Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

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Product Features

• The ideal solution for quickly and easily designing, developing, and maintaining websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment
• Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts
• Build and maintain web applications using the latest development technologies, including Ajax, PHP, and Adobe ColdFusion
• Incorporate Adobe Flash Video into websites and applications with five clicks of a mouse
• Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NDID4Y
• Item model number: 38040463
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 27, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,740 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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Note: This is the upgrade version of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.

Design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications--from start to finish--with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Upgrade software. Built for designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment. Intelligent integration with related Adobe software ensures an efficient workflow across your favorite tools.

Dreamweaver CS3 offers both a visual layout interface and a streamlined coding environment.

Easily set up CSS layouts, such as the three-column layout with header and footer, using the New Document dialog box.

The CSS layout-visualization feature helps you keep track of complex nesting schemes in your web pages.

With Dreamweaver CS3 you can easily copy and paste images from Photoshop and Fireworks, and later edit them in the original software.

Adobe Device Central lets you preview how your web pages will look on mobile devices.

The Spry framework for Ajax lets you add user interface components such as the expandable areas seen in the Event information (open) and Event Directions (closed) regions here.

Create rich web content
A higher standard in web design and development is emerging, powered by Dreamweaver CS3. Create rich, dynamic interfaces that tightly weave static structures together with responsive interactivity. Use the new Spry framework for Ajax to develop energetic web experiences that will leave your competition standing still. In other words, think deep, dream big, and then execute flawlessly with the most exciting web design and development tool we've ever devised.

Maximize efficiency
Accelerate your workflow with Dreamweaver CS3, a faster, smoother version of the preferred web design and development tool. Drop in FLV files, add images from Adobe Photoshop, and test your content for mobile devices. Create visually or code directly, work on your choice of Macintosh or Windows, and enjoy the benefits of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools.

Apply best practices
Dreamweaver CS3 makes it easy to apply best practices and accepted standards to ensure your websites and applications play well with others. Build CSS-based websites from the ground up with new CSS layouts, the unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization and management tools. Ensure more reliable and consistent performance with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Instantly preview your content for PCs, mobile devices, and print, and find fast solutions to browser-specific CSS issues with the new CSS Advisor website.

Audience Benefit

Web designers--Discover an exceptional web design workflow with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Design and maintain websites from start to finish with your choice of either a powerful visual design interface or an efficient coding environment. Streamline design with helpful CSS features; preview your pages for PCs, mobile devices, and print; and easily test pages for browser compatibility. Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Fireworks CS3, and other Adobe tools.

Web developers--Develop more reliable, consistent web applications based on universally accepted development standards with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, and Ajax, for both internal and external projects. Ensure consistency with helpful CSS features and automated cross-browser compatibility testing.

Comments embedded in the code offer tips about how to work with CSS.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Industry-leading tool
Take advantage of all the flexibility and power of a world-class web design tool. Manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, craft complex code in Code view, or do a little of each. Work the way you work best.

Integrated workflows
Design, develop, and maintain content within Dreamweaver CS3 while taking advantage of intelligent integration with other Adobe tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Fireworks CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Contribute CS3, and new Adobe Device Central CS3 for creating mobile device content.

Complete CSS support
Discover the advantage of visual CSS tools that make it easy to view, edit, and move styles within and between files, as well as see how your changes will affect the design. Accelerate your workflow with new CSS layouts, and test your design with the new Browser Compatibility Check.

Integrated coding environment
Organize and accelerate your coding with code collapse, color coding, line numbering, and a coding toolbar with comment/uncomment and code snippets. Apply code hints for HTML and server languages.

Support for leading technologies
Take advantage of support for leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.

Effortless XML
Quickly integrate XML content using either XSL or the Spry framework for Ajax. Point to an XML file or XML feed URL, and Dreamweaver CS3 will display its contents, enabling you to drag and drop appropriate fields onto your page.

Adobe Flash Video support
Easily add Flash Video to your web pages in just five clicks, with no knowledge of Flash required. Customize the video environment to match your website.

Learning resources
Learn as you go with comprehensive in-product tutorials, reference content, and instructional templates that make it easy to expand your skill set and adopt the latest technologies.

Extended Dreamweaver community
Enjoy all the benefits of the extensive Dreamweaver community, including the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Center, training and seminars, developer certification programs, user forums, and more than 1,000 downloadable extensions available in the Dreamweaver Exchange.

