Macromedia Dreamweaver Additional Dreamweaver Design Features Forrest Stroud
Additional Dreamweaver Design Features
Additional design features include a repeating element library that makes changes to repeated content in all the pages of a site (allowing you to change all the headers and footers for your site at one time, for example), and Dynamic HTML animation timelines for creating sophisticated animations that run in 4.x/5.x browsers without the need for plug-ins.
The feature list continues with advanced link checking capabilities, a conversion tool for making your pages 3.0 browser compatible, a browser verification tool that identifies pages that won't work in a specific browser and reports the tags that are causing problems, and an HTML inspector window that allows you to see the HTML code generated in real time while you work in Dreamweaver's visual mode.
Another beneficial aspect of Dreamweaver is that it preserves the content and structure of your HTML code for pages that were created in other editors. This contrasts with a client like FrontPage which has the tendency to add its own coding and make unnecessary changes to your existing content. Recent releases of Dreamweaver augment these capabilities with a roundtrip layers-to-tables feature and an integrated XML parser that offers rountrip XML.
