Dreamweaver 8.0 Sample Activities
Dreamweaver 8 was a program made by Macromedia when it was purchased in 2005 by Adobe. It offers tools to make webpages and do other Internet-related activities. Adobe added Dreamweaver to its Adobe Creative Suite 4 product, adding on to its features and integrating the program with Adobe's leading programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash. CS4 works with Mac and Windows operating systems and costs $499 as of 2010. It's is a professional program, so it has some reasonable computing requirements like a 1GHz processor or faster, 512MB of RAM and 1GB of hard disk space.
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Web Design
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The most popular Dreamweaver 8 activity is the construction of websites. Use Dreamweaver to combine text and pictures in the editor and create webpages. A Design view lets you work with webpages visually, while Code view lets you hand code webpages. Link those pages together to make a website, and use Dreamweaver to upload and host the site on a server. Dreamweaver uses a version control system to update and manage your site.
Live View
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Dreamweaver's Live View allows you to make webpages while looking at them in real-world browsing conditions, whereas before, you were forced to tweak the code, then look at the site in a browser. Dreamweaver's new Live Code checks your coding faster than the old way of doing code checks in a browser.
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Add Video
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You can add interactive video to your webpages by using Dreamweaver to embed Flash files in your webpage and make tweaks to them.
Insert Animations
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You can use Dreamweaver to insert animations in a webpages and alter the animations, which is faster than the old way of reopening animation software to tweak it. Similarly, you can use Dreamweaver to insert Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files, and tweak them as though Photoshop or Illustrator were running.
Include Java
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Webpages can be made even more useful by adding functionality through Dreamweaver's support for JavaScript frameworks and Ajax. You can use Javascript and Dreamweaver to make web-based games.
Harness Databases
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You can use Dreamweaver to add databases to your webpages like like PHP, ColdFusion and ASP. Databases power big sites like eBay and Craigslist.
Use CSS
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You can make your webpage look amazing with Cascading Style Sheets, which you can import into your Dreamweaver page using Dreamweaver's Fireworks importer. This allows you to build webpages fast from existing code.
Collaborate Online
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Adobe CS4 will let you meet live over the web and share your work with collaborators through Adobe ConnectNow, which can speed up productivity.
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