Websites continue to evolve, growing in scope and complexity every year, with new features popping up to make the Web look and work better. Even people building personal websites use various programming languages and server technologies to dish up content. Throughout its history, Dreamweaver has managed to keep pace with this changing landscape.
Dreamweaver CS5 is no exception: It’s capable of doing more than any previous version. Whether you’re creating database-enabled PHP pages, using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for cutting-edge design effects, dipping into the dynamic world of JavaScript and AJAX, or simply sticking to straightforward HTML pages, Dreamweaver has just about all the tools you need.
Any enterprising designer can create web pages, Cascading Style Sheets, and even JavaScript programs with a simple text editor. In fact, Dreamweaver CS5 provides a powerful text editor that lets you handcraft basic text files or complex database-driven pages. But why go to all that trouble when Dreamweaver’s visual page-building approach, where you use friendly buttons, dialog boxes, and panels to create a web page, and let Dreamweaver tackle the hard chore of writing the underlying HTML code, makes creating beautiful and complex websites so much easier? Whether you’re new to building web pages or a hard-core, hand-coding HTML jockey, Dreamweaver is a powerful tool that lets you build websites quickly and efficiently, without compromising the quality of your code.
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