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Morpheous.... touche! Does anybody even use cold fusion?!!! J/K.

So, clean up your code after the initial design is done. You shouldn't even be using the properties bar! Do everything with CSS! Even if DW inserts a bit of bad code, it's easy to clean up. I can't name any better software than DW in regards to the kind of code it produces. Sure, notepad will give you perfect code! But it'll take you twice or three times as long to write it. Not to mention the new DW has excellent CSS support. IMHO the best feature of the latest version.

Which Dreamweaver are you using and what do you mean by invalid code? The new DW will even convert your nasty @$$ code into xhtml compliant code. The only thing I wish DW had is auto-complete for PHP built in. I've been a loyal user of DW for three years and have seen them really progress over the years. MX2004 is excellent software. If you need to get a website quick and don't know what you're doing, use the design window even if it does make nasty code. After the design is done, go into the code window and analyze the tags. Learn what they do. After a while, you should be able to type all of your stuff from scratch. One negative about writing your code by hand in a text editor: no auto-complete. This is a wicked feature in DW and will drastically cut your development times once you know the basics of html. The new version also has great CSS support as well as limited PHP support. Notebook has neither.

If you use the code window, there's no need to go Flintstone style and use notepad. The new Dreamweaver does an excellent job making valid xhtml. Hit F12 anytime you want to preview your page in your browser.

Dreamweaver MX2004 has a TON of support for PHP and CSS. The latest version is positively the best. Next, hopefully they'll build in some sql support. I've been doing PHP using Dreamweaver for about 3 years. Dreamweaver has little support for making php code, but it has good methods for letting you know if you've made a syntax error in your code. What do most of you use for PHP coding. Do any of you use any of the Zend products?