Adobe Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is one of the most popular professional web development software packages available. It offers power and flexibility to create pages that meet your needs. I use it for everything from JSP, XHTML, PHP, and XML development. It is a good choice for professional web designers and developers, but if you're working as a solitary freelancer, you might want to look at one of the Creative Suite suites like Web Premium or Design Premium to get graphics editing capability and other features like Flash editing as well. There are a few features that Dreamweaver CS5 lacks, some have been missing for a long time, and others (like HTML validation and photo galleries) were removed in CS5.

Target Market(s): Professional Web Designers or Professional Web Developers

Review last updated: November 2, 2010.

Adobe Dreamweaver Version: CS5
Score: 235
Percent: 76%

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Operating System(s): Windows Macintosh

Features:

• Text editor
• WYSIWYG editor
• CSS validator
• XML validator
• Page preview
• Alternate browser or OS preview
• Wireless device preview
• Wireless scripts, functions, or links
• Save pages as XHTML with DTD
• Save pages as HTML with DTD
• Color coding
• Tag completion
• FTP or Site manager
• FTPs or Secure FTP
• Search and replace
• Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
• Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
• Edit images
• Connects to graphics software
• Multimedia functions
• Save Adobe AIR files
• Special character tools
• Can edit JavaScript
• Helps with Ajax JSON, or JQuery pages
• Can edit CSS
• Additional CSS assistance
• Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
• Dynamic page rendering and editing
• Database connectivity
• Edit XML and/or RSS
• Spell checking
• Save snippets of code
• Free templates
• Free scripts
• Form wizard
• Version control
• Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
• Customizable or extendable
• No limitation (beyond a possible time limit) on sites/pages built with the free trial
• Does not require subscription
• HTML validator has been removed in CS5 — But it still connects to external validators if you have them
• Ecommerce and site maps with extensions
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 have a free extension from Adobe to add them
• Link checker only checks onsite links

Dreamweaver CS5 is a good editor, but there are also some features missing from the list. What would you like to see added to Dreamweaver?

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