;-) of course that is just my wee opinion.
I use dreamweaver MX 2004 for my front end coding and it is great. The days of dreamweaver mangling the code you had carefully written are long over. Now it comes with built in code validators, html tidy, great code sense, and other handy features like the ability to specify browser audience and then let Dw point out all the bits that are incompatible with certain browsers!
Beyond that there arealso loads of other features, most of which I never use. Like photoshop though DW is just getting better and better, it is beginning to seem there is always some new thing you can do with it.
As far as generating javascript goes DW is good for robot code, but nothing will beat a well program script by a human.
Most of my work as a web designer sees me in the code view, but I have more recently begun using the design view for something else in my ID/IA role... fast prototyping... If I want to whip up a site in minutes I can just use the design view . The code isn't pretty, but it isn't too bad either and for fast prototypes they only need to work in one place for like quick test etc...
So yes... I reckon DW is worth the price!
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