Product Description

Quickly and easily design develop and maintain websites and webapplications from start to finish with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3software. Built for both designers and developers Dreamweaver CS3offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layoutint

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #593 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2007-04-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Vista Enterprise
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .71 pounds

Manufacturer's Description:
Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications - from start to finish - with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Contribute CS3 software ensures efficient workflow across your favourite tools.

Web designers can discover an exceptional web design workflow with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Design and maintain websites from start to finish with your choice of either a powerful visual design interface or an efficient coding environment. Streamline design with helpful CSS features; preview your pages for PCs, mobile devices, and print; and easily test pages for browser compatibility. Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Fireworks CS3, and other Adobe tools.

Develop more reliable, consistent web applications based on universally accepted development standards with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, and Ajax, for both internal and external projects. Ensure consistency with helpful CSS features and automated cross-browser compatibility testing.

Discover Dreamweaver CS3 and its full complement of new features, including CSS tools, Ajax components for building dynamic user interfaces, and intelligent integration with other Adobe software.

Key features:
Industry-leading tool - Take advantage of all the flexibility and power of a world-class web design tool. Manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, craft complex code in Code view, or do a little of each. Work the way you work best.

Integrated workflows - Design, develop, and maintain content within Dreamweaver CS3 while taking advantage of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, and new Adobe Device Central CS3 for creating mobile device content.

Complete CSS support - Discover the advantage of visual CSS tools that make it easy to view, edit, and move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check.

Integrated coding environment - Organize and accelerate your coding with code collapse, colour coding, line numbering, and a coding toolbar with comment/uncomment and code snippets. Apply code hints for HTML and server languages.

Support for leading technologies - Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Effortless XML - Quickly integrate XML content using either XSL or the Spry framework for Ajax. Point to an XML file or XML feed URL, and Dreamweaver CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.

Adobe Flash Video support - Easily add Flash Video to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Flash required. Customize the video environment to match your website.

Learning resources - Learn as you go with comprehensive in-product tutorials, reference content, and instructional templates that make it easy to expand your skill set and adopt the latest technologies.

Extended Dreamweaver community - Enjoy all the benefits of the extensive Dreamweaver community, including the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Center, training and seminars, developer certification programs, user forums, and more than 1,000 downloadable extensions available in the Dreamweaver Exchange.

Cross-platform support - Pick your platform: Dreamweaver CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred platform and then deliver across platforms with more reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

Customer Reviews

Does What It Says On The Tin...But...
Dreamweaver CS3 is a fantstic product. I've been a fan of this software for some time and this release is spectacular. The problem is that if, as I do, you have Windows Vista and don't know much about Administrator mode or the Registry then you should avoid it like the plague. I spent last night trying to install the product on my system only have the installer software quit again and again. I was about to ask for my money back when I found a solution on an independent developers' forum but it involves editing the Registry file and using Administrator priviledges to kick start the installer. Adobe does not seem to have addressed this issue properly on its support site and there is no warning in the package. So, buyer beware - if you have Vista and don't have the technical confidence to do minor command line surgery on your computer!

Customer Service is terrible
Be very careful before purchasing as the customer service provided by Adobe is terrible. We followed a legitimate upgrade path with Dreamweaver but have now been told that we cannot install the latest upgrade we purchased as they no longer recognise the serial number we were first issued with on the full product. Going round in circles with them and now being forced to buy the full product again after paying for upgrades for 7 years. We run fully legit software and have all the upgrade disks and the original full product disc. Be Careful!!!!!!

This is still the best - but its way to pricey
Dreamweaver is still the best web design app out there, especially when combined with Fireworks. For designers who are a bit shaky with code (like me!), it is great and there isn't much you can't achieve with it. My only criticism is that it is way too expensive for what it is. Fine - £400 isn't much if you are going to make lots of money with it, but for occasional use, it is expensive. Also, it isn't the most user friendly app. There is a steepish learning curve to get to grips with it.

Alot of my working time these days is spent on a Mac and I tend to use the excellent Freeway Express package which is nice to use and does pretty much all I want or need - for only £60! There are similar packages out there from the likes of Serif for the PC.

You can't not recommend Dreamweaver, but I would recommend checking out the easier to use and cheaper alternatives first. They maybe all you need.

BTW - it would have 5 stars if the price was better