Features

Features

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design and development application that provides a visual WYSIWYG editor (colloquially known as the Design view) and code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more advanced features such as real-time syntax checking and code introspection to generate code instructions to help users write code. Design view layout facilitates rapid design and manufacture of such codes allows users to quickly create the layout and manipulation of HTML elements. Dreamweaver has a feature integrated browser for viewing web pages developed its own program in the preview window that allows content to open in the web browser pre-installed. This application provides transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code to search for words or phrases used throughout the site, and a templating feature that allows for the sharing of the source code or update the layout throughout the site without the server side includes or scripting . Behavior 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 use third-party extensions to extend the 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 web development from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping cart.

Dreamweaver, like other HTML editor, edit the file locally and then uploaded to a remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion version control system (SVN).