Why Should You Buy Adobe Dreamweaver?
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is the latest version of the leading web development and site management application originally owned by Macromedia. Dreamweaver is the ideal tool for web designers, coders, and application developers of all levels. Web professionals of every level of experience will find a workspace arrangement to fit their style, or they can create one of their own. The Dreamweaver interface has been updated to fall in line with look and overall functionality of the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 programs. The user interface of Dreamweaver CS4 is both highly efficient and aesthetically pleasing.
Dreamweaver is as useful for build basic sites using web technologies like XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as more complex sites incorporating server-side technologies such as ASP.Net, Coldfulsion and PHP. It also allows you to create web pages driven by a database as well as admin pages for updating and deleting database records, log in pages and server behaviours for restricting access to certain areas of your site.
In addition, you will find that Dreamweaver is not one of those web development environments which adds tons of proprietary code to the the pages you create. If you are an experienced web developer and have already web sites using other tools, Dreamweaver opens web pages and web sites that were created in other programs without modifying the code. Dreamweaver allows you to work in Code or Design view or to have a split screen where you can do both. Changes that you make in design view generate clean and standards-compliant code which you can modify in Code view as necessary.
The vast majority of web pages have external files linked to them such as CSS style sheets and JavaScript files. Dreamweaver CS4 makes working with such linked files much easier by giving you access to them from the Related Files toolbar.
Dreamweaver offers some wonderfully easy-to-use features for adding interactivity to your web pages. Dynamic effects like rollovers, pop-up windows and the showing and hiding of page content can be achieved without any programming. Dreamweaver automatically generates the necessary JavaScript for you. Similarly, Adobe’s Spry technology, based on CSS and JavaScript, provides easy access to complex, interactive functionality. Using Spry, you can easily create interactive, drop-down menus, advanced layout elements like tabbed panels and add sophisticated form validation to prevent visitors to your site from submitting forms inappropriate data.
Dreamweaver also incorporates an array of highly sophisticated site management tools. Unless you are mainly concerned with create email newsletters and similar promotional material, your web development will consist of creating and editing pages that work together to form part of a web site. You may also need to work on several such sites simultaneously. Dreamweaver’s site management tools make web site development easy to manage. It has tools for collaboration by a team of people working on the same sites, for synchronising local and live versions of a site, for checking links, and browser compatibility and, naturally it incorporates FTP client software.
