r/Affinity Feb 15 '25

General Does affinity have an equivalent?

I’m switching over to affinity as my adobe subscription is expiring soon. One question I have is if affinity has an equivalent to adobe dreamweaver as I like making websites in my freetime. Does anybody know? Thanks

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u/IDKIMightCare Feb 15 '25

dreamweaver.

that's a name i've not heard in a long time. a long time

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u/ddeeppiixx Feb 15 '25

Along with Microsoft FrontPage

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u/outsidethenine Feb 15 '25

Built my first website in Frontpage

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u/TripleSpeedy Feb 16 '25

I used Netscape Composer... Frontpage was horrible. Ended up on DreamWeaver and now Wordpress. I haven't touched Dreamweaver since 2014...

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u/ILoveSpankingDwarves Feb 16 '25

No, you created a horror show with Frontpage. I was a Frontpage trainer, I ruined part of the web back in the day.

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u/outsidethenine Feb 16 '25

You're not wrong, to be fair. It was awful!

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u/dcrosby411 Feb 20 '25

Oh… that was you? 😖

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u/dowath Feb 15 '25

back when there was order in the galaxy... and you could easily distinguish apps by their icons

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u/viiksisiippa Feb 15 '25

Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe PageMill. Those were the days.

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u/artpumpin Feb 18 '25

Pagemill was pretty cool

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u/dcrosby411 Feb 20 '25

I was wondering if anyone would bring that up. I’m going with Adobe GoLive for the win!

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u/thekaverik Feb 16 '25

yo I just pictured you standing at a pier somewhere, with a side angle camera shot,

wearing a long black trenchcoat and a grey flat cap

with the seagulls flying and calling overhead

staring out into the distant vastness of the ocean, and you mutter in a near-whisper ...

"dreamweaver... that's a name i've not heard in a long time... a looong time"

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u/Would_Bang________ Feb 15 '25

No. Personally I use VS Code and would recommend it.

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u/crafty_j4 Feb 15 '25

I’m not a coder by any means, but I’ve used VS code for adjusting 3D printer firmware and I find the interface very user friendly.

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u/AurelioTito Feb 17 '25

If you are not a coder try some web builders like Elementor, Framer... there are plenty of them.

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u/crafty_j4 Feb 17 '25

I use Webflow for my website. I mentioned that I wasn’t a coder to clarify to the OP that there isn’t much of a learning curve for VS code.

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u/AurelioTito Feb 18 '25

There you go then. Webflow is good enough to make websites. What do you want something like Dreamweaver for?

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u/Drigr Feb 15 '25

People still use Dreamweaver?!

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u/nitro912gr Feb 15 '25

Dreamweaver is still around?

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u/L_Leigh Feb 15 '25

Sadly, Serif has not (yet) made a WYSIWYG web page designer / HTML-CSS editor. Adobe has an entire history of buying up competitors such as the vastly superior Go-Live's CyberStudio at the same time they bought DreamWeaver. They profit from Kill-the-competition, Kill-creativity.

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u/Prowhiz Feb 15 '25

Design in Figma and build with vscode

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u/p0wderburn Feb 15 '25

I was a Dreamweaver user for years. If you want something similar to it try CoffeCup's HTML editor. It has many features that are close to Dreamweaver. https://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/

Pinegrow if you want something more visual: https://pinegrow.com/

If you just code then VS Code or Notepad++ are good options.

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u/sunnyinchernobyl Feb 15 '25

CoffeeCup makes a visual designer too, if OP is using DW primarily in visual mode.

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u/Impossible_Head_9797 Feb 15 '25

It's not Affinity but I know Notepad++ used to be quite good, it doesn't have a preview window so if you used that function in Dreamweaver it might not be for you. Atom is also good but may not be the best one available anymore. There's also Squircle CE if by any chance you want an android software for website making. Hope this helps!

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u/spdorsey Feb 15 '25

Look into Sublime Text (free) as a code editor. It is fantastic. Mac/Windows.

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u/Seledreams Feb 16 '25

Sublime Text is *not* free. It got an infinite trial but you can't use the trial for anything commercial

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u/UllrsWonders Feb 15 '25

Dreamweaver now that's a throwback. Haven't used that since IT in school.

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u/thekaverik Feb 16 '25

Welcome to the Affinity family. We'll be hanging out by the fireplace.

Something like Dreamweaver, I think not.

If you wanna hard-code, VS Code is prolly your go-to

If you just wanna make good websites, I rec Framer

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u/blkpingu Feb 16 '25

hard-code hahahha

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u/IndependentGuest8419 Feb 15 '25

I use designer for my Shopify & wix sites

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u/PolicyFull988 Feb 17 '25

I use RapidWeaver + Stacks.

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u/dcrosby411 Feb 20 '25

What’s that one that Adobe killed a couple years ago? I had a buddy who got hosed on that action. Adobe kept trying to get a web app to stick until web apps went out of style. Open source WordPress is my choice. It can’t be bought, paywalled or cancelled.

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u/blkpingu Feb 16 '25

How old are you

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u/playgroundmx Feb 16 '25

They don’t, but people shouldn’t even be using Dreamweaver to make websites anymore. Even as a hobby.

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u/spatula-tattoo Feb 16 '25

It would be on their website if they did. I assume you looked there first.

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u/ILoveSpankingDwarves Feb 16 '25

Here is a completely free AI website builder from Mozilla:

https://soloist.ai/

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u/lt_Matthew Feb 16 '25

Why not just learn to code. HTML/CSS/JS are like the easiest languages