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Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Improvements

Improvements
Dreamweaver 8 brings a lot to the table. First and foremost, for the developer, this installment brings Dreamweaver as clo …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Coding Toolbar

Coding Toolbar
The gutter now holds a wealth of handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Pasting from Wo ...

Pasting from Word?
Have you ever received copy from Marketing? From a user with Word? Dreamweaver now has Paste and Paste Special. Neve …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Comment/Uncomm ...

Comment/Uncomment
Now you want to drop a number of preformatted types of comments in to your document. Type your comment, select the ty …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Code Collapsing

Code Collapsing
It’s back! If you’ve been using Homesite (or, heaven forbid, CF Studio) all this time, it never left; but f …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Workspaces

Workspaces
Much improved workspace layouts make working in Dreamweaver 8 very easy. Previous versions offered either “Coder” …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Tag Completion

Tag Completion
Last but certainly not least, one of my favorite improved features in Dreamweaver 8 is the tag completion functionality. …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – New Stuff

New Stuff
CSS
Dreamweaver offers great new support for CSS. The unified CSS panel puts all aspects of using, learning, and mastering CS …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Background File ...

Background File Transfer
Ever configure a site so that the remote site was an ftp site somewhere? Did you ever save a file and have to …

Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed – Perfect, Right?

Perfect, Right?
This new Dreamweaver has one major thing going against it: an issue that has been the bane of Dreamweaver users for as …

Dreamweaver 8 Does Standards

If you’re reading this article, you probably already have an interest in the subject of “Web standards,” and are curi …

Review – Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Another year, another version of Dreamweaver. The Big Question, as always: should you fork out for the update? Well, if you use CSS in …

Customize Dreamweaver to Your Needs

Cartoonists pick and choose their pens. Contractors select their wood. Teachers decorate their classrooms. Why can’t developers c …

Animation in Dreamweaver

Macromedia’s Flash and Adobe’s Live Motion have stolen much of the spotlight for animation. “Hey,” the pr …

Animation in Dreamweaver – Step 2

To animate the CompanyLogo layer you created earlier, we’ll have to add it to the Timeline. To do this, select the layer and drag …

Animation in Dreamweaver – Adding Extra ...

Adding Extra Keyframes
Not all animations move in a straight line. What if the animation of the Company-Logo needs to shoot from one si …

Animation in Dreamweaver – Timeline Beha ...

Timeline Behaviors
Unlike the first animation, the Autoplay and Loop checkboxes will not be se-lected. Instead, we’ll use a Behav …

Easy Flash with Dreamweaver

It seems that every page you visit on the Web uses Flash in some way or another — whether it’s an intro movie, or groovy bu …

Using Flash text

Select the Flash Text button. This opens the dialog window for the Flash Text control. You’ll see in the figure below that the wi …

Flash Text Properties and Buttons

Flash Text Properties Panel
The Properties Panel is slightly modified for the specifics of Flash Text in Dreamweaver. Image D shows the …

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