Is Adobe Muse a good option?

[Lael]

We work with a number of clients that need a small website.  Is Adobe Muse a good software for building solid, optimized websites?  Is Muse better then Dreamweaver?  Input please.

[matbennett]

Not used it myself, but Muse has a bit of a reputation for outputting truly horrendous source code. That is never the best start when building a site.  What I have seen of the output seemed to contain an awful lot of nested DIVs.

In itself that isn't a problem, but it really bloated the code which isn't great.

We used to use Dreamweaver a lot. That has a bit of a name for messy code too, but you can at least control that.  Out of the two I'd opt for Dreamweaver. Given the choice I'd prefer a decent text based IDE.