Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium All-in-One for Dummies®

Chapter 1. Getting Familiar with New Features in Dreamweaver

In This Chapter

• Looking at the new interface

• Discovering the improved Property inspector panel

• Looking at Photoshop support

• Understanding the Browser Compatibility Check and CSS Advisor

• Using Live View, Code Navigator, and Spry widgets

• Jumping to related documents

• Finding out about the improved CSS capabilities

Dreamweaver CS4 lets you create and manage single pages, such as e-mail newsletters or groups of pages that are linked to each other, referred to as a site. Users can create basic Web sites with simple links from one page to another or advanced Web sites that include custom coding and interaction with those viewing the pages.

Since being included as part of the Adobe Creative Suite, Dreamweaver CS4 has been made to work better than ever with other Adobe applications, such as Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Bridge, and Device Central. Even if you've never used Dreamweaver, you'll be impressed with the many tools, panels, and powerful features that make Web-page building easy and intuitive.

If you're a GoLive user, moving to Dreamweaver is actually a smooth transition. Dreamweaver CS4 is an industry-standard Web site creation and management tool, with the tools needed to do advanced coding or create data-driven Web sites.

All New CS4 Interface

New and previous Dreamweaver users alike will be excited to see the new interface that's been put into place in Dreamweaver CS4, as shown in Figure 1-1. A more streamlined, easy-to-organize ...