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Is Dreamweaver right for manufacturers?

Dreamweaver isn't really a CMS, it's Adobe's largely retired web design tool, and the sites still carrying its fingerprints are hand-coded relics. They're the oldest, most neglected, least secure corner of the industrial web.

Who Chooses It

Dreamweaver powers 181 of the 25,000+ industrial websites we track, ranking 14th of 60 platforms, with a typical site size of around 25 pages.

Nobody chooses Dreamweaver today. It's a tool that spits out static HTML, hardly a management system at all, and the manufacturers behind these sites are small fabrication and parts shops that stood their website up a decade or more ago and moved on. There's no catalog, no content strategy, nothing multilingual – just a handful of fixed pages saying what the shop does and how to reach it, exactly as they were typed.

Their age shows in the data. More than half of these sites still don't use the basic padlock of HTTPS, and better than half earn a failing security grade, the worst profile of any platform we track. Over 70% have no sitemap and leave almost no impression for search engines. They aren't badly built so much as abandoned. If your site is one of them, treat this index as a time capsule and a nudge to build something new for the modern web.

At a Glance

  • Total sites
    181
  • CMS rank
    14 of 60
  • Dominant role
    Contract Manufacturing 36%
  • Typical scale
    23 pages
  • Top sector
    Fabricated Metal
How It Compares

A snapshot of Dreamweaver industrial websites based on what's been built, not necessarily what the CMS can do.

  • ScaleBrochure
  • CommerceBlended
  • FootprintSingle-market
  • PublishingStatic
  • SecurityNeglected

The figures on this page come from Industrial Site Design's latest automated scan of the industrial websites we track, last updated . How we measure

Industrial Sites on Dreamweaver

Industrial Site Design tracks 181 websites built on Dreamweaver.