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Beta Preview: Dreamweaver CS3

Tuesday 27 Mar 2007 - 05:06

Dreamweaver may have bested GoLive as the visual Web design tool of choice, but as an almost two-year-old nag, Dreamweaver 8 was near to being ready for the glue factory.

Its CSS design tools were unapproachable to users from a design background -- and there was no support for the underlying technology behind how many ‘Web 2.0’ applications, Ajax.

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Dreamweaver CS3 fixes both of these issues and makes them much easier for those of us who aren’t hardcore programmers to use them – though due to the complex nature of what CSS and Ajax are capable, working with the languages is never going to be as easy as old-school Web design in HTML.
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Fireworks, Adobe has skipped upgrading Dreamweaver's interface -- due to time pressures apparently -- which is a shame as it's one of the easiest to get messy from Adobe and Macromedia's combine creative toolsets.

CSS on CS3

Almost all Web sites currently use CSS – it saved designers and developers from having to lay out sites with horrible, slow, pain-in-the-arse systems such as tables and frames. However, as code it’s a generation more complex than HTML.

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To help newcomers take their first steps with CSS, Dreamweaver CS3

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Gmail and Flickr. Ajax allows parts of pages to be changed without refreshing the whole page, improving a site’s ease-of-use. It’s short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, but Adobe says that it’s Spry take on the technology is easy for designers to use, as it’s 99 per cent HTML.