Adobe Dreamweaver
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| Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Screenshot Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 under Windows 7 | |
| Original author(s) | Macromedia |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
| Stable release | 11.5 (CS5.5)
/ April 12, 2011 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Mac OS X |
| Type | IDE |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) is a proprietary web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005.[1]
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 (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.[2]
Features
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web authoring application that allows users to preview websites natively in a preview pane or in locally installed web browsers. It provides 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 update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. The behaviours panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and integration with Adobe's Spry Ajax framework offers easy access to dynamically-generated content and interfaces.
Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core functionality of the application, which any web developer can write (largely in HTML and JavaScript). Dreamweaver is supported by a large community of extension developers who make extensions available (both commercial and free) for most web development tasks from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping carts.
Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system.
Syntax highlighting
As of version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP).
- ASP.NET (no longer supported as of version CS4 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html)
- C#
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- ColdFusion
- EDML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- Java
- JavaScript
- JavaServer Pages (JSP) (no longer supported as of version CS4 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402489.html)
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- Visual Basic (VB)
- Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
It is also possible for users to add their own language syntax highlighting. In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.
Internationalization and localization
Language availability
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.[3]
Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features a Middle Eastern version that allows typing Arabic, Persian or Hebrew text (written from right to left) within the code view. Whether the text is fully Middle Eastern (written from right to left) or includes both English and Middle Eastern text (written left to right and right to left), it will be displayed properly in the browser.
Version history
| Provider | Major version | Minor update/alternative name | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macromedia | 1.0 | 1.0 | December 1997 | First version. Mac OS only. |
| 1.2 | March 1998 | First Windows version. | ||
| 2.0 | 2.0 | December 1998 | ||
| 3.0 | 3.0 | December 1999 | ||
| UltraDev 1.0 | June 1999 | |||
| 4.0 | 4.0 | December 2000 | ||
| UltraDev 4.0 | December 2000 | |||
| 6.0 | MX | 29 May 2002 | ||
| 7.0 | MX 2004 | 10 September 2003 | ||
| 8.0 | 8.0 | 13 September 2005 | Last Macromedia version. | |
| Adobe | 9.0 | CS3 | 16 April 2007 | Replaces Adobe GoLive in Creative Suite. |
| 10.0 | CS4 | 23 September 2008 | ||
| 11.0 | CS5 | 12 April 2010 | ||
| 11.5 | CS5.5 | 12 April 2011 | Supports HTML5 |
| Color | Legend |
|---|---|
| Red | Old version, no longer supported |
| Yellow | Old version, still supported |
| Green | Current version |
Costs
Subscriptions
Month-to-month - $29.00 per month
Yearly - $19.00 per month
Upgrades
Previously owned:
Dreamweaver CS5 - $119.00
Dreamweaver CS4 - $199.00
Dreamweaver CS3 - $199.00
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 - $199.00
GoLive 9 - $199.00
GoLive CS2 - $199.00
GoLive CS - $199.00
Full
Full - $399.00
See also
References
- ^ "Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia" (PDF). Press Releases. Adobe, Inc. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Learn to build dynamic websites and web applications". Dreamweaver Developer Center. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5: System Requirements and languages". Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
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