I upgraded the Windowses to something that wouldn't run DW4.0, and didn't bother to see why it wouldn't.

I was taking a Javascript class over the summer and the computers in the lab all had DW; and they worked fine. I just don't remember the version number they were using. It's just that in my mind DW was always an 'expensive' product (although I never did check the price). You see, I already downloaded VS 2012 which probably has most of what I need (and I agree with you that WYSIWYG is not real and not important). But the VS 2012 does not like something in my computer and keeps giving me BSOD. So I need the HTML editor just until I either fix my computer or buy a new one.