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What is Dreamweaver? Why is it such a popular web design tool?
Dreamweaver has become the industry standard web authoring tool, scaring off rivals like Microsoft FrontPage. It is a web design software with powerful features and an approachable interface which allows anyone who can use a computer kick off on a basic web project and, with a bit of patience and knowledge of a few fundamentals, develop a pretty keen web site. Dreamweaver has attained this first rate position because its creators from Adobe have always aimed to satisfy the needs of all the different types of users of their software.

They also enhanced their code environment with sophisticated features like line-numbering, colour-coding and code-hints and added other code-friendly features to supplement the visual development environment such as the tag selector which displays the HTML tags representing the objects on the page.

Dreamweaver CS4, the latest version of the program, also incorporates some great new features for adding Ajax functionality to web pages. Ajax offers web developers a way of creating web applications that execute rapidly and are seamlessly incorporated into the standard content of the web page. Coding Ajax web applications requires a good knowledge of JavaScript programming. Using Dreamweaver’s Spry Framework for Ajax, developers can create sophisticated Ajax applications without having to write the code themselves.

As new features are added to Dreamweaver with each new release, the program continues to have an interface which is user-friendly and approachable by any experienced computer user, bringing web development within reach of just about everybody on the planet. And it is this policy of satisfying the needs of professionals as well as beginners which will doubtless continue to make it the obvious choice for anyone wanting to develop web content at any level.

Resources

There are many tutorials available from the Adobe web site. Here are a few to help you get started: