it hasnt been my experience that they expect you to know how to code or develop websites...it has, however, been my experience that web design knowledge in DW or flash is just one more skill that can make you slightly less expendable... and that seems worth it in itself to me...

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Thanks your rationale sells it

I learned Revit,Maya,Max,Acad, Form-Z, Rhino - I will learn DW too

learning how to code by hand with a text editor might be more valuable (besides, DW is really just a glorified text editor)

...why?

because DW doesn't always do what you want or create code that is clean/efficient. If you don't know what DW is doing for you, you won't be able to troubleshoot or do something that isn't already built-in.

I think what rehiggins might be getting at as well is the fact that learning dreamweaver and learning how to build/edit a basic website properly are two different things.

I bulit my own website in dw, learning css and basic html over the past few months basically only because I was unemployed and had nothing better to do. The time spent paid off in a job offer as it's easy to insert a link into an email and offer an invite to visit than attach a full portfolio and resume, etc.

That said, I had a professor at CSU who told the entire class that we'd be worthless to a firm if we couldn't build a website. Looking back, this could be one of the most ignorant comments I've heard in school. But maybe he was just alluding to the fact that building a *basic* website takes minimal technical and design competence.

Learning how to read and edit code imo is completely different way of thinking and requires a bit more effort, and in turn is more usefull, probably.

short answer: learning dw isnt something I would prioritize.