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I have never used Dreamweaver but I believe that it is quite like Nvu and Quanta in KDE. Also, you might want to check out OpenOffice. There is also Bluefish and ... and ... if you want a WYSIWYG web editor, do give Nvu a try.
Good luck.
I do not wish to offend NVU or Quanta Plus fans, but they are at best a shadow of Dreamweaver. I say this in case you use Dreamweaver professionally. They are decent programs for personal use though, and about as good as you can get presently to run native in Linux. Still, I would compare them more closely to the Windows program HomeSite (if you are familiar with that one) than Dreamweaver.
As an option, some of the older versions of Dreamweaver (up to MX) run in CrossOver Office. That may satisfy your needs.
Incidentally, should you wish to try Quanta Plus, I recall at least some versions also require installing tidy (HTML syntax checking), kompare (compares file content), GnuPG (resource signing and validating), KFileReplace (a search and replace tool), and Cervisia (CVS version control plug in) to have the full functionality.
I do not wish to offend Dreamweaver fans, but using it is at best a dirty kludge next to writing your html and css by hand
I suspect that you do not do it for a living--or you are "on the clock" and just have to show up to get paid. Hand coding is like swimming across a lake. Using a software program like Dreamweaver is like using a boat to cross the lake. Similarly, I would not attempt to use KWrite to produce a contract or even a fax when I had OpenOffice Writer available for use instead. Incidentally, in case you have not used Dreamweaver, you can use the WYSIWYG tools to set up the page and then alter the code by hand to get things just right. I think it is fair to say that you cannot fully escape hand coding, but it is nice to get rid of most of it.
I am not trying to flame or be an ass, I just had to throw in my 2 cents. Back in my Windows days I used Dreamweaver a bit and found it just got in my way. I really do prefer to code by hand...just more satisfying I guess.
I understand your viewpoint, as I was a "late" convert to Dreamweaver myself. (I started with their version 3, which came out around 2000.) Like any other application, you need to learn "it's" way of doing things, and I liked hand coding since I was good at it--well, reasonably good anyway. Prior to that, I used HomeSite, which was (and is) a superb program for the perfectionist, but a poor one for someone who gets paid for productivity. What finally sold me on Dreamweaver was the fact that it did not mess with any special code I put in pages or change the way I structured the page. By comparison, other WYSIWYG products like Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe GoLive will rewrite portions of every page. Frankly, I do not understand how such products stay on the market. Uh, make that -->
1. Book recommendation:
Regardless of what tool you use, you'll still probably want to know how to code your own HTML and CSS.
This book is clearly written, very practical ... and *extremely* helpful. Whether you've been hand-coding HTML for ten years (like me ;-)), or whether you're a pure beginner. In fact, I liked it precisely because it gave me a fresh, XHTML-conformant, perspective on stuff I *thought* I knew pretty well:
2. Frameworks recommendation:
At the other end of the spectrum - where you don't necessarily have to do *any* HTML coding whatsoever, you might be interested in "Mambo":
well, I'm totally siding with Cogar on this one; there really isn't anything like Dreamweaver.
mesh2005, if you're really inclined to use Dreamweaver, I suggest installing WINE (http://www.winehq.org) and then installing Dreamweaver through WINE by typing:
Code:
$ wine 'setup.exe'
replace setup.exe with the file name of the Win32 installer EXE.
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Incidentally, in case you have not used Dreamweaver, you can use the WYSIWYG tools to set up the page and then alter the code by hand to get things just right. I think it is fair to say that you cannot fully escape hand coding, but it is nice to get rid of most of it. 
