Product Description

Item #: 12489D. Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications - from start to finish - with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Contribute CS3 software ensures efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

Product Description
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - web design / publishing
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Language(s): Universal English
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 38040334
• Released on: 2007-04-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .85 pounds

Features

• The ideal solution for quickly and easily designing, developing, and maintaining websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment
• Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts
• Build and maintain web applications using the latest development technologies, including Ajax, PHP, and Adobe ColdFusion
• Incorporate Adobe Flash Video into websites and applications with five clicks of a mouse
• Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow

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Design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications--from start to finish--with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with related Adobe software ensures an efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment.

Easily set up CSS layouts, such as the three-column layout with header and footer, using the New Document dialog box.

The CSS layout-visualization feature helps you keep track of complex nesting schemes in your web pages.

With Dreamweaver CS3 you can easily copy and paste images from Photoshop and Fireworks, and later edit them in the original software.

Adobe Device Central lets you preview how your web pages will look on mobile devices.

The Spry framework for Ajax lets you add user interface components such as the expandable areas seen in the Event information (open) and Event Directions (closed) regions here.

Create rich web content
A higher standard in web design and development is emerging, powered by Dreamweaver CS3. Create rich, dynamic interfaces that tightly weave static structures together with responsive interactivity. Use the new Spry framework for Ajax to develop energetic web experiences that will leave your competition standing still. In other words, think deep, dream big, and then execute flawlessly with the most exciting web design and development tool we've ever devised.

Maximize efficiency
Accelerate your workflow with Dreamweaver CS3, a faster, smoother version of the preferred web design and development tool. Drop in FLV files, add images from Adobe Photoshop, and test your content for mobile devices. Create visually or code directly, work on your choice of Macintosh or Windows, and enjoy the benefits of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools.

Apply best practices
Dreamweaver CS3 makes it easy to apply best practices and accepted standards to ensure your websites and applications play well with others. Build CSS-based websites from the ground up with new CSS layouts, the unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization and management tools. Ensure more reliable and consistent performance with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Instantly preview your content for PCs, mobile devices, and print, and find fast solutions to browser-specific CSS issues with the new CSS Advisor website.

Audience Benefit

Web designers--Discover an exceptional web design workflow with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Design and maintain websites from start to finish with your choice of either a powerful visual design interface or an efficient coding environment. Streamline design with helpful CSS features; preview your pages for PCs, mobile devices, and print; and easily test pages for browser compatibility. Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Fireworks CS3, and other Adobe tools.

Web developers--Develop more reliable, consistent web applications based on universally accepted development standards with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, and Ajax, for both internal and external projects. Ensure consistency with helpful CSS features and automated cross-browser compatibility testing.

Comments embedded in the code offer tips about how to work with CSS.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Industry-leading tool
Take advantage of all the flexibility and power of a world-class web design tool. Manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, craft complex code in Code view, or do a little of each. Work the way you work best.

Integrated workflows
Design, develop, and maintain content within Dreamweaver CS3 while taking advantage of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, and new Adobe Device Central CS3 for creating mobile device content.

Complete CSS support
Discover the advantage of visual CSS tools that make it easy to view, edit, and move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check.

Integrated coding environment
Organize and accelerate your coding with code collapse, color coding, line numbering, and a coding toolbar with comment/uncomment and code snippets. Apply code hints for HTML and server languages.

Support for leading technologies
Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Effortless XML
Quickly integrate XML content using either XSL or the Spry framework for Ajax. Point to an XML file or XML feed URL, and Dreamweaver CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.

Adobe Flash Video support
Easily add Flash Video to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Flash required. Customize the video environment to match your website.

Learning resources
Learn as you go with comprehensive in-product tutorials, reference content, and instructional templates that make it easy to expand your skill set and adopt the latest technologies.

Extended Dreamweaver community
Enjoy all the benefits of the extensive Dreamweaver community, including the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Center, training and seminars, developer certification programs, user forums, and more than 1,000 downloadable extensions available in the Dreamweaver Exchange.

Cross-platform support
Pick your platform: Dreamweaver CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred platform and then deliver across platforms with more reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

Browser Compatibility Check identifies CSS-related issues in different operating systems.

Additional Features

Browser Compatibility Check
Save time and ensure a more consistent experience across browsers and operating systems with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Generate reports that identify CSS-related issues in a variety of browsers, without needing to launch the browsers.

CSS management
Easily move CSS code from inline to head, from head to external sheet, from document to document, or between external sheets. Cleaning up existing CSS in older pages has never been easier.

CSS layouts
Easily incorporate CSS into your project with the new CSS layouts. Extensive comments in each template explain the layout, so beginning and intermediate designers can learn quickly. Each template can be customized for your project.

Spry data
Integrate data into web pages using XML from an RSS feed or a database. Integrated data can be easily sorted and filtered.

