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Summary: The Best Program For Web Development
Review: I am a owner of a web design firm. I use this program daily and love it. I have tried many other programs and they just don't compare. It lets you do so much more than any other web program I have tried. I recommend it to all people who want a good looking web site and a site that works. Very easy to use! - Great for someone just starting out or a professional web designer.
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Summary: Fantastic Product!
Review: I am an asp web developer that also occasionally needs to do design work. Dreamweaver 4 is,by far, the best design tool on the market and now with it's developer tools in Ultradev, including ASP/CFML/JSP functionality, Sourcesafe integration and sql utilities it rivals any other tool on the market. The only feature missing is the intellisense capabilities that Interdev has.
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Summary: Make Dynamic Apps - FAST
Review: I am the Internet Manager for an art supply company, and a web programmer at heart. I manage 5 people, and a couple of websites for our company. We bought Dreamweaver and Ultradev 4 copies for everyone about 4 months ago, and I have become completely ADDICTED to this product. I have done more than my fair share of hand coding, notepad was my previous editor. And though the hand coding purists may pooh-pooh this kind of product, I will never go back. This product has allowed me to become about 8 times as productive - and now I expect my employees to be more productive also. The html editing tools are great in themself, but combine this with the ability to rapidly create dynamic pages has allowed me to create all kinds of management tools that in a short period of time - that I used to just daydream about. Instead of thinking - wouldn't it be nice if I had the time to do 'this' - I can have things up and working in a day or two. It has allowed me - literaly - to create my own applications, in about the same time it would take for me to explain what I want to another person. Love It!
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Summary: Refuse To Use Anything Else
Review: I design webpages for a living and use Dreamweaver 4 on a daily, probably HOURLY basis! It can be a memory hog at times, but otherwise it is great! Gives you great control over how your code is written. I like th new Inline WYSIWYG/HTML code view. I can edit both at the same time without switching between each view. Love the new insert Flash buttons and text option!
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Summary: This product is indispensable
Review: I have been struggling with pop-up menus and disjointed rollovers for some time now, but Fireworks makes it so easy. Almost too easy because people are so impressed with the results, I think I should've worked harder. Fireworks may replace Photoshop for me. I cannot believe people are developing website without Dreamweaver/Fireworks.
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Summary: The best one-two punch for creating web sites
Review: I have taught classes and written class curriculum on the topic of web page generation, database interaction, and building web applications. When it comes to designing and building the standard professional web site with static pages (i.e., those that do not interact with databases in real time, which is most common professional "home page" sites), Dreamweaver is the de facto standard in the industry, and for good reason. This combination package is my favorite. Fireworks works as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. While Photoshop is the ideal general image tool, Fireworks is designed specifically to help create web pages, and it provides automatic support and wizard-like features that make typical web design tasks automatic - such as building in multiple overlayed graphics effects, bursts, shadows, glows, 3-D, rollovers, etc. - but utomatically optimized for the web, rather than requiring you to thoroughly understand graphics optimization for multiple environments, including non-web environments. When you work with Photoshop, it takes some effort to make sure your cool Photoshop effect translates well to the web. When working with Fireworks, it's hard NOT to do that. Everything I've done in Fireworks always translates well. Furthermore, your work in Fireworks can automatically be imported into Dreamweaver in such a way that is more powerful than you would get with other tool combinations - the Fireworks/Dreamweaver transfer process will build Javascript code to support rollover effects and other features for menu support, dramatically speeding up the process. Dreamweaver is a drag-and-drop style HTML page design tool. In that regard, it can do the same things that the free Netscape Composer HTML design tool can do, but Dreamweaver does far, far more. You can work with layers, server side includes (SSI), libraries of Javascript effects (including your own - you can add to the library), and drag-and-drop HTML form design. You can build libraries of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) styles, and apply them throughout your site, or pages, or as you see fit. Dreamweaver includes optional commands that will search your generated HTML code and format it, and strip out unused leftover tags. You can bring in HTML code that was generated from MS Word, and remove all of the unnecessary garbage that MS Word is known to do, which can dramatically reduce your file size. Dreamweaver includes some Javascript fixes that will address known browser problems, such as the "Netscape resize fix", but it will only include it if you wish. You can easily extend the menu to test your completed page in any and all browsers you have available to you. One of the most useful features for any web designer is the ability to survey the "Site Map", which is a graphic representation of all of your pages and their relationships to each other. Dreamweaver makes it easy to manage a site containing multiple static pages, and automatically search for hyperlinks that may be broken and need to be fixed. Anyone who has created large web sites will know how dramatic a time saver this is. As I said, I've been teaching classes in web design for years. I 've also run a company that offered web site hosting services. In my experience, my users and students who use Dreamweaver are consistently the most satisfied, and usually end up talking the MS Frontpage users into switching. Frontpage is good for getting a great looking site up and running quickly, but becomes very awkward when it's time to modify those sites. Other systems are a little too narrow, such as NetObjects Fusion, which is good for creating the standard business site of "about us / product list / contacts" combinations, but not much more. Dreamweaver seems to be the most popular choice for flexibility, ease of use, and extensibility. And it's my favorite, hands-down.
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Summary: You can't live without it!
Review: I have to begin this review by saying that Macromedia rocks!!! They truely have THE HIGHEST standards of quality in their products. Both of these applications deserve a 5 Star Rating. Fireworks 4 is just awesome. It is the best image editing program you could ever own for the web. I have been using Fireworks since its 1.0 version and I have loved every upgrade and this one is no exception. Amazing!!! My hats off to you Macromedia!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I strayed away from Macromedia a few years ago after becoming disillusioned with the Director series. After just having had a horrible experience with compatability while using Microsoft web-editing software, I decided to purchase Dreamweaver and see how far the company had come. I am absolutely blown away by the power of this studio - it has singlehandedly replaced about seven different programs I was using, and making sure your content is accessable to all web users is a snap. The design tools are as simple or complex as you want to make them - I prefer to handle layout through the WYSIWYG editor, but I often need to insert custom tags and script. Both methods are simple and intuitive, as if the software always knows exactly what I'm trying to do, and it's helping me along the way. The seamless integration with Flash and Fireworks media (etc.) is a bit of a plug, but it's wonderful if you're other Macromedia products (incidentally, picking up Fireworks along with this is a great idea). Support through the Macromedia webpage and the built-in tutorials - as well as the expandability of the program through extensions - is also excellent, and the FTP and site management is wonderful for someone as disorganized as I am. I can't recommend this product highly enough for any web designer, from the novice to the advanced. Proficient developers that commonly use ASP and Java may want to upgrade to the UltraDev version to avoid too much custom code.
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Summary: Dreamweaver--My dreams come true!!
Review: I was an everyday/all-day user of Dreamweaver 3, Fireworks 3, Flash 5, and Freehand 9--so when this upgrade of Dreamweaver/Fireworks came out, I was more than thrilled! Before Dreamweaver, as a beginning website builder, I had been coding all my pages using Word Pad and HTML--hey, it's free. With Dreamweaver 4, no more importing HTML files from other programs and cleaning up the code. Even though I am only webmastering a website about my family--Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Flash 5 and Freehand 9 have made my site look better than the other personal pages that I encounter on Netscape and Geocities. You can do much without being an HTML pro or web design professional, and the browser preview check is always a hepful feature--I have to worry about IE and Netscape functionality. Fireworks 4 allowed me to create cycling gif banners for my site--with a little Javascript code. The programs are easy to learn--even if you have never used Dreamweