Dreamweaver® CS3 Bible

Chapter 1. What's New in Dreamweaver CS3

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Moving into Web 2.0 with Spry

• Connecting to Photoshop and Bridge

• Improving CSS designs and productivity

• Implementing improvements everywhere

Safe to say, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is the most highly anticipated release of the world's most popular Web authoring tool in recent memory. Why? First, and most critically, this is the first version of Dreamweaver since Adobe acquired Macromedia. Designers for both the graphic and Web industries have been wondering anxiously what changes this combination of software powerhouses would bring. Would Photoshop and Dreamweaver finally begin to work together? Would Dreamweaver become an Adobe interface clone? Would Dreamweaver even make the cut and continue to be produced—or would more and more Web designers around the world need to learn how to "go live"?

The answer to the last question should be self-evident by the very book you're holding in your hands. Dreamweaver has been welcomed into the Adobe family with open arms and fully integrated into the Creative Suites. You'll find the other answers later in this chapter.

Another factor fueling the anticipation is the wave of new design possibilities and standards-based implementations—collectively known as Web 2.0—that have significantly reshaped the Web designer's world since the previous version of Dreamweaver was released. As you'll see in this chapter and throughout the book, the Dreamweaver team has accepted the technological challenge and responded ...