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Create rich web content
Combine static content with responsive interactivity to create rich, dynamic websites. Use the exciting new Spry framework for Ajax.
Spry framework for Ajax
- 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
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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.
Open server and technology support
- 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 Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.
Maximize efficiency
Create visually or code directly, easily add FLV files, and enjoy intelligent integration with other Adobe software.
Integrated workflows
- Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks integration. Copy and paste directly from Adobe Photoshop® CS3 or Adobe Fireworks® CS3 into Dreamweaver CS3 to leverage assets from your prototype in your finished project.
- FLV support. Easily add FLV files to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Adobe Flash® required. Customize the video environment to match your website.
- Adobe Device Central CS3. Design, preview, and test mobile device content using Adobe Device Central, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite® 3.
- Adobe Bridge CS3. Enjoy a more efficient workflow with Adobe Bridge CS3, the hub of Adobe Creative Suite 3, which offers central access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
Additional features
- 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.
- Text and code import. Quickly import text or code from other applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Word. (Microsoft Office 12 is supported.) Retain original formatting, or apply CSS from the destination file.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Apply best practices
Easily apply accepted standards for CSS, and test browser compatibility to ensure your websites and web applications are more reliable and consistent.
Complete CSS support
- 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.
- 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 Advisor website. Find fast solutions to browser-specific CSS issues with the new CSS Advisor website, an online community featuring a wealth of user-contributed solutions and insight.
- 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.
- Unified CSS panel. View CSS information in a single, unified CSS panel that makes it easy to see the styles applied to a specific element, identify where attributes are defined, and edit existing styles without entering Code view.
- CSS layout visualization. Apply visual aids, such as outlines and shading, in CSS layouts to easily visualize complex nesting schemes and to select sections for editing. Select a layout to see parameters in a pop-up window, including ID, padding, margin, and border settings.
- Style Rendering toolbar. View content just as end users will see it, regardless of how it's delivered. Use the Style Rendering toolbar to preview your design in simulations of a PC screen, handheld device, or printout.
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