Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp

You don't need Dreamweaver to make CSS-based pages, what you need is to understand the basis of CSS.

What is nice about DW is the code-hinting, auto-close tags. But you need to understand how CSS works, Dreamweaver ain't gonna do it for you.

As for converting thousands of pages to CSS, I would suggest moving from static html pages to PHP-created ones with a templating system like Smarty which has caching abilities.