Review Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 v9.0

DEVELOP WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS
Discover Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software, which now includes CSS tools, Ajax components for building dynamic user interfaces, and intelligent integration with other Adobe software.


What is Dreamweaver CS3?
Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications — from start to finish — with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Contribute CS3 software ensures efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

Top features

Industry-leading tool
Take advantage of all the flexibility and power of a world-class web design tool. Manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, craft complex code in Code view, or do a little of each. Work the way you work best.

Integrated workflows
Design, develop, and maintain content within Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 while taking advantage of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, and new Adobe Device Central CS3 for creating mobile device content.

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Complete CSS support
Discover the advantage of visual CSS tools that make it easy to view, edit, and move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check.

Integrated coding environment
Organize and accelerate your coding with code collapse, color coding, line numbering, and a coding toolbar with comment/uncomment and code snippets. Apply code hints for HTML and server languages.

Support for leading technologies
Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Effortless XML
Quickly integrate XML content using either XSL or the Spry framework for Ajax. Point to an XML file or XML feed URL, and Dreamweaver CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.

FLV support
Easily add FLV files to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Flash required. Customize the video environment to match your website.

Learning resources
Learn as you go with comprehensive in-product tutorials, reference content, and instructional templates that make it easy to expand your skill set and adopt the latest technologies.

Extended Dreamweaver community
Enjoy all the benefits of the extensive Dreamweaver community, including the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Center, training and seminars, developer certification programs, user forums, and more than 1,000 downloadable extensions available in the Dreamweaver Exchange.

Cross-platform support
Pick your platform: Dreamweaver CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred platform and then deliver across platforms with more reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

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Great Free Software Tools To Use For Photo Printing

If you want to improve the quality of your photo printing or find fun ways to turn your photos into printed works of art, the following free software tools can be a great way to start.

Kodak Easyshare Software

This free printer software provides a lot of features that can help you make better use of your photos once you’ve added them to your computer. Here are a few examples:

• Tagging and rating of your photos to make searching for the ones you want easier using the software’s built-in photo search feature
• Correcting red eye – one of the most common photo problems – can be done with the touch of a button
• Cropping and rotating photos can be done easily
• You can choose photos and blend them with music into a video that can be shared with friends and family
• Use the software to send photos to be printed or to your own photo printer

Picasa

This free photo software comes to you from Google which has a reputation of releasing some outstanding products. Here are some reasons to give this one a test drive:

• Scans your computer to locate your photos even if they are scattered in a bunch of different folders and drives
• Lets you change the photo file names easily even for a group of pictures at one time
• Creates albums that you can use to organize and share your photos more easily and conveniently
• Gives you the option to add password protection to some of your photo albums in case you want to save their contents for select audiences


IrfanView

If you want to work with a free photo software that has a long reputation, this is one is definitely worth considering. It has been around since 2003 and is still going strong thanks to a simple-to-use interface and features like the following:

• Lets you copy, crop and edit photos easily
• Gives you the option of creating slideshows using your photos – the finished product can be saved as an executable file and/or burned to a CD-Rom
• Allows you to add effects, such as blur, to your images
• Makes it easy to work with batches of images at one time

ADG Panorama Tools

You’ve taken some great pictures and now you want to use them in a unique and creative way that can be shared with others on the Internet? This free software gives you the option to do that.

• Combines multiple photos into a single 360 degree panorama shot seamlessly
• The panorama can be viewed as a moving image on a web site that is created for you through the software
• Create hotspots and add hyperlinks throughout the image so visitors can learn more about the individual shots or find other useful information relevant to the photos

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