Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio Dreamweaver 3 Paul Jones
Dreamweaver is the standard Web development platform for many professional developers. The first WYSIWYG Web design product to market with Roundtrip HTML and Roundtrip XML, Dreamweaver provides developers with the highest level of source code control. Dreamweaver 3 includes Roundtrip Server Markup with support for ASP, JSP, CFML and PHP formats. The excellent Quick Tag Editor brings code-level editing into the WYSIWYG environment.
Dreamweaver 3 sports many new features version 2 users put on their wish lists. Web developers, feast your eyes:
Quick Tag Editor--Add or remove a tag around current selection from within the Document window.
HTML Styles--Define styles using standard markup or CSS.
Improved HTML Inspector--Dockable HTML Inspector now numbers lines. Select entire lines of code from the margin.
Native Macintosh Codebase--Entirely native code for MAC version.
Check In and Check Out--Check in or out directly from the Document window.
Synchronize Files--A personal favorite. Synchronize remote and local versions of a site.
Launch and Edit Media--Define multiple editors for file types.
Expanded Object Palette- New objects for Generator, Flash and more.
Clean Up Word HTML--Another personal favorite, this cleans up Word documents that were created using "Save as Web Page".
Inline Image Maps--Edit image maps directly in the Document window.
Insert Fireworks HTML--Automated insertion of Fireworks HTML.
Tabular Data Object--A boon for users who need to display spreadsheets and databases in HTML tables.
Design Notes--Keep notes about a file for other developers on the team and keep the note with the file.
Roundtrip Server Markup--A must for ASP, CFML and PHP users.
History Palette--Repeat one or many steps and save a step as a command. Saving no longer clears the Undo list.
Increased Extensibility--More than 300 new API functions in version 3.
Customizable Menus--Now the entire menu system is defined in an XML file.