3. INTRODUCTION
Dreamweaver remains one of the most popular professional web design
programs available. It offers a lot of power and flexibility for both
designers and developers. There are a lot of features, which can make it
intimidating, but in general, it is easy to pick up and start using and the
advanced features make it possible to go from beginning web designer to
professional in a very short period of time. Adobe Dreamweaver is a
proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems.
Dreamweaver was created by Macromedia in 1997,[1] and was
maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in
2005.[2]
4. Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG editor and code editor for Windows and
Macintosh. You can use it to write HTML, CSS, JSP, XML, PHP, JavaScript, and
more. It can read WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal templates and it includes a
grid system to do grid-based responsive layouts for three different device
sizes at once. Plus, Dreamweaver offers a lot of tools for doing mobile web
development including creating native apps for iOS and Android devices.
Adobe acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver
subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards.
Recent versions have improved support for Web technologies such as CSS,
JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks
including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB),
ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.[
5. FEATURES
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design and development application that
provides a visual WYSIWYG editor (colloquially referred to as the Design view)
and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code
completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features such as
real-time syntax checking and code introspection for generating code hints to
assist the user in writing code.[4] The Design view facilitates rapid layout design
and code generation as it allows users to create and manipulate the layout of
HTML elements. Dreamweaver features an integrated browser for previewing
developed webpages in the program's own preview pane in addition to
allowing content to be open in locally installed web browsers. It provides
transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of
text or code by search terms or regular expressions across the entire site, and a
templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout
across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. The behaviors panel
also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and
integration with Adobe's Spry Ajax framework offers access to dynamically-
generated content and interfaces.
6. Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core
functionality of the application, which web developers can write (largely
in HTML and JavaScript). Dreamweaver is supported by extension
developers who make commercial and free extensions available.
Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads
them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV.
Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion (SVN) version control
system
7. LANGUAGE ABILITY
Adobe Dreamweaver is available in the following languages: Brazilian
Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch,
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only),
Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Some of the most interesting new features of Dreamweaver CC include:
• the live view now runs on Chromium for a closer to reality view of your
pages
• visual CSS editor
• includes Adobe Edge fonts
Dreamweaver is now fully integrated into the Adobe Creative Cloud
series of products and can only be purchased by getting a membership
with the Creative Cloud.
