Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the sixth version of Macromedia's well respected web design suite. The name suggests little more than an updated version of last year's Dreamweaver MX, but this version offers plenty of improvements, with a revamped user interface plus added and updated features such as cross-browser code validation, integrated image editing, secure FTP and improved support for cascading style sheets (CSS), allowing layout and formatting to be applied easily across a website. The interface is similar enough to its predecessor for existing users to feel immediately at home, with the docking side panels present and correct. Now, however, there's ...  Read the complete review

Whilst my mother announced to me on the phone that she'd just gone and bought an MX-5, I had to content myself with the purchase of Dreamweaver MX - the successor to Dreamweaver 4, a product which I had used since its launch in late 2000, having grown-up with Dreamweaver - I remember using Dreamweaver 1.2 at the company I worked for in Brussels way way back... The entire MX range is effectively version six, with the Flash player being called Flash 6 player (it is a plug-in rather than a fully fledged software package). Following hot on the heels of Macromedia's Flash MX release, which marked the start of the whole new MX concept from Macromedia (to all ...  Read the complete review

Well this is the program I use to write webpages and edit others. The feature I find most useful is copying and pasting html then switching to the actualisation of the site to move bits and pieces, reshape and recolour the bits. Not being an expert in writing html, I find it much easier to rip the codes from sites I like then edit them as I choose and Dreamweaver makes that a snap. At present, it's $995.00 Australian to buy, but who actually buys software these days? It writes its own java codes for rollover images, buttons, forms and all the rest so even if you have no idea what you're doing, as long as you can make your ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the TITANS of Web Site Design programmes, competing only with HOT METAL PRO and a select couple of others. Alas, when something can do just about anything, it takes a whole lot to get it to do the slightest thing. This is not a software package to which you will take like the proverbial duck to water. At first, it will be like sitting in the cockpit of a trans-Atlantic airliner...... Once you have learned the basics, however, you will loose much sleep on successive nights as you are lured to test things out and experiment. Without a doubt, if you want to make something significant and powerful, this is the package for ...  Read the complete review