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The Professional Web Site Development program
HTML and DHTML Tool .
Supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Layers.
Supports JavaScripts.
A Fully Fledged FTP client.

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Dreamweaver is an exciting software : it's simple to use and it's one of the very best WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get ) HTML generator and editing tool to ever come down the pike. This means if you change something on the screen inside Dreamweaver, it will show you the results instantly. In contrast, if you were to code the HTML by hand, you would have to look at the code inside a Web browser to see the results. The instant feedback of a live design environment such as dreamweaver speeds up your workflow tremendously, because you can see whether you like the results while you are working.

An initial design was usually laid out in a Vector Drawing Program like Freehand or Adobe Illustrator. But vectors aren't native to the web, so the illustration was then ported to an Image Editing Program, such as Photoshop or Corel Photo-Paint. In these pixel-based programs, special effects, such as beveled edges, were laboriously added and text was merged with the bitmap before it was exported to an Optimizing program.

An optimizer, such as Debabelizer, was necessary to ensure that the web-safe colors were used and that the file size was the smallest possible for the bandwidth-limited Internet. Next came Integration into the Web : linking URLs, image maps, rollovers, slices, and more.

A slew of small specialty programs filled these needs. Moreover, many designers were forced to learn HTML and JavaScript; because no program did everything that was needed, many tasks had to be done manually. Adding to the intense difficulty of mastering all of the various programs was the problem of Modifying an Image. If a client wanted a change - and clients always want changes - the whole graphic had to rebuild from scratch. Fireworks offers a revolutionary new way to create web graphics. It Combines the best features of all the various programs. Best of all , virtually every single aspect of a Fireworks graphic can be altered at any stage. Not only is this a tremendous time-saver, but also a major production enhancement - and the web requires an extraordinary amount of material and maintenance. Not only are new sites and the web pages constantly going online, but existing pages need continual updating. The underlying philosophy Fireworks -Everything is editable, all the time - reflects a deep awareness of the web designer's real world situation.