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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $399.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 10, 2003
- Total Downloads: 3,952,641
- Downloads last week: 2
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 174 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is the first rollout of this Web design application since Adobe acquired Macromedia. Is it the same Dreamweaver as before?
Installation time has doubled, not including Adobe's mandatory registration process. Once installed, Dreamweaver looks more like Adobe's other products, but it will be familiar to users of previous versions. There are some new, dockable palettes for new features, but the Welcome screen, toolbars, and main window are largely unchanged.
CSS support now features a large array of templates and new tools to help manage styles, and commentary on how best to use the CSS--including Internet Explorer workarounds. Improved integration means you can drag a Photoshop file directly to Dreamweaver, and select and copy any area of a PS image, including layers, and paste it into Dreamweaver.
Adobe's new Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library of code snippets that makes it easy to add client-side behaviors. It's broken into Effects, which are animations, Data, which binds dynamic data to HTML, and Widgets, which create interactive elements such as pop-up menus.
Those learning the baby steps of Web design should take a class or read some books before diving in. Dreamweaver's advanced features won't be intuitive for anyone who hasn't studied them first. But because of the high price tag, we don't recommend upgrading to CS3 as a standalone product.
Publisher's description
From Adobe Systems :Dreamweaver 8 is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. With Dreamweaver 8, web developers go from start to finish, creating and maintaining basic websites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies.
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User reviews of Adobe Dreamweaver 8
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 174 votes
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18 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Dreamweaver 8
"Best choice for web designer"
Pros: Dreamweaver is the most popular web editor in the world. It has well designed and easy to use interface, many prepared scripts, very good code editor and more... Double interface (coder and designer) makes this software better than others.
Cons: Pretty expensive
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23 out of 26 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Dreamweaver 8
"Much improved over earlier versions, but..."
Pros: Version MX 2004 has a much better interface than previous versions. It still needs a lot of work, but at least most routine operations don't make you open a dozen menus any more. The code and CSS validation are welcome and accurate, and styles and tags are now displayed much more accurately than they used to be.
Cons: Good god, is this thing bloated, though. The program and its price tag are way too big for the utility it offers underneath all those (dubious) bells and whistles. Even with the improved interface, there are some tasks that are easier with Notepad than they are with Dreamweaver. I wonder if Dreamweaver would be anywhere near as popular if the trial version were not so easily hacked to disable the time-out..?
They're never going to get me to pay four bills for this program. I'm with CNet, and wish Macromedia would offer a smaller and more sanely-priced version, without so much useless fluff.
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18 out of 34 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Dreamweaver 8
"Great program, a step up over frontpage"
Pros: I think this program is better then frontpage. It has great features, is easy to use, and looks GREAT. Love it, must have
Cons: Frontpage is however easier to learn i feel
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Dreamweaver 8
Pros: It is very powerful and you can do almost anything you want when you learn how to. The tabs go away to show more of the page itself when you want to work on it. The pre-made templates are nice and having the option to have all different kinds of pages it helpful when you first start off.
Cons: I had people constantly telling me to use Dreamweaver for my site. Well, I did, and now I feel like I need to take a class on it. I'm not completely new to HTML editing, or designing websites, but Dreamweaver has so many things on it, it takes a while to get used to. Also, the ftp uploading is very strange and I've just decided to use FileZilla instead.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Adobe Dreamweaver 8
"Better than Frontpage but it loads slowlier"
Pros: It's better than Frontpage, I think. It offers better look and is professional. It's the one for pro.
Cons: But it loads slowlier than Frontpage. Sometimes my PC doesn't respond.
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