Dreamweaver MX Upgrade

Having been a user of both Dreamweaver and Ultra-dev since their arrival on the pro web design scene, this represents a big change in one respect in that data driven web sites are now being delivered into the hands of every web site producer with the same product they use to design simple pages.

The most exiting thing for me is the new PHP feature, and in this i find Macromedia continuing in their trend of offering what their users are most hungry for, now i have no excuse for not learning PHP.

In terms of changes to the actual core design product, i have been happily switching between dreamweaver 4 and mx, and theres nothing in mx that i cant live without, obviously im not here refering to the dynamic data side of things here.

thankfully you can work with mx and make it look like the old dreamweaver interface, im currently working with the new integrated interface, and it all looks a bit frontpage to me, ill give it a chance though, admittedly it is slighly more efficient, but its just starting to look a lot less like a design tool, and a lot more like a developers tool.

Of the new features the ability to creare code snippets is pretty handy, but nothing too revolutionary, and the tag-inspector does speed up speed of changes to the code minded, but again nothing very new.

if your using dreamweaver for mainly design orientated web production, its possible the new features may not be enough to sway the upgrade, one big plus is the support for all the new and emergent technologies and standards, xml, xhtml, and as i mentioned earlier PHP on the dynamic side.

Dreamweaver is still the leading professional web design tool, it will reward all the learning by giving an easy to use cutting edge web development tool. The huge community of developers and users who provide countless extensions to dreamweaver allow easy adaption to whatever tasks it may be put.

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