I don’t know if this helps but the reason I like to use DW for wordpress is for the inspect mode so I can alter the CSS, that is so handy. Also for creating a child theme, function.php, header.php, etc.. for a child theme. I don’t know how many 12hour chunks I’ve taken off my life trying to figure out the whole hosting, remote server, integration with DW, fatcow(hosting), Godaddy, connecting the database, error connecting to database, ooooh!! enter your hosting db info into the config file, ya like that works. Anyway, that connection problem was the database side of this whole equation. The way I deal with it now is that anything I have to do with the database, post, page, user, form, field etc… I just do it from the live control panel in wordpress on my live site, doing that of course puts everything in the proper database. Anything that has to do with css or files I can do in dreamweaver and then upload to my ftp. like a regular site. So in conclusion since WP separates stucture(use DW) from content(database/use wordpress). NOTE: I’d pay $300.00 a month for Lynda.com instead of a year. (well maybe not that much) But there is no other teaching tool out there like that.
