A non-techie would be baffled at the behemoth number of tools on the welcome screen of Adobe Dreamweaver. The website creating and designing software has some of the best tools that can assist web designers in giving birth to a high-traffic alluring website. However, Dreamweaver is not your simple step by step, beginner-friendly software but once you get the hang of it, you can’t just refrain from giving everything that magical dream-like touch.
That sounds great but what exactly is Dreamweaver for? The Dreamweaver is more of a coming together of the other Adobe software, so while you might employ Photoshop to design and have it cut up for HTML, Dreamweaver, which is a flagship program integrates efficiently both HTML and CSS. Further, it can even manage all your files.
What set’s this software apart is the number of tools and they are actually aplenty. There’s a tool for every operation and if you are just starting out, give this baby a try and you are bound to have an edge over the others. Here are some of the functions that have earned brownie points from most of the wiz-kids.
The code highlighting function would really top the list, this enables the designer to scan the codes and reflect errors, if any. If you have a set of codes that are a mix of both HTML and other dynamic languages, then this is your best bet as it quickly zeroes in on the problematic areas. The code suggestion function again adds to the convenience as you do not have to really type in the entire code, as soon as you key in the initial letters of the tag, Dreamweaver throws up a list of relevant codes.
Take a look at the code and design view, this tool gives you a chance to see the step-by-step output, so if you are keying in a particular code, the design view would instantly reflect that. The browser is undoubtedly the best place to judge your output but the design view gives a pretty good basic first look.
The file managing option is what makes Dreamweaver so versatile, the fact that one can manage the files after setting up the site root and even upload it directly on the server comes very handy.
