Hello B,
I kinda got stuck with it, and one of our programmers knows the program extremely well. Unfortunately though, we made plans to do web development in DW CS3 with him, and now he won't be able to meet the committment, so I have to learn it and do the work myself. I would prefer to use a tool that supports VB script, but I know of none. Is that why you like VWD so much?
I called our web hosting service the other day, and the rep told me that the learning curve is about 2 years for DW.
He said...GOOD LUCK!
I can certainly use design tools with this thing, but writing PHP or HTML is out of the question for me for sure. I simply do not know it. The one thing I can say for sure though is that it is like Excel a whole lot, where you can make objects, or write code with a split (design/code) window, and see the page update as your are making progress. That's a real helpful tool!