What is dreamweaver for?

Question

everyone is always talking about it. Please tell me what it isd and what it is for.

Answer 1

Dreamweaver is a WYSIWYG editor, for making websites. It also includes an FTP client, image editor (for small adjustments), file browser and a bunch of other stuff.



It does NOT make websites by itself...this is how it gets a bad name...people assume that because it costs so much, it should spit out whatever is in their head with little to no effort. If you don't understand how to write website code, Dreamweaver will be of little to no use to you. You may be able to come up with SOMETHING, but it will be a car wreck on the information super highway.



I still use it for my designs, because it gets everything together pretty efficiently. I like being able to hit a few key and bam, it's on the server. It's also good for finding bugs and what not.



What I do NOT do is use it to drag-and-drop a site. I still use it like it is a trumped up version of Notepad (it essentially is). I don't use any of the packaged templates, and I don't mess around with any of the packaged code. I also don't plan on buying any updates or new releases for it, since I'll readily acknowledge that everything I do with Dreamweaver, can be done with basic free tools that are easily procured.



Adobe makes the most money on Dreamweaver from people who don't know what they are doing, and expect the software to do it for them. It doesn't. Also, the Design View on Dreamweaver is essentially garbage. I don't use it for anything (another reason why I won't be purchasing it twice).



The site management tools are nice. It has it's own rudimentary version of source control, and as soon as you open a site, you can be linked into the FTP client. Things like that make it convenient, but not necessary.

Answer 2

Dreamweaver is something to use to enhance the appearance of webpages. Unfortunately it does not understand all tag languages so it may mess up tags that run webpage logic. XHTML and Tag Attribute Language, TAL, are compatible. DTML and DHTML are not.

Answer 3

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, who acquired Macromedia in 2005.



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, ColdFusion, and PHP.



# Its feature

Although a hybrid WYSIWYG and code-based web design and development application, Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG mode can hide the HTML code details of pages from the user, making it possible for non-coders to create web pages and sites. One criticism of this approach is that it has the potential to produce HTML pages whose file size and amount of HTML code is larger than an optimally hand-coded page would be, which can cause web browsers to perform poorly. This can be particularly true because the application makes it very easy to create table-based layouts. In addition, some web site developers have criticized Dreamweaver in the past for producing code that often does not comply with W3C standards, though recent versions have been more compliant. Dreamweaver 8.0 performed poorly on the Acid2 Test, developed by the Web Standards Project. However, Adobe has focused on support for standards-based layout in recent and current versions of the application, including the ability to convert tables to layers.



Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. It also has site management tools, such as FTP/SFTP and WebDAV file 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 utilize third-party "Extensions" to enable and 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.



Like other HTML editors, Dreamweaver edits files locally, then uploads all edited files to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver#Syntax_highlighting



- Taken from Wikipedia.org





Here's about Dreamweaver http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

Answer 4

It's a combination of text editor and web browser - for people who have too much money and not enough knowledge of how to build web sites. It lets you "build" a "site" by drag&drop and clicking a few buttons. (I've seen better sites built by high school kids using Notepad.) Once you understand how to build a site you don't bother with it.