Dreamweaver dying?
What websites are today
In an interesting post here, author Tom Arah argues that because more and more new (and revamped) sites are blogs or other CMS (Content Management System) like Drupal, then applications like Dreamweaver are needed less and less.
How we manage content
In the end, content is king, as the saying goes, and blogs and CMS allow for the easiest way to manage content: easy to expand, to add, to make searchable — all done by the content provider.
I certainly think that this is true. Many of the “pre 2.0″ sites are simply adding a blog component to them, such as WordPress. I still do use Dreamweaver CS4 myself, but at the same time, more and more I find myself editing the CSS of a blog template.
Of course, even THIS site use to be static HTML.
What Does this Mean?
What this means is that more and more, people will be focusing on content: creating and editing content, getting it online to blogs, social media sites like Flickr, YouTube or Facebook.
I think it’s safe to say that as the web gets more crowded with content, there will probably be new, innovative ways to find, aggregate and make sense of all that content.
It only remains to discover them.
