Introduction

“Ooooooo, Dreamweaver. I believe you can get me through the night.” Remember that song by Gary Wright? Okay, some of you weren’t born yet. The song brought up memories of seventh-grade dances for me. I’m glad that Dreamweaver, the software, came along and replaced that vision in my head. Dreamweaver, the software, has helped me through a number of nights developing websites and web applications!

I started using Dreamweaver when it first came out. Web page–editing tools were frustrating in that pre-Dreamweaver age. Many web developers were annoyed that some tools would rewrite or even delete some of the code they had just lovingly crafted. I remember one instance where I jumped up and down, stomping in my office, for almost five minutes ...

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