Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was created by Macromedia in 1997, and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
Adobe Dreamweaver is available for OS X and for Windows.
Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have improved support for Web technologies such as CSS,JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion, Scriptlet, and PHP.
Features
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design and development application that provides a visual WYSIWYG editor (colloquially referred to as the Design view) and a code editor with standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as more sophisticated features such as real-time syntax checking and code introspection for generating code hints to assist the user in writing code. The Design view facilitates rapid layout design and code generationas it allows users to create and manipulate the layout of HTML elements. Dreamweaver features an integrated browser for previewing developed webpages in the program's own preview pane in addition to allowing content to be open in locally installed web browsers. It provides transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms or regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.
Dreamweaver, like other HTML editors, edits files locally then uploads them to the remote web server using FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. Dreamweaver CS4 now supports the Subversion (SVN) version control system.
Since version 5, Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages out of the box:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP).
- C#
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- ColdFusion
- EDML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- Java
- Javascript
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- Visual Basic (VB)
- Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
- Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Support for ASP.NET and Java Server Pages was dropped since version CS5.
Users can add their own language syntax highlighting. In addition, code completion is available for many of these languages.
Internationalization and localization
Language availability
Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is available in the following languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Specific features for Arabic and Hebrew languages
The older Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 also features a Middle Eastern version that allows typing Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Hebrew text (written from right to left) within the code view. Whether the text is fully Middle Eastern (written from right to left) or includes both English and Middle Eastern text (written left to right and right to left), it will be displayed properly.
Version history
| Provider | Major version | Minor update/alternative name | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macromedia | 1.0 | 1.0 | December 1997 | First version. Mac OS only. |
| 1.2 | March 1998 | First Windows version | ||
| 2.0 | 2.0 | December 1998 | ||
| 3.0 | 3.0 | December 1999 | ||
| UltraDev 1.0 | June 2000 | |||
| 4.0 | 4.0 | December 2000 | ||
| UltraDev 4.0 | December 2000 | |||
| 6.0 | MX | 29 May 2002 | ||
| 7.0 | MX 2004 | 10 September 2003 | ||
| 8.0 | 8.0 | 13 September 2005 | Last Macromedia version. Included with Adobe CS2.3 | |
| Adobe Systems | 9.0 | CS3 | 16 April 2007 | Replaces Adobe GoLive in Adobe Creative Suite |
| 10.0 | CS4 | 23 September 2008 | ||
| 11.0 | CS5 | 12 April 2010 | ||
| 11.5 | CS5.5 | 12 April 2011 | Supports HTML5. | |
| 12.0 | CS6 | 21 April 2012 | A perpetual license (disk version) and download only (Cloud version) exist with differing menu structure | |
| 13.0 | Creative Cloud | 17 June 2013 | The perpetual license option is dropped in this version. | |
| 14.0 | CC 2014 | 18 June 2014 | ||
| 14.1 | 6 October 2014 | |||
| 16.0 | CC 2015 | 16 June 2015 |
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