Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software empowers designers and developers to build standards-based websites with confidence. Design visually or directly in code, develop pages with content management systems, and accurately test browser compatibility thanks to integration with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 – Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications
Dreamweaver CS5 Features
Build standards-based websites with the industry-leading web authoring tool. Work visually or directly in code, design productively with CSS inspection tools, and develop with content management systems.
Adobe Creative Suite integration (enhanced)
Save time and reduce the number of steps required to complete projects with intelligent integration across Adobe® Flash® Professional, Fireworks®, Photoshop® Extended, and Adobe CS Live online services.
Intelligent coding assistance
Write clean code faster than ever. Take advantage of code hinting with HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax frameworks such as Spry, jQuery, and Prototype. Get direct insight into core PHP functions, methods, and objects with dynamic PHP code hinting.
Integrate FLV content ( enhanced)
Add FLV files to any web page with point-and-click ease and standards-compliant coding. Preview your movies with FLV playback capabilities in Live View.
Support for leading technologies
Design and develop in an environment that supports most leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion® software, and ASP.
Extended Dreamweaver community (enhanced)
Learn and share with an extensive Dreamweaver community. Benefit from the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Connection, training and seminars, developer certification programs, and user forums.
Dreamweaver CS5 for web design projects
Create standards-based websites with confidence. Use powerful visual CSS tools and ready-built templates, test your pages quickly and accurately, and save time with intelligent integration across Adobe Creative Suite software.
Integrated CMS support (new)
Enjoy authoring and testing support for content management system frameworks like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal. Dynamically Related Files provides direct access to a page’s related files, even for dynamic pages, and Live View Navigation offers accurate previews of dynamic applications.
Adobe BrowserLab integration ( new)
Preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 integrates with BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service that quickly and accurately tests web content across browsers and operating systems. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
CSS inspection (new)
Visually display the CSS box model in detail and easily toggle CSS properties without reading code or needing to use a separate utility.
CSS starter pages (enhanced)
Jump-start your standards-based website design with updated and simplified CSS Starter Layouts. With a wider selection to choose from, the new templates incorporate evolving CSS best practices and easy-to-understand selectors and rules.
Simple site setup (enhanced)
Set up a site faster than ever with the retooled Dreamweaver Site Definition dialog box. Add multiple servers with custom names to utilize staged, networked, or other site types.
Dreamweaver CS5 for web applications
Build standards-based websites with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools, featuring intelligent coding assistance and support for leading technologies and frameworks. Learn and share with an extensive developer community.
PHP custom class code hinting (new)
Display proper syntax for custom PHP functions to help you write code more accurately. Rapidly build and maintain applications, and get direct insight into core PHP functions, methods, and objects with dynamic PHP code hinting.
Subversion support (enhanced)
Manage site files more effectively in collaborative, version-controlled environments with enhanced support for Subversion® software. Move, copy, and delete files locally as you would a normal, static website, and then synchronize changes with your remote SVN repository.
Site-specific code hinting (new)
Benefit from code hinting on nonstandard files and directories in Dreamweaver CS5, enabling enhanced hinting support for third-party PHP libraries and CMS frameworks such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla!.