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Dreamweaver 8!

This page was created in Dreamweaver 8!!

New Things

Trial Version - http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/

Read "Help>What's new in Dreamweaver 8 after installing."

• Has the same look and feel as DW MX 2004
• Templates are compatible and imported automatically.
• Doesn't overwrite Dreamweaver Studio MX 2004 upon Installation
• Automatically includes 2004 Sites & Files into DW 8 Site Manager
• Dreamweaver sets itself as the default standard editor for most Web Applications programming languages during set-up unless you choose otherwise.
  • ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, XML, others. 
  • See Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET 2003.
• Edit > Preferences - New Copy/Paste feature
• Default document created is XHTML - Important change in DW 8.
• Default save is .html, no longer .htm
• Improved Cascading Style Sheet Panel
• New Style Rendering toolbar for media-related Cascading Style Sheet settings (advanced). For use in rendering Styles for page displays in hand-held devices, for example.
• Site Reporting Tools - Will be covered in Web Accessibility - 508 class.  New and improved in Dreamweaver 8.
• New Coding toolbar in Code view (advanced).  Note, the Properties toolbar at the bottom of the DW Editor is much more useful for most items.