pros: they are easy to use and visual cons: they usually generate stupid code which doesn't work with all browsers and is needlessly complicated, a common thing is to see a page which has had the font declared on every line, like: <p><font face="verdana, ariel, sans-serif" size="2">line one</font</p> <p><font face="verdana, ariel, sans-serif" size="2">line two</font</p> <p><font face="verdana, ariel, sans-serif" size="2">line three</font</p> <p><font face="verdana, ariel, sans-serif" size="2">line four</font</p> though dreamweaver is getting a better with the ole CSS, it's still not as powerfull as just learning how to use html and css and doing it in a simple text editor (imo) edit: if you are going to use anything, use Dreamweaver.