Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]
Dreamweaver 8 combines the industry's leading Web development tool with a world-class design and code editor. Add video easily, by snapping video content into place on the Web. Drag and drop Flash Video into Dreamweaver 8 to quickly incorporate video to websites and applications. Simplify your CSS -- understand the cascade of styles applied to content as well as quick access to making changes without having to navigate a lot of code through trial and error. Get started with XML, too: Simply point a web page to an XML file or a URL of an XML feed and Dreamweaver will introspect it to enable dragging and dropping the appropriate fields onto the page. Dreamweaver supports and guides users as their skills grow and web technologies evolve, facilitating easy and quick adoption of new technologies and methodologies. Coding toolbar, code collapse and workspace layouts for better workflow New tabbed document functions and starter pages Improved site synchronize and check in/check out ColdFusion MX 7 support, with tighter integration between Dreamweaver and ColdFusion Support for PHP5, including server behaviors & code hinting Add Flash Video to sites in a simple drag-and-drop process Track your work more effectively, with the notification and event logging tools in Macromedia Web Publishing System Updated reference content for XML, XSLT and XPath material, plus updated content for ASP and JSP sites and applications
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. A world-class design and code editor in a single tool, Dreamweaver 8 is designed for the most advanced web developers, as well as for the less experienced. 
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Easily collapse snippets of code so you can stay focused on the big picture. View larger. | Dreamweaver supports and guides users as their skills grow and web technologies evolve, facilitating easy and quick adoption of new technologies and methodologies. You don't need to be an advanced developer to take advantage of the many industry-leading features of Dreamweaver 8. Adding Flash Video, for instance, is a cinch. In fact, you can add Flash Video to any site with fewer than five clicks of a mouse. Simply point Dreamweaver to any Flash Video file, select the playback controls to surface on the page, and get rolling. The unified CSS panel provides a powerful and easy way to understand the cascade of styles applied to content, as well as quick access to making changes without having to navigate a lot of code through trial and error. Working with XML is also simplified considerably. And with access to over three million Dreamweaver developers, the Dreamweaver community can provide you with invaluable benefits, including the Macromedia Developer Center, developer certification programs, training and seminars, user forums, and independent community support sites. More than 800 free downloadable extensions are available through the Macromedia Dreamweaver Exchange. New and Enhanced Features New features and optimized workflows reduce the time required to complete common development tasks. Dreamweaver 8 does for XML and XSLT what Dreamweaver 1 did for HTML. Simply point any page to an XML file or a URL of an XML feed, and Dreamweaver will introspect it to enable dragging and dropping the appropriate fields onto the page. From there, pop into code view to work with improved code hinting support for XML and XSLT, and take advantage of the new XML and XSLT reference content. Dreamweaver 8 also takes CSS-based design to the next level. The new, unified CSS panel makes complex CSS simple. In fact, you can learn CSS by reviewing the consolidated view and visual representation of the cascade as it applies to content for quick access and power. For working with CSS for content position, the new CSS layout visualization provides design-time visual aids to quickly and easily review page structure. The styles rendering toolbar previews how pages work with different CSS media types. For greater control over design, Dreamweaver 8 also lets you zoom in on designs to de-bug complex layouts and review images. Use guides to accurately position content on pages to improve the accuracy between comps and finished product. And when you need to focus on a single piece of code, you can stay focused by selectively collapsing and expanding sections of code by selection or by tag with code collapse.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION] Reviews
It is easy to use and powerful. I am getting ready to upgrade again to the CS3 version soon. This one runs just fine on my new iMac with Leopard. I upgraded from a much earlier version.
Using it just for code editing is also great. I would suggest buying a suite that includes this one versus purchasing it. The application loads quickly with rare crashes, has standard and secure ftp support, database connectivity tools, and common web elements. This version comes with support with most of the web programming languages out there including xsl stylesheets. If you are familar with the Macromedia line of products then this one is not a surprise it's a good ide. solely.
I would have liked if the program had basic templates available to use, at least for the layout of the page. For an amateur in web design, Dreamweaver 8 helped me along without having to learn all the numerous coding that goes into creating a webpage. Perhaps it does and I just haven't been able to figure it out. It is hard to create fancy designs if you aren't a web design professional, so the page I've been working on thus far is pretty basic and not very flashy. Other than that, the software is very easy to learn and I enjoy using it.
If you want the best Web design software, get Dreamweaver. You can do a little or a lot, depending how much effort you want to put into learning it. When I say it is easy to use, I am talking about knowing how to use it and then using it correctly, of course. For Web design, this program is tops. Sure there are other products that will do the job, but you will not find one that does so much, is so easy to use, and has so much support available in terms of books and Web forums. Now that Adobe owns it, it will continue to get better. Face it.
(One example - while you upload your changed files to the web server in GoLive, you can't do anything else in the program. I'm an amateur at website design/building, so understand that I'm not very "deep" in Dreamweaver's abilities. After just 30 minutes or so of working with Dreamweaver to update my site, I'm already sure I've made the right decision. I have a long way to go in learning what it can do, but my first impressions of the product are excellent. However, I got the program to switch from Adobe GoLive CS2 which had many quirks, bugs, and frustrations. Single tasking.).
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