AdobeDreamweaver CS8

Description

Adobe Dreamweaver is a software for designing web pages. These HTML web pages are fully featured. This software provides a WYSIWYG i.e., What You See Is What You Get interface for creating and editing the web pages. The Adobe Dreamweaver software supports many markup languages like HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. It supports English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, etc….

The Dreamweaver was developed by Macromedia, and it was published in 1997. In 2005 the Adobe had purchased Dreamweaver and name it as Adobe Dreamweaver.

Features of Adobe Dreamweaver

1. Fast, flexible coding.

Creating, coding, and managing the websites becomes very easy because of the simplified coding engine. Using this software, HTML, CSS, and other web standards can be quickly learned. It speeds up the development of the web site.

2. Setup to site up in fewer steps.

It becomes very easy to set up a web site, and starter templates can be run very fast. Templates can be customized for email, About pages, blogs, e-commerce pages, newsletters, and portfolios. For reading codes, code coloring and visual hints can be used for quickly editing and updating.

3. Dynamic display on every device.

Using Adobe Dreamweaver responsive websites can build that can be fit into any screen size. This helps in previewing sites and editing makes sure that the page looks and works the same way that you want.

Below are some of the latest updates

1. Multi-monitor support for Windows

The workspace can be expended by displaying web pages on multiple monitors.

2. CEF integration

The latest version of the Chromium Embedded Framework is integrated with Dreamweaver. So now, web pages can be built using HTML5 websites and elements can be display, CSS grids, and many more.

3. Redesigned, modern UI

For customization of workspace Streamlined and the clutter-free interface can be used. It displays the tools which need to be coded.

4. Git support

Collaboration is very easy using Git support. From the Git panel, all the source code can be managed within Dreamweaver, and all the common operations can be performed

New features in Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2019

1. CEF updates

The latest version of the Chromium Embedded Framework is integrated with Dreamweaver. Designers and developers can build Websites and display Flexbox elements, CSS grids and many more.

2. ES6 support

For a quick listing of classes, methods, arrow function and generated functions, EcmaScript 6 is supported in Dreamweaver. ES6 code can be used for working with the latest JavaScript updates.

3. JavaScript refactoring

JavaScript codes can be organized using features like rename and refactor.

Following are the Pros of Adobe Dreamweaver

1. For quick scanning, it can highlight the code.

It helps in determining where is CSS, PHP, JavaScript, or HTML code is to be placed. For creating a dynamic page, this feature is very useful.

2. Helps beginners to understand the coding for a website.

The color-coding feature of highlighting helps beginners very much as it can display what a specific command can do for template and pages. By this, the learning process becomes very easy.

3. code suggestions for the user.

It is a very important benefit for beginners while coding. If the user is confused about what to do with an image, a font, or a color, then the Adobe Dreamweaver will auto-fill the suggestions directly with a drop-down menu in the code. Select your choice, which suits your websites and create a code. It is very easy.

4. User needs to switch screens.

The real-time results of the program can be seen by the users. Many programs do not allow this feature of viewing page in real-time on the same screen. In Adobo Dreamweaver coding and the designing view is on the same screen, on top is the designing view and on the bottom of the coding area.

5. The code of the developer is instantly checked.

For a beginner, it is very important to build a correct and valid in the starting phase. When coding is done in a traditional manner, then accessibility issues and mistakes in the code can occur. Adobe Dreamweaver highlights the mistakes and shows all the issues and also check all accessibility.

6. Using word processing variations in content creation becomes easy.

In Microsoft Office, if you want to bold a text, then you just press Ctrl+B. In Adobe Dreamweaver for bolding a text, you need to highlight the text and then a word processor heads-up display which helps in creating fast changes in the highlighted section.

7. Finding and replacing items becomes easy in the created site.

In Adobe Dreamweaver, a user can find and replace items from there content, coding, or in any specific tags using find and replace tool. If any new plugin releases can be updated the code very easily. Thousands of pages can be updated in just a second using this feature.

8. A developer can tab via files like someone tabs via internet sites.

The functionality included in Dreamweaver makes the switching between files makes it very easy. Visiting multiple menus using this feature file can be kept ready. This is very beneficial in templates and also in overall design plans.

Following are the cons of Adobe Dreamweaver

1. It is not a browser-based IDE.

The output of the coding in Adobe Dreamweaver can be different in the browser because the browser will interpret the code in a different way. This becomes a huge disadvantage for the developers because it will not respond in cross-platform.

2. A lot of time is required to learn the interface.

When you first start with the adobe Dreamweaver, then you will get dozen of items for accessing. Depending on the file that you will open, 50+ different things can be seen on the screen. For a beginner, it would be very intimidating to start the coding.

3. What you are seeing is not necessary that you will always get.

This is a very disadvantage because here design view proves that it is not a browser-based view. For a developer, it becomes difficult for the positioning of items. It is 100% guaranteed that the output will be very disappointed in the browser.

4. There is no specific automatic coding option.

The Adobe Dreamweaver was designed to meet the requirements of the users. Because of this, the code becomes very lengthy. The validation of one line takes 15-20 lines of code in adobe Dreamweaver.

5. Global styling is a major issue.

If a developer wants to use the properties bar on the text within the old version of Adobe Dreamweaver, then it will add an undefined and not styled document to the coding. In case if you want many dozens of undefined styles, then it will create an issue for styling the website.

6. Pressing enter after completion of a line affects the size.

Generally, when we type a line after completion of it, we press the enter key from the keyboard. In Adobe Dreamweaver, when you are writing a line, and after completion of it, you press the enter key, then Dreamweaver will treat it as a paragraph. Also, the text will appear around the image.

7. A lot of additional features by which a user is not familiar.

As adobe Dreamweaver is designed for the user to make there work easy, but most of the users find that a lot of features are present which they have never used.