I find Fireworks great for putting together website designs/layouts quickly. Initially I didn't see the point of it when you can use other apps to do the same things but it really is good once you get used to it and it doesn't take too long if your familiar with apps like Photoshop, PaintShop Pro etc. Illustrator is a different ball game, for me at least
Speaking of Dreamweaver and php does anyone know if it's possible to select a section of html and format it automatically for php output? ie. Escaping quotes etc. without having to manually add each back slash?