Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 (PC)

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
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 favourite t...

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Manufacturer's Description:
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 favourite tools.

Web designers can 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.

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.

Discover Dreamweaver CS3 and its full complement of new features, including CSS tools, Ajax components for building dynamic user interfaces, and intelligent integration with other Adobe software.

Key features:
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, colour 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.

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-06-08 rating:
Great for Would be Designers & Professionals alike
I can't praise this product enough. If you are looking to create state of the art websites with CSS, etc. then Dreamweaver is the software to own. All the hard coding is done for you well you use the design view to add anything you desire.

I have a lot to do to my sites yet but I managed to create and publish my very first webpage within 2 days of uploading the software to my computer. It downloaded on Windows Vista Home Premium within 10 minutes with no problems at all.

Just a tip for beginners, check out YouTube for Dreamweaver CS3 Tutorials. You will learn all the basics there and it beats any manual or book.

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review by: Whizzkid date: 2008-05-28 rating:
What are you waiting for! Buy it!
I bought Dreamweaver CS3 six months ago after only having gained a rudimentary knowledge of how to build websites from books. I knew what I wanted to build and at first I attempted to use other web building software packages which were far cheaper than Dreamweaver CS3 but which turned out to be far more complicated and time consuming to use and which to be honest were a total waste of money!

Dreamweaver CS3 installed on my Vista PC without any problems and I was soon up and running. From the outset I found all the menus extremely intuitive and marvelled at how quickly I was able to build web pages which looked highly professional. I was also impressed with the way Dreamweaver could check my pages for broken links and other errors which would normally be extremely time consuming to find. Indeed I was so impressed with Dreamweaver that I invested in Photoshop CS3 which I found worked seemlessly with Dreamweaver CS3 and made editing pictures for the website alot easier.

Therefore whether you are an amateur or a professional Dreamweaver CS3 is the best software for building great websites. Dreamweaver CS3 is not a cheap product but in this case it is true that you get what you pay for and what you get with Dreamweaver CS3 is a whole lot of product for your money.

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review by: jon_in_sussex date: 2008-05-12 rating:
This is still the best - but its way to pricey
Dreamweaver is still the best web design app out there, especially when combined with Fireworks. For designers who are a bit shaky with code (like me!), it is great and there isn't much you can't achieve with it. My only criticism is that it is way too expensive for what it is. Fine - £400 isn't much if you are going to make lots of money with it, but for occasional use, it is expensive. Also, it isn't the most user friendly app. There is a steepish learning curve to get to grips with it.

Alot of my working time these days is spent on a Mac and I tend to use the excellent Freeway Express package which is nice to use and does pretty much all I want or need - for only £60! There are similar packages out there from the likes of Serif for the PC.

You can't not recommend Dreamweaver, but I would recommend checking out the easier to use and cheaper alternatives first. They maybe all you need.

BTW - it would have 5 stars if the price was better

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review by: david ellis date: 2008-05-09 rating:
Could not install successfully on Windows Vista.
I could not manage to get this product successfully installed. I work in software myself, so am computer literate, but after six hours of trying I could not get it installed, despite following published tips and work-arounds from Adobe. I was left with a mysterious "Internal error 2203", but no clue as to how to fix this. Worse, this left the product half installed, so that it would not even uninstall cleanly, without running a special clean-up script. For £400 I expect better. I have now given up and am using Microsoft Expression Web instead, which installed in five minutes.


review by: al_sutton date: 2008-01-10 rating:
Do not buy this in the UK
If you buy it in the US (or from a US store) you will save around 150 to 200 pounds. Adobe are ripping you off.

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