Preface
Websites evolve every year, growing in scope, capability, and complexity, making sites look and work ever better over time. Even people with personal sites use a collection of programming languages and server technologies to dish up their content.
Throughout its history, Dreamweaver has kept pace with the changing web-development landscape, and Adobe’s latest offering, Dreamweaver Creative Cloud, is no exception—it does more than any previous version of the program. Whether you want to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for cutting-edge site design, create JavaScript-powered dynamic web pages, incorporate HTML5, build websites for mobile devices, use content management systems like WordPress or Drupal, or simply stick to straightforward HTML, Dreamweaver has just about all the tools you need.
Any enterprising designer can create web pages, Cascading Style Sheets, and even JavaScript programs using just a simple text editor. In fact, Dreamweaver CC’s powerful text editor lets you handcraft files to create any kind of web file you want, from simple HTML content to complex database-powered web pages. However, typing in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code is not only a recipe for carpal tunnel syndrome, it’s a slow and typo-prone way to build web pages. Dreamweaver provides buttons, dialog boxes, and panels that let you add HTML, CSS, and JavaScript quickly, with fewer keystrokes. For example, in a matter of seconds, a simple button lets you insert the complex HTML required to insert ...
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