Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 software is a perfect environment for designers and developers to build standards-based websites. Write in code, develop visually with already existing CMS such as WordPress, Joomla! or Drupal, get complete efficiency with CSS inspection tools. Simplify advanced website development with integrated support for Subversion software and custom PHP code hinting. Multibrowser compability test provided by Adobe BrowserLab - a new Adobe CS Live online service.

Top features

Support for PHP-based CMS
With authoring and testing support for third-party PHP-based content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, Dreamweaver CS5 delivers a professional development environment for creating robust websites. Dynamically Related Files provides direct access to the assets necessary for these complex systems, including dynamically generated pages and content. New Live View Navigation allows you to explore the various states of your dynamic applications and pages--even those already deployed on a live server.

Dynamically Related Files
What is important when developing websites based on CMS like WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal is understanding how a page will look when finally assembled. Page itself is generated dynamically by the CMS from any number of individual pieces, known as includes, and is dependent on server-side logic to be viewed in a browser. The Dynamically Related Files feature presented in Dreamweaver CS5 helps you access files and update pages much faster, as well as simplify management tasks for complex sites. In a single click, direct Dreamweaver to discover all of the external files and scripts necessary to assemble the page and display their filenames in the Related Files toolbar. With Live View enabled, Dreamweaver renders the page as it will appear in standards-compliant browsers, complete with dynamic, database-driven content and server- and client-side logic. Simplest pages in many of the popular CMS frameworks and themes have numerous dynamically related files, making it difficult to find the particular related files you need. With the ability to filter file types or use a wildcard expression, Dreamweaver lets you focus specifically on the files that you want to edit. If a related file doesn't exist locally, Dreamweaver CS5 shows a prompt, and allows you retrieve the file from the server in one click.

Live View navigation
Live View navigation allows you to quickly and accurately check your code and your CMS design themes. With Live View navigation enabled, links are active, allowing you to interact with server-side applications and dynamic data. Live Code highlights changes as they happen, allowing you to quickly locate the dynamically loaded data or code changes triggered by JavaScript. At any stage of development, Live View navigation allows you to enter a URL to inspect pages served from a live web server and easily edit pages you have browsed to if they exist in one of your locally defined sites.

Enhanced CSS inspection tools
By separating page markup (HTML) from the actual presentation of the content (CSS), web designs have become much more flexible and adaptable. With enhanced CSS tools and Live View, Dreamweaver CS5 gives you complete control without having to leave your editing environment, enabling you to view any link state and change text size - tasks that previously required a browser.

The Inspect command
Develop CSS-based designs more efficiently and accurately by visually displaying the CSS box model properties - including padding, border, and margin - in detail. For designers who are new to web design or looking to expand their understanding of CSS, Dreamweaver CS5 makes it much easier to learn about the properties of an HTML element. In Dreamweaver CS5, you can use the Inspect command along with Live View to quickly identify HTML elements and their associated CSS styles.

CSS enable/disable
Fast and easily disable and re-enable CSS properties right from the CSS Styles panel in Dreamweaver CS5. Disabling a CSS property simply comments out the specified property without actually deleting it, and the affected property is no longer rendered. This convenient option for toggling CSS properties on and off, coupled with the ability to inspect CSS, allows you to stay in editing environment throughout the development process.

Integration with Adobe BrowserLab
Dreamweaver CS5 integrates with Adobe BrowserLab, which provides a quick and accurate solution for cross-browser compatibility testing. Use BrowserLab to preview web pages and local content with multiple viewing and comparison tools, customizing sets of browsers to meet your project's requirements.

PHP custom class code hinting
Display proper syntax for PHP functions, objects, and constants. Dreamweaver CS5 provides enhanced PHP code hinting by dynamically parsing PHP code and updating it as you type. The code hints for PHP core functions and objects include the function signature, the module that defines the function, a description tooltip that mentions the PHP versions in which it is available, the method and parameter descriptions, and a link to the PHP.net manual page. Code hinting also works with your own custom functions and classes. Dreamweaver CS5 dynamically highlights errors and provides alerts in the Information bar to help you more efficiently find and fix errors in your PHP code.

Site-specific code hints
As sites become more customized, especially those built using CMS and/or custom plug-ins, the need to edit customized code efficiently becomes more important. Site-specific code hints within Dreamweaver help you to more efficiently handle PHP coding tasks on a site-by-site basis. Theme files for blogs and other custom PHP files and directories can be included (or excluded) to customize the coding environment of Dreamweaver CS5 when working with third-party PHP libraries and CMS frameworks such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! and others.

Enhanced CSS starter layouts
Pump-up your standards-based website design with updated and simplified CSS starter layouts.

Simple site setup
Setup become faster and easier thanks to Site Definition dialog box as it has been extensively redesigned, implementing many improvements. Start with as much or as little detail - even with just a site name and local site folder - and Dreamweaver will prompt you for the remaining details as they're needed as you build your site.

Integration with Adobe Business Catalyst
With the Adobe Business Catalyst extension for Dreamweaver and the Business Catalyst online service deliver powerful online businesses without programming and at a fraction of the time and cost - all from within your familiar Dreamweaver workspace. Business Catalyst is an online service that can replace as many as five or more applications and tools with a single central platform for web designers that works natively with Dreamweaver through the Business Catalyst extension for Dreamweaver. Using the unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, and from beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generating mini-sites.

System requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 512MB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive