Dreamweaver 8

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Dreamweaver 8

• Nariman Mohammed
• Oct 18, 2005

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Objective

• Introduction to Macromedia
• Macromedia Studio 8
• Dreamweaver 8
• Versions
• New Features
• System Requirements
• Pricing
• Reviews
• Tutorial
• References

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Macromedia

• It is a graphics and web development software
  house Macromedia was formed by the 1992 merger of
  Authorware, Inc. (makers of Authorware) and
  MacroMind-Paracomp (makers of Macromind
  Director). Its headquarters are in San Francisco,
  California.

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Macromedia Studio 8

• Studio 8 offers tremendous value and benefit to
  design, develop, and maintain using development
  tools with similar interfaces and time-saving
  round-trip media integration. With five products
  in one suite, Studio 8 offers rich functionality
  and cross-product workflows to create, code, and
  collaborate quickly.
• Studio 8 Products
• Dream weaver 8
• Flash Professional 8
• Fireworks 8
• Contribute 3
• Flash Paper 2

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Dreamweaver 8

• It is an HTML editor developed by Macromedia.
• It was originally targeted at professional web
  designers and offers an editing system that
  combines both the productivity of WYSIWYG design
  with the control of HTML code editing mode.
• This combination was quite unique in late 1990s
  and helped Dreamweaver to a widespread adoption.

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• Dreamweaver can hide the details of page HTML
  code from the user, making it possible for
  non-experts to easily create web pages and sites
• Allows user to pick most browsers installed on
  his computer to preview websites.
• It allows users to connect to databases (such as
  mySQL) to filter and display content using
  scripting technologies such as PHP, ASP, and
  ASP.net, without any previous programming
  experience

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Versions

• Dreamweaver 1.0 (Released December 1997)
• Dreamweaver 1.2 (followed in March 1998)
• Dreamweaver 2.0 (Released December 1998)
• Dreamweaver 3.0 (Released December 1999)
• Dreamweaver UltraDev 1.0 (Released December 1999)
  
• Dreamweaver 4.0 (Released December 2000)
• Dreamweaver UltraDev 4.0 (Released December 2000)
  
• Dreamweaver MX (Released May 2002)
• Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Released September 10, 2003)
  
• Dreamweaver 8 (Released on September 13, 2005)

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New Features In Dreamweaver 8

• Add video easily
• Visual authoring with XML data
• New, unified CSS panel
• CSS layout visualization
• Style rendering toolbar
• CSS rendering improvements
• Improved WebDAV
• Background file transfer
• Zoom
• Guides
• Coding toolbar
• Code collapse
• Workspace layouts

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Quick tour

• Dreamweaver

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System Requirements

• Windows
• 800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or
  equivalent) and later
• Windows 2000, Windows XP
• 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one
  Studio 8 product simultaneously)
• 1024 x 768, 16-bit display (32-bit recommended)
• 650 MB available disk space
• Macintosh
• 600 MHz PowerPC G3 and later
• Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4
• 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one
  Studio 8 product simultaneously)
• 1024 x 768, thousands of colors display (millions
  of colors recommended)
• 300 MB available disk space
• This product must be activated over the Internet
  prior to use.

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Different Languages

• Dreamweaver 8 available in English, French,
  German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified
  Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.

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Pricing

• Free trail for 30 days
• The suggested retail price of Dreamweaver 8 is
  399(US).
• The upgrade price is only 199(US).
• If you brought Dreamweaver MX 2004 between July
  9,2005 and 60 days after Dreamweaver 8 begins
  shipping, you may be eligible for free upgrade.

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Reviews

• CreativePro by David Karlins
• "Dreamweaver 8's inclusion of important new
  tools for CSS page design and XML embedding and
  styling make the application worth buying.
  Dreamweaver 8 is also more designer friendly,
  with zooming, layout guides, and updated browser
  testing.
• CreativePro by Luisa Simone also said

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• "CSS is central to modern Web design.
  Dreamweaver 8's new visualization options clarify
  the underlying structure of CSS documents by
  displaying borders and/or differently color
  backgrounds for each div and positioned element. 
  Dreamweaver 8 abounds with small improvements
  that may deliver big productivity gains.
  Something as simple as background file transfer
  means that you can continue to work while files
  are synchronized between the local site and the
  server. Dreamweaver's new zoom function (up to
  6400) and custom guides combine to give
  designers unprecedented feedback on HTML layouts."

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• DevX By Rich Shupe
• "A new unified CSS panel, as well as CSS
  rendering improvements, makes working with CSS a
  lot more enjoyable. XML gets a boost, too, with a
  new visualization engine that simplifies XML
  editing.
• CNET
• Good Easier XML and CSS integration
  rollovers and collapsible code views background
  file transfers better preview rendering.
• Bad Web-design novices might find this tool
  hard to use without first getting schooled on its
  features some small interface quirks haven't
  been fixed.

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Attend a Free Seminar

• Join these live, one-hour online seminars to see
  what's new in Studio 8 product suite. Choose from
  any of the following topics
• Introduction to Dreamweaver 8
• Best Practices A closer look at CSS and XML in
  Dreamweaver 8
• Introduction to Flash Professional 8
• Easy web video with Flash Professional 8 and
  Dreamweaver 8

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Awards
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References

• CreativePro
• WWW.DevX.com
• WWW.CNET.COM

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Resources

• To download a free trail visit
• www.macromedia.com
• To learn who to use Dreamweaver8 visit
  http//www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/artic
  les/dw_getting_started.html
• www.Wikipedia.com
• To view this presentation
• http//csmaster.sxu.edu/nmohammed

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Tutorial
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• Questions?