Spry widgets
Easily add common interface components such as lists, tables, tabs, form validation, and repeatable regions to web pages with widgets from the Spry framework for Ajax.

Spry effects
Easily add visual transitions to page elements to make them grow, shrink, fade, highlight, and more with the Spry effects for Ajax.

Customer Reviews

Dreamweaver 8 Now Comes in a CS3 Box
I strongly suggest DW8 users download the free DWCS3 demo from Adobe and see what you think--before you buy. Three stars because it's good old Dreamweaver, but two taken away because it's not an improvement.

There are some new toys to play with, but the old dog is still sick. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 should be called "Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.5 Ajax." The new CS3 interface is not part of Dreamweaver, and it seems nothing at all was done to fix the existing problems or improve the core application. I'm about a week solid into using DWCS3, and for all intents and purposes, this is Dreamweaver 8. Calling it "CS3" is marketing and nothing more. The code has the same bugs, the program still locks up or crashes occasionally, and the FTP is every bit as slow and error prone as before.

There are a few integration tweaks to allow use with the CS3 suite, but they're not much more than menu options to open other Adobe apps. Opening the Adobe apps independently in CS2 and Studio 8 was the same as using them "from within" Dreamweaver CS3. The Ajax Spry tools are going to be a great thing for the advanced users, and the CSS tools are better than before, but plugins and third party apps do a lot of these things better. The "advanced" Photoshop integration is little more than improved cut & paste operations, and it crashed DW on me twice.

I think it's somewhat dishonest to charge DW8 users full upgrade price to get DWCS3. Dreamweaver is a good program, but it's still broken and it needs fixing. I'm assuming Adobe wasn't ready to go to market with Dreamweaver, but it was time for CS3 in the Adobe life cycle. If they had put GoLive in the same box with Flash and not included Dreamweaver the fans would have rioted, so they spat this thing out prematurely to finish the set. As a full version upgrade this is a supreme disappointment.

Not much improvement over DW8
CS3 adds the Spry AJAX tools and a some new pre-built CSS layout templates, but in reality, similar javascript and CSS code can easily be found for free with a simple Google search. Beyond that, there really isn't much else in terms of new features over the previous Dreamweaver 8. Also, I dare say it has introduced several bugs, or maybe they are just annoying new "features".

For example, when you open up a site, half the time the entire root folder is collapsed, forcing you to have to re-open it each time. There seems to be no pattern to this behavior, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Also, the root folder has this weird habit of disappearing under the local files bar after a few seconds. So if I open a site and don't un-collapse the root folder within 2 seconds, then entire thing disappears under the bar, forcing me to hit the site refresh button to get it back. VERY ANNOYING!!!!

Another thing that bothers me is the copy/paste from Word. I get a lot of documents sent to me in Word that I need to convert to HTML. DW8 did a pretty decent job of converting Word to HTML, but CS3 seems to get a lot more wrong; I actually have to do significantly more "clean up" work now when I do a cut/paste from Word, it is especially bad when it comes to converting lists when compared to DW8.

Even if the bugs were addressed in a patch, I think that overall, this is a very disappointing "upgrade", there really isn't anything compelling enough to justify moving from DW8. I would give this 5-stars if it was an upgrade from Dreamweaver MX, but as an upgrade from Dreamweaver 8, it's simply not worth your time.

I love it! Sweet!
I previously used version 4 of Dreamweaver. I only used it on a basic level because I never really studied how to use its features. Then I got Dreamweaver CS3. The first time I launched it, it looked very bizarre and perplexing. Then I got Garrick Chow's "Dreamweaver CS3 Essentials" video tutorial from lynda.com. I highly recommend it! It makes it so much easier and fun to see demonstrated how to use the features. I also recommend following along doing the exercises on your own copy of Dreamweaver CS3 while you watch him do them. I love Dreamweaver CS3. It has so many features that makes things so much easier. I recently had to create some new web pages based on someone else's existing web site and its several long, complicated style sheets. Dreamweaver made it easy to track down all the style rules that various tags were using. I would've been lost without that feature. And Dreamweaver has so many other helpful, powerful features. OK it's not perfect, especially the WYSIWYG design screen part of it, but I would NOT want to create web pages without it! It has saved me SO much time! I really don't care if it's not much different from version 8 because I never used that version anyway. So I don't think that's a valid criticism to make. If you have version 8, then just don't buy CS3! CS3 is definitely radically different and far superior to the version 4 I was using. I haven't noticed much in the way of bugs yet either. The only problem I had so far is that on Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG design screen, sometimes some things don't look the way they're supposed to. But that's not a big deal, because it takes me less than a second to go to my browser and see how the page looks there. The design screen at least gives you a reasonably good idea of whether you're going on the right track with your coding. Also, even when you're working in the code view, you still have many powerful dreamweaver features to help you get stuff done faster and easier.