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Dreamweaver 8 New Features and Benefits


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Evolution of Dreamweaver
  3. Best Practices
  4. Efficiency
  5. Integration
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Dreamweaver 8 New Features and Benefits Overview—Efficiency

Efficiency—this was a big one for us and is an area where I think our customer research really shows. With this release, we wanted to help our users be more efficient—to enable them to accomplish more in less time. We wanted to take the hassle out of the little things to give designers and developers more time to focus the things they love—designing and developing great sites and applications.

With tools like Zoom and Guide and Code Collapse, we borrowed from workflows that our users are already familiar with and focused on ways to integrate them into Dreamweaver. Efficiency is about integrating our user’s existing workflows into Dreamweaver to keep the tool intuitive and responsive, not requiring the users to learn new workflows to accomplish tasks within the tool.

Get more done in less time with optimized user workflows that reduce the time required to complete common tasks. Dreamweaver 8 takes the hassle out of the little things so users can spend more time doing what they love–designing and developing engaging websites and applications.

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New Feature Description
Background file transfer Stop waiting and keep working while Dreamweaver 8 uploads files to the server. New functionality enables users to work with files in their local machine while Dreamweaver communicates with the server.
Zoom Get great control over design with zoom. Pan in and inspect an image or work with a complex nested table layout. Zoom out to review how a page will look overall.
Guides Compare the page layout to comps with pixel-perfect accuracy using guides to measure page layouts. Great visual feedback helps measure distances accurately and supports intelligent snapping.
Coding toolbar The new code toolbar surfaces common coding operations in a gutter bar along the side of the coding surface. No more hunting through menus and panels to find code snippets. New coding features include comment/uncomment.
Code collapse Focus only on the code in use. Hide and expand blocks of code by selection or by tag to stay organized
Workspace layouts Customize and save workspace configurations. Dreamweaver 8 ships with four different configurations that are tailored to the needs of designers and coders. Pick and choose, or easily build a custom workspace.
Tabbed documents for the Mac New document tabs on Mac help simplify the user interface and make it easier to select documents.
New starter pages Get started with web design in a snap. Beautiful new layouts and designs allow users to go from installation to full site in no time flat.
Improved site synchronize and check in / check out Manage sites with increased reliability and confidence. Improved site synchronization features help ensure that the file in use is the latest version. Prevent accidental overwriting of others’ work with improved check-in/ check-out functionality to track who is working on which files.
Compare files Quickly compare files to identify what has changed, whether it is two local files, a file on the local and remote, or two files on the remote server. Dreamweaver 8 now integrates with diff utilities on both the Mac and Windows platforms.
Paste special Spend less time wrestling content from e-mail and Microsoft Word into formats. With new pasting options in Dreamweaver, retain all the source formatting created in Microsoft Word, or just take the text and apply the CSS already attached to the page.
Site relative references Work seamlessly with server-side includes at design time and run time by ensuring that references are relative to sites instead of local files.
Code editing improvements Gain greater control over how the tool hints and completes tags to fit with your coding style.
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