Cross-platform support
Pick your platform: Dreamweaver CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred platform and then deliver across platforms with more reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

Browser Compatibility Check identifies CSS-related issues in different operating systems.

Additional Features

Browser Compatibility Check
Save time and ensure a more consistent experience across browsers and operating systems with the new Browser Compatibility Check. Generate reports that identify CSS-related issues in a variety of browsers, without needing to launch the browsers.

CSS management
Easily move CSS code from inline to head, from head to external sheet, from document to document, or between external sheets. Cleaning up existing CSS in older pages has never been easier.

CSS layouts
Easily incorporate CSS into your project with the new CSS layouts. Extensive comments in each template explain the layout, so beginning and intermediate designers can learn quickly. Each template can be customized for your project.

Spry data
Integrate data into web pages using XML from an RSS feed or a database. Integrated data can be easily sorted and filtered.

Spry widgets
Easily add common interface components such as lists, tables, tabs, form validation, and repeatable regions to web pages with widgets from the Spry framework for Ajax.

Spry effects
Easily add visual transitions to page elements to make them grow, shrink, fade, highlight, and more with the Spry effects for Ajax.

Product Description

Marketing Information:

Quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications - from start to finish - with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Built for both designers and developers, Dreamweaver CS3 offers the choice of working in an intuitive visual layout interface or a streamlined coding environment.

Product Information

Software Sub Type: Web Development

Software Name: Dreamweaver CS3 - Upgrade

Features & Benefits:

Create rich web content:

Combine static content with responsive interactivity to create rich, dynamic websites. Use the exciting new Spry framework for Ajax

Maximize efficiency:

Create visually or code directly, easily add FLV files, and enjoy intelligent integration with other Adobe software

Apply best practices:

Easily apply accepted standards for CSS, and test browser compatibility to ensure your websites and web applications are more reliable and consistent

Language Support: International English

Platform Support: PC

License Information

License Type: Product Upgrade

License Pricing: Standard

License Quantity: 1 User

Miscellaneous

Compatibility:

Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Illustrator CS3

Adobe Fireworks CS3

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

Adobe Contribute CS3

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Be CAREFULL before you upgrade with this product !!, May 9, 2008

By	D. Burley "BigBubba" (StPaul, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The other posts are correct. -- Be very careful before you purchase this upgrade.

Macromedia seemed to have had a different (better) upgrade policy than Adobe and if you don't read carefully you might get yourself stuck with a product that you can't use. -- I have the MX2004Pro studio (that includes Dreamweaver MX2004) but I just wanted to upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3. After reading the other posts on this page - I went to Adobe to see what they had to say on the issue.

This is their response: "I understand that you want to know whether you can upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3 (from the MX2004 Studo Suite). This is to inform you that as per Adobe's upgrade policy; there is no upgrade path from a component product of a "Suite" to a "standalone product". Therefore you will be unable to upgrade from a suite product like Studio (although it contains Dreamweaver) to a standalone product like Dreamweaver CS3."

...This is not the response I wanted, but it may be a blessing in disguise. Adobe has now given me the incentive I need to stop using Dreamweaver as a crutch and start learning how to code and build CSS websites by hand.



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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sad successor to a great program, October 2, 2007

By	C. Sitka "Puter Geek" (Beautiful Sitka Alaska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Quite a few years ago I switched to Dreamweaver when Marcomedia was still the owner. I loved how fast it was, and how clean it created web pages. At the time, FrontPage was its competitor and FP was a joke. I followed Dreamweaver until CS3. This version has problems following mapped drives for backup and saving changes. I'm a pc tech and I have advanced skills. This is a Dreamweaver issue. As with all its products the first thing Adobe did was bloat up the program, and it now runs like syrup. The first time I tried to activate I had problems with confirmation. I called tech support and the illiterates in India were unable to help me. I restored my OS to an earlier date and was able to activate. I've also had a lot of trouble saving PDF's with acro 8 pro. I used to love Dreamweaver but now I've switched to Microsoft Expression. It's like what Dreamweaver used to be. And the price of Microsoft Expression Web is only $99! This product is now overpriced and overbloated as with all Adobe products. I won't use it again and I'm looking for another PDF creator. I understand there are some free ones out there.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice upgrade from MX, December 2, 2007

By	A. Yaussy - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of the early WYSIWYG web page builders I used was an Adobe product that had the worst manuals and workflow ever, so I assumed the Adobe influence on Dreamweaver would be awful. This upgrade was a pleasant surprise, fixing some key issues I had with MX, and offering some features I have yet to explore.