Sorry it took so long to answer guys, I just got home last night and got computer setup and did a few posts and went to bed lol. Am all setup now though
I see Brian, and yes that's what I would suggest also with something of that size. If it were not such a huge setup I could see you using the HTML Editor to input and create the pages of it though. Although the editors (including DW and the rest) won't allow you to just copy an entire thing like an ebook, you can copy and paste specific text to be placed within the tags which isn't too hard to do. Then just place a graphic if you have any in the ebook. It's not as hard as it sounds, but takes a bit of time. PDF sounds like the way to go for this project though, and you can make it so it will open automatically, or download depending on the person's browser preferences of course.
I would not purchase DW for this minimal task (minimal not as in difficulty, but as in only 1 thing you're trying to do rather than a full site)
To be honest, at the price of DW, I would take a little time and just learn a little here and there about HTML as you can and save yourself the money. Do keep in mind that CC products have no upgrade fees ever, and you can bet that DW and the rest all have steep upgrade fees yearly. It would maybe take a little time, but it's really not that hard to learn, and you truly do not have to remember every little detail because anytime you need to know something you can just google it and there's a lot of places to find the code you need, or you can ask in the forums here and most of the time someone knows how to do what you're trying to do. Although web building isn't a major science, it does take a bit of time to get the basics, but once you have that you can build on that as you go.
If you want to do that, just hollar and we can point you to some really good tutorials and help sites to see how it all works
Hence I recommend the HTML builder for it's versatility and truly you're not missing much from DW other than Integration of it with their products, which HTML Editor does with CC Products to a degree also. I used DW MX version for many years, and there's only a couple features that I miss from it, and none are enough to make me go back and pay the price to upgrade anymore.
And yes, what Inger says is most definitely true, with Visual Site Designer you cannot just import things into it or copy and paste chunks of data such as you were trying to do, you do need to start a site from scratch and build on with it. But in the end it would most likely be the easier way to go.
P.S. One thing no one touched on which I guess we all missed lol, was what DW does vs. HTML Editor. Basically they are the same thing, text editors for HTML Code. The major difference between DW and CCHE for me (maybe other things for others) is that you can edit in code or visual at the same time having both open and they are text and graphic sensitive (we're hoping someday that CC will hear our prayers on this). This means you can click on one area in the code and it will highlight the visual area that coincides with that code so you can edit it in either code or visual areas. This is the main feature I miss from DW.
CCHE has a visual editor but to be honest it's not all that great, and it's not click sensative, you cannot really swap between them and use both as one changes the code from the other so you're bound to one way or the other. CCHE does have a visual viewer though which helps a lot. Although you cannot "edit" it in the visual area, you are able to see what changes you're making while using the code editor so it's still pretty nice.
In the end though, both programs are basically the same thing, just one has more features than the other, and should for the money they want you to pay for DW. I guess I just don't think those features are worth the cost and I see nothing that CCHE cannot do in the end that DW can for building sites.
