Do you use Dreamweaver?
Dreamweaver is just a tool. It would be like asking if you could write a grammatically correct sentence in Microsoft Word. Can you write that sentence using another tool? Yes. Can you build a website without Dreamweaver? Most definitely.
Usually I don’t get asked this question because the current site was built with Dreamweaver, usually I get asked this question because people have heard of the software and that’s their only reference point for website design.
Dreamweaver is simply a WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get.”
What Dreamweaver can’t do is work well with WordPress or Drupal theming. I stopped using WYSIWYG editors when I started really using php and css because, at that time, the editors weren’t up to par with that technology. They’re better now but they aren’t perfect. The editors still produce bad code on occasion so even if someone is working with the software they should still understand the underlying code. Once you learn to read more code you usually are faster without WYSIWYG editors.
So what do I usually use in place of Dreamweaver? As of November 10, 2011: A combination of firebug, web developer toolkit, textwrangler, and cssedit.