Using Office Publisher 2007

You will never need Dreamweaver if you only plan to build one simple website without newest features and technology. I am a web developer and i have made 3 complete web applications so far, and you know what i use? Notepad.

You can use Publisher (and Word) to create web pages but the HTML code it produces tends to be unnecessarily complicated and leads to slow loading websites. If you imported the HTML files created by Publisher into Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver would certainly help with tidying up and rationalising them but you might still have to spend many hours correcting the problems which Publisher caused. Publisher relies heavily on frames for its formatting (comparable to the old 'scissors and glue pot' method of laying out a page for print, where each block of text, image &c is on a separate piece of paper or film and is stuck in place to give the final layout). When this is translated to HTML, it results in some rather complex code which contains a lot of redundancy and is quite difficult to work with in something like Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver itself is a very powerful package, of course, but has a steep learning curve. I used to be very familiar with MS Office (now, I think, I can only claim to be 'quite familiar') and found Publisher fairly easy to work with. When I tried to transfer my skills to Dreamweaver, however, I found that the concept was so different that I needed to 'unlearn' many things and needed to start again from scratch (which I didn't really have the time or inclination to do at that point).