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- Price: Free to try
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 15, 1999
- Total Downloads: 3,952,641
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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 :Get the productivity of a visual Web page layout tool, the control of an HTML text editor, and support for Dynamic HTML all in one professional package with Macromedia Dreamweaver. Features include round trips between graphical editing mode and your favorite source editor, absolute positioning, Cascading Style Sheets, a Dynamic HTML animation timeline, an extensive JavaScript behavior library, visual table and frame design, a client-side image map editor, and a repeating-element library. As an added plus, this program includes integration code for BBEdit to make it work seamlessly with Dreamweaver. You can test dynamic objects with live playback of Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave animation technology or any Netscape plug-in and use SiteMap to move elements around, add new pages, and reorganize the site. Dreamweaver 2.0 introduced global search-and-replace functions and let you view and test the site as you designed with "What You See Is What You Serve" functionality. Version 2.0 also added support for Microsoft's Active Server Pages, Oracle's 8i database, and Allaire's ColdFusion. Version 3.0 adds a host of improvements and enhancements; for a detailed list, click here. This is a 30-day trial version. Registration costs $299.
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