Adobe Dreamweaver

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“The industry standard for web design”

by Nick Mead about Adobe Dreamweaver

When it comes to web design, there's only one serious option that most professionals use and that's Adobe Dreamweaver.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is the latest incarnation of this all powerful web design program and doesn’t include big changes but rather many minor improvements that make your daily coding faster and easier. This new version of Adobe Dreamweaver includes new features such as Fluid Grid Layout, Improved FTP performance, Adobe Business Catalyst integration, Enhanced jQuery Mobile support, Updated PhoneGap support and more.

Like previous versions, Adobe Dreamweaver follows the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) philosophy so you can see exactly what you're doing with every change in code. Alternatively, you can opt for a full code view or if you want your cake and eat it, see both at once in a split view. Inserting elements is a breeze offering you maximum flexibility to drag and drop or insert by code images, video, audio and more. You can easily shift and rearrange these elements until you're happy with the exact layout.

There are still a ton of ready made CSS and style sheets plus beginners are accommodated with step-by-step explanations of what CSS is and how it works including support prediction and suggestions of code for those working in Java and Ajax. Adobe Dreamweaver is of course seamlessly integrated with the rest of Creative Suite 5. You can easily import and export projects and content from the latest versions of Photoshop and Illustrator for example.

Unfortunately, there is no native support for emerging HTML5 and CSS3 standards in Dreamweaver CS6 but there are plugins that enable it to. Note that the entire CS5 suite works on both 32 and 64 bit Macs (except Premiere Pro and After Effects which only work on 64-bit Macs). However, those using 64 bit machines will notice considerable performance improvements.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is another positive evolution of the web design industry reference tool and will is the best app out there to help you meet the demands of the next generation of web content.

Pros
  • Packed with powerful tools
  • Excellent multimedia integration
  • Tailored to deal with Web 2.0 content
  • Improved CSS inspection
  • Integration with WordPress, Joomla! etc
  • Writes good clean code
Cons
  • Lengthy installation process
  • Takes a while for beginners to get to grips with
  • No native support for emerging HTML5 and CSS3 standards
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