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Dreamweaver in a Nutshell
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Dreamweaver in a Nutshell

by Heather Williamson, Bruce A. Epstein
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
16h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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New Features in Dreamweaver 4

For those of you familiar with earlier versions of Dreamweaver, this book will bring you up to speed on the features added in Dreamweaver 4 (DW4). Also see the introduction to new features under Help What’s New (in DW’s Help menu).

New features include:

  • An integrated text editor used to edit HTML code manually

  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts for greater productivity

  • A JavaScript debugger, which helps to find and fix bugs in your scripts

  • Integrated editing of non-HTML code (such as code for ColdFusion and Active Server Pages)

  • Improved graphics editing tools and closer integration with Fireworks

  • A Table Layout view, which facilitates the use of tables for page layout

  • Improved template functionality, which allows greater control over how templates display dynamic information

  • The standard Macromedia User Interface, which leverages your familiarity with other Macromedia products and allows multiple panels to be docked inside one floating window

  • Simplified insertion of Flash and Shockwave documents

  • Better asset management through the Assets panel

  • Integrated email in the Site window for improved workgroup communication

  • Integration with version control systems, including Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning)

  • Site-wide reporting tools used to coordinate files within workgroups (File Check In and Check Out)

  • Improved Extension Manager (formerly the Package Manager) and enhanced extensions from the Macromedia Exchange ...

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