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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Build Web sites and Internet applications
- Integrated workspace shared with Flash MX and Fireworks MX
- Write code faster than ever before
- Site setup wizard helps configure site information instantly
- Get started quickly with pre-built layouts and code
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX is a top-flight Web editor for dynamic sites as well as static pages. Dreamweaver's excellent visual tools generate code that works across all the leading Web browsers, winning it the respect of professionals. It's availability on the Mac as well as Windows is another strong feature for designers. The product is also extensible, with a huge range of third-party add-ons available from Macromedia's Web site, many of them free of charge. There is great support for Internet standards, including Cascading Style Sheets, XHTML and accessibility features. Built-in validators make it easy to check a page, and everything is highly configurable, so you can specify the standards you want to support.
This is a visual editor, which means you can create and edit a Web page by selecting items such as tables, forms and images from a tabbed palette. The Properties panel lets you specify details such as borders, styles and hyperlinks, and you can also use the visual editor for frames and layers. Many designers also like to edit the underlying HTML, and this is where Dreamweaver MX comes into its own. It supports either a pure code view, or a split view that lets you click seamlessly between the code and visual editors. A lot of the features previously found in HomeSite, Macromedia's text-based Web editor, are now integrated into Dreamweaver, including pop-up code hints, a snippets panel that lets you keep handy pieces of code for reuse, and a tag chooser that lets you grab the right tag from a list. An O'Reilly tag reference is built-in.
Dreamweaver's template support deserves special mention. Templates give you a quick start with a number of pre-designed pages. In Dreamweaver MX, they can also be used to lock-down areas of the page, so that contributors can create and edit a story without disturbing the design. Templates can be nested, and changes to an underlying template ripple through the pages that use it, for powerful site-wide updates.
Macromedia used to market a product called Dreamweaver Ultradev, which allowed rapid development of Web applications featuring online databases, member log-in, and other server-side elements. In Dreamweaver MX, this capability is built-in. It has also been extended, adding support for ASP .Net and PHP as well as ColdFusion, Javaserver pages and traditional ASP. Non-specialists will find themselves able to build rich dynamic pages, while the integrated code editor makes this a capable development product as well. In fact, Dreamweaver MX has also replaced ColdFusion Studio, as the primary development tool for ColdFusion MX. It is a uniquely flexible package.
Overall it is hard to fault Dreamweaver MX. It's true that its complexity and professional features make it harder to pick up than some rival products. The abundance of panels and options can be confusing, and a high-resolution screen is required. In addition, the Studio MX products, which include Dreamweaver, are better value for those who need more than one of the MX series. That takes nothing away from the excellence of Dreamweaver as the first-choice tool for professionals. --Tim Anderson
Manufacturer's Description
The world's best way to create professional websites is now the easiest way to build powerful Internet applications. For the first time, you can work in a single environment to quickly create, build, and manage websites and Internet applications. Get visual layout tools. Experience rapid web application development. Utilize extensive code-editing support. It's all in one complete, integrated solution - Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.Now every member of your development team - designers, developers, and programmers - can work in a single integrated environment to create, build, and manage websites and Internet applications. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX combines its renowned visual layout tools with the rapid web application development features of Dreamweaver UltraDev and the extensive code-editing support of Macromedia HomeSite. So the world's best way to create professional websites is now the easiest way to build powerful Internet applications.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As good as it gets,
This review is from: Dreamweaver MX (CD-ROM)
Having used both Dreamweaver and Frontpage extensively, and having also played with GoLive, I’ve come to the conclusion that Dreamwaver is by a long way the best solution for developing web sites on the market. It provides great support all the way from simple, static HTML sites using templates to maintain links and graphics, up to powerful data driven sites using any combination of JSP, PHP, Coldfusion , ASP, applets etc. The UI is really well designed and everything is pretty much where you expect it to be, the product is rock solid and produces excellent non-verbose HTML straight from the GUI. There are good tutorials and documentation, and its collection of built in scripts and code snippets are superb. It doesn’t get any better than this…
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Greatest Web Development Program of them all?,
This review is from: Dreamweaver MX (CD-ROM)
Frontpage is said to produce excess code, GoLive isnt as easy to use, or as extensible, so what choice do you have?Macromedia have added all of Ultradev's dynamic features, come up with an awesome new user interface and reduced the price that ultradev carried to create Dreamweaver MX The company say that this is for professionals only. Whilst true it is also a good buy for perfectionist hobbiests. With this one program you can design, from start to finish, a fully functioning website that can search through a database, perform formats on that data (from the DBase) and publish your site to your webhost, all through one interface. The only other tool you will need (if you don't have one) is a graphics program. Fireworks is the perfect companion to Dreamweaver; it integrates seamlessly and is fast and efficient, sharing the same interface too. The community of Dreamweaver is fantastic, Macromedia even went as far as creating forums, allowing users to exchange ideas and help each other on problems they might be having. Simply put, this tool will allow you to create fantastic website's
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of all worlds.,
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This review is from: Dreamweaver MX (CD-ROM)
I fell in love with Dreamweaver MX from the first moment I loaded it up. The manual (hard copy) was a pleasant first introduction, no snipes at competing editors (a la Front Page 2002 'pamphlet' notes) and no boasting about being the best. It doesn't need to boast - it is light years ahead of the competition and this becomes evident from the first use. From the included tutorials to building your first templates to the site you always wanted, this is pleasure. The ability to switch between hard coding and the graphical interface (coders never really 'let go'!) is ridiculously easy. The split screen view of what's happening with one click on update. The inclusion of Flash tools, intuitive tools menu and infinitely adjustable workspace and tools menus are excellent. The inclusion of Cold Fusion MX developer's edition and HomeSite+ are icing on the cake. I'm sold on it and cannot imagine using anything else to build and edit sites (just NoteTab Pro and TopStyle Pro as my additional hard code tools and Fireworks for graphical creation, edit and manipulation) as there is nothing missing.
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