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    • How to Use Dreamweaver

      Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most popular web design and coding programs. Even if you are a complete web beginner, Dreamweaver provides an extensive array of powerful tools to help you easily create your first web page. By using the application's design mode, you can quickly assemble your web page and Dreamweaver will automatically... more »

    • How to Create a Dreamweaver Template

      Adobe Dreamweaver has become the most used tool by Web designers in the world. One of its strongest features is the Dreamweaver template. This template allows a designer to alter several Web pages quickly and efficiently. Once the template is created it can be used across a client's website. This is very effective when the client... more »

    • How to Learn Dreamweaver Software

      Dreamweaver is a powerful but fairly simple software used to design and manage websites. Dreamweaver is very popular because it is so powerful but easy to use once you understand some of the basic rules and instructions. Dreamweaver isn't cheap but middle of the road in terms of software prices for productivity software. Most people... more »

    • How to Make a Web Page Using Dreamweaver

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    • How to Make a Contact Form in Dreamweaver

      Although Dreamweaver does not have a prewritten template for a contact form, it is not difficult to create a simple form like this using Dreamweaver's built-in form design options. Only two elements are absolutely necessary---a place for the user to leave information and a method to forward this to your own email. Beyond this, contact... more »

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    • How Does Dreamweaver Work?

      On the user's computer (the local computer), Dreamweaver creates HTML code with simple point-and-click functionality. Much of the document and... more »

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      The template feature in Macromedia Dreamweaver is a very useful website programming tool, particularly for large sites. Templates allow a website... more »

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    • About Adobe Dreamweaver

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    Adobe Dreamweaver

    | programming language operating system [[Microsoft Windows
    genre [[IDE
    | license Proprietary
    | website
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    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, Dreamweavers 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. One criticism of this approach is that it has the potential to produce HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is larger than an optimally hand-coded page would be, which can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true because the application makes it very easy to create PRON table-based layouts. Some web site developers criticized Dreamweaver for producing code that often did not comply with W3C standards, though recent versions have been more compliant. Dreamweaver 8.0 performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project. Adobe has focused on support for standards-based layout in recent and current versions of the application, including the ability to convert tables to layers.

    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 upd read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe+Dreamweaver

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