About Dreamweaver: Originally produced by Macromedia and currently by the Adobe Systems, Dreamweaver is an application for web development. With the help of Dreamweaver, which integrates different aspects of web development including site management, page creation and web server tools, users can get a good outlook of the whole website. Various technologies like JavaScript, CSS and several frameworks and serverside scripting languages like ASP, ColdFusion and PHP have been given support by the new versions of the application. Both Windows Operating Systems and Mac supports Dreamweaver.
Features: Though Dreamweaver is a hybrid WYSIWYG and an application of code based web development and design, its WYSIWYG mode is able to hide from the users, the pages’ HTML code details which make the creation of sites and web pages possible even for non-coders. The creation of table based layouts is very easy with this application. In the recent versions, the application has focused on supporting the standard based layout with the ability of converting tables to layers.
The locally installed websites in the web browsers can be previewed by the users using Dreamweaver. Site management tools like FTP, SFTP and WebDAV features of synchronization and file transfers, templating features which help in the source update of shared code and layout of the whole sites without the server side includes and scripting, are present in this application. It also has the ability to use regular expressions and search items to find and replace code or text lines across the full site.
The third party ‘extensions’ can be used by Dreamweaver for enabling and extending the application’s main functionality. Many extension developers, who make available the free and commercial extensions, support Dreamweaver for many web development tasks ranging from fully featured shopping carts to simple effects of rollover. Also the files can be edited locally by Dreamweaver, and using WebDAV, SFTP and FTP, upload them into the remote web server similar to the other HTML editions.
Drawbacks of Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver has the potential of producing HTML pages with file size and HTML code amount bigger than a page which is optimally hand coded. This is a drawback, as it causes the poor performance of the web browsers. Earlier, many website developers have criticized Dreamweaver for producing codes which do not comply many times with the standards of W3C. There has also been a poor performance by the Dreamweaver 8.0 on the Acid 2 Test that had been developed by Web Standards Project.
Syntax Highlighting: Syntax Highlighting is supported by the latest versions of Dreamweaver for the languages like ActionScript, ASP.Net, Active Server Pages, C#, ColdFusion, Cascading Style Sheets, EDML, Extensible Markup Language, HyperText Markup Language, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, Java, JavaServer Pages, JavaScript, PHP, Visual Basic, VB Script and Wireless Markup Language. For many of the above mentioned languages, code completion is available and you can also add to its repertoire, your own language syntax highlighting.
Language Availability: Various languages in which the Adobe Dreamweaver is available are English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Brazilian.
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