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I'm still using Dreamweaver 8. I have to run it under Wine on Linux, but I have a permanent license, and it works fine. That does most of the drudge work. Sometimes I'll hand code some Javascript.

I wish there was a modern version of Dreamweaver that didn't phone home, didn't use "cloud", and didn't require endless payments.

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I've not tried this for any adobe products, but you could try running them in a locked down environment (container, vm, whatever) and don't allow network access.

Adobe Creative Cloud apps stop working after a while if they can’t phone home. Adobe Creative Suite apps do not.

“After Adobe Systems' acquisition of Macromedia in December 2005, Dreamweaver 8 was added to Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 and was later succeeded by Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.“ [1] (Replacing Adobe GoLive, good riddance)

So you could use up to Dreamweaver CS6 with just a serial number (usually requiring one-time internet activation), but anything newer requires regular internet access.

[1] https://macromedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macromedia_Dreamweaver_8

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