Adobe Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is an HTML editor from Adobe Systems (originally developed by Macromedia ), consisting of a combination of a WYSIWYG editor with parallel source editing. Due to its complexity, its wide range of functions and price, the program is more commonly used by professionals. Dreamweaver is currently running on the operating systems Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. According to the manufacturer Dreamweaver has over 3.2 million users worldwide.

Characteristics and development

Dreamweaver allows graphical editing of web pages and offers features such as color coding and AutoComplete for HTML and scripting languages ​​like PHP and JavaScript.

The first version of Dreamweaver released in 1997. Add to Dreamweaver CS3 versions from 7 to the Opera Presto engine was for the layout rendering used since version CS4, the Webkit engine. In version 2.3 of the Adobe Creative Suite is also included in addition to GoLive, Dreamweaver. In the Creative Suite 3.0 GoLive was completely replaced by Dreamweaver.

Since the update to version 11.0.4 partial syntax support for HTML5 and CSS3 is implemented; CS5.5 since it is fully supported. In CS5.5 also the open source project PhoneGap was introduced in Dreamweaver. This should be possible, an application programming for iOS and Android.

Versions

Supplements

For some time, Adobe offers a number of apps for smartphones and tablets, users will assist you in working with Dreamweaver. This includes, for example, Adobe Proto for Apple iOS, with the help of which the basic layout of a website can be planned on the mobile device. The program supports a variety of gestures with which plan to head, navigation and footer, and can be placed interactive elements such as images and videos. Once the design of a website is completed on the tablet, the automatically generated source code for further processing can be exported as a ZIP archive and transferred to a regular computer.

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