Hello all,
First post. I am looking for a WYSIWYG HTML editor as I am used to Dreamweaver at work. I cant afford a CS suite at the moment and was looking at CC to bridge the gap for me. Does CC have any sort of a template .dwt system as dreamweaver has? If so is there a way to edit a .dwt in CC from an existing Dreamweaver site? If this has been answered before I appologise. I did search the forum but didn't find anything to directly answer my question. I would just like to know before I drop $50 on the software.

Thanks in advance.

At CoffeeCup you can have a WYSIWYG editor and a HTML Editor, but you can't have the cake AND eat it, meaning that you can't use them both at the same time. They both have a template system. CoffeeCup has their own template, or theme extension, cct, which is just in-house, the same, I guess, goes for the template format in DW. Maybe it is possible to take a DW template, open it in DW, do whatever needed to create a site out of it, save this locally, and then edit the various pages and style sheets in CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Anyway, you can download a free trial of the HTML Editor and give it a spin.

Inger, does the Editor let you save your own site creation as a template? I think that's what Dreamweaver has; if you come up with a design, you can choose to 'save as template' and then re-use it.
The CC Editor does come with some ready-made templates as well as some blank page layouts (single, 2 or 3 column, fixed width, elastic...)

No, but it lets you save various bits and pieces as 'snippets'. You can save both css and html as snippets.

That would be just as easy, it seems. Save your style sheets for layouts you use frequently and add in a few snippets here and there... So you're not building each new page from scratch.

Dustin – why don't you download the free trial and see what you think? It has all the features of the paid version, so take it for a spin

another thing to try is that there are a lot of file extensions that although they have some strange extensions you are able to change that extension to .zip and open it to see the files within it. This might allow you to utilize things within the dreamweaver system if it lets you change that file extension to .zip to open it.

Save a copy of the file to be sure you don't mess up the real one and try it on a copy to see if it works. Either it will open and allow you to see all the files within and extract them, or it will tell you it's an invalid file or corrupt which then tells you you cannot rename the dreamweaver theme files.

Just a thought.

Other than that I'm with Inger on the swapping. HTML Editor is not your best choice for WYSIWYG editing at all. If you have your heart set on using a visual editor I would suggest using Visual Site Designer to get your site rolling, and then use the HTML Editor to fine tune it. HTML Editor is not able to really accommodate doing visual and code editing at the same time. You pretty much have to choose one or the other and stick with it. Visual Site Designer has it's own file system also, and you cannot therefore import any already created sites into it, but it does a great job of setting you up Visually so you can then maintain using HTML Editor if that's your style. VSD is pretty much a one man show though so you can maintain sites just as easily with it, without needing an html editor at all. It does have an HTML Tool built in that allows you to add HTML scripts and java scripts and PHP scripts etc. so it's pretty robust.

Try taking them both for a trial spin before you sink your money in to see just how best to handle it for your needs. Good luck on it and enjoy playing with them