I hate the trend toward accounts and cloud based computing.
I've long used Adobe Dreamweaver 8 for web design. But now you must subscribe to Adobe to use its products, and renew your subscription every year if you want to keep using it.
When I pay for a program, I want to own it. And I want a copy of it, preferably on DVD.
Customers purchase a license to run software -- only the manufacturer of the software "owns" it. This is very different from purchasing a car or a shovel or a loaf of bread -- those you "own".
But long ago in the 1970's Bill Gates famously laid out the master plan for software distribution. What you purchased was not the product, but a license to run the product. You can never own a commercial software product (unless you developed it or bought the company that did).
As to having a DVD -- download an installer for the software and burn it to a DVD. Very little software is available on CD/DVD these days, but you can make your own backup copy, assuming the EULA permits it.
I agree with you. If I paid for it I Own it without renewing every year. Also dislike having to register with steam in order to use a software. Internet is fine but not that reliable. Outages all the time.
Same here. I’ll find a purchasable version of software before I rent it.
#5 Get HTMLPad https://www.htmlpad.net
It is free to try and just $40 to buy. Once you create your layouts you can reuse them so you do not have to start from scratch.
Open a webpage you have then click on the Vertical Page tab at the bottom to view it.
On the left side you have the code or you can move it to the righside, you can resize the panels by dragging. You type in the code section and it appears right away in the Vertical or Horizontal view. You can have many tabs open.
I switched this year as Dreamweaver was to complicated and other choices were as well. Once I learn some Flex and Grid I was able to create pages that can be viewed on a cell phone or tablet or big monitor. I already knew enough css and html.