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Adobe Dreamweaver

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 under Windows XP
Developer(s)	Adobe Systems (formerly by Macromedia)
Stable release	CS4 (10.0) / September 23, 2008; 17 month(s) ago (2008-09-23)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X
Type	IDE
License	Proprietary
Website	Adobe Dreamweaver Homepage

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 retail box

Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) is a web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005.

Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP.

Features

Although a hybrid WYSIWYG and code-based web design and development application, Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG mode can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites.

Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. It also has site management tools such as FTP/SFTP and WebDAV file transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and 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 behaviours panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and integration with Adobe's Spry AJAX framework offers easy access to dynamically-generated content and interfaces.

Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core functionality of the application, which any web developer can write (largely in HTML and JavaScript). Dreamweaver is supported by a large community of extension developers who make extensions available (both commercial and free) for most web development tasks from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping carts.

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.

Syntax highlighting

As of version 6, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:

• ActionScript
• Active Server Pages (ASP).
• ASP.NET
• C#
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• ColdFusion
• EDML
• Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• Java
• JavaScript
• JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
• Visual Basic (VB)
• Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)

It is also possible to add your own language syntax highlighting to its repertoire.

In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.

Version history

CS3 Icon

Internationalization and localization

Language availability

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified (Windows only), Chinese Traditional (Windows only), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.^[2]

Specific Features for Arabic and Hebrew languages

The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features a Middle Eastern version that allows typing Arabic, Persian or Hebrew text (written from right to left) within the code view. Whether the text is fully Middle Eastern (written from right to left) or includes both English and Middle Eastern text (written left to right and right to left), it will be displayed properly in the browser.

See also

• KompoZer
• List of HTML editors
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Macromedia HomeSite
• Web application
• Web design
• Quanta Plus
• Microsoft Expression Web

Notes

1. ^ http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/
2. ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS4: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/systemreqs/. Retrieved 2008-10-29. 

External links

• Dreamweaver Official site
• Adobe Dreamweaver Extensions

From Wikiversity

Adobe Dreamweaver Department

Welcome to the School of Graphic Design's Adobe Dreamweaver Department. In this department, you will learn the basic elements of Adobe Dreamweaver and how to use it to accomplish simple tasks. Many versions of Dreamweaver are used in these lessons, as this was created by many users. Use the screenshots as a guideline, not as a definitive. The lessons in this department will walk you through a variety of subject areas.

Other Creative Suite Training Resources:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Dreamweaver

Department news

• Monday, December 4, 2006 - Department founded!

Active participants

Active participants in this Learning Group

The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this department, you can list your name here (this can help small departments grow and the participants communicate better; for large departments a list of active participants is not needed).

• Dekenet 05:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Onekopaka 05:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)