Macromedia Dreamweaver is a professional HTML editor for visually designing and managing Web sites and pages. Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver makes it easy to get started and provides you with helpful tools to enhance your Web design experience.

Dreamweaver includes many coding tools and features: an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference, a JavaScript Debugger, and code editors (the Code view and Code inspector) that allow you to edit JavaScript, XML, and other text documents directly in Dreamweaver. Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology imports HTML documents without reformatting the code—and you can set Dreamweaver to clean up and reformat HTML when you want it to.

The visual editing features in Dreamweaver also let you quickly add design and functionality to your pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a document. Streamline your development workflow by creating and editing images in Macromedia Fireworks, then importing them directly into Dreamweaver, or by adding Flash objects you create directly in Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver is fully customizable. Use Dreamweaver to create your own objects and commands, modify keyboard shortcuts, and even write JavaScript code to extend Dreamweaver capabilities with new behaviors, Property inspectors, and site reports.

 

Extending Dreamweaver
There are several ways to extend Dreamweaver using HTML, XML, JavaScript and C. You can write your own objects, behavior actions, commands, property inspectors, and data translators. You can also make custom tags visible in Dreamweaver by adding them to the tag database and defining an icon for them.

To accomplish these tasks, you must be proficient in JavaScript and thoroughly understand HTML elements. You need not have prior knowledge of XML, and proficiency with C is required only if you need some functionality that is not available in the Dreamweaver JavaScript API.

These are some of the objects to extend the powerful Dreamweaver further. All these extensions are offered free for download. You are encouraged to go through the codes and if needed, modify it as per your requirments.

For more information on Dreamweaver extensions try this link at Macromedia.com

If you are interested in creating your own extensions why not try this link at Webmonkey.com

 

The Trademarks and Logos are property of Macromedia Inc. These Dreamweaver extensions and related documentations are provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the software remains with you.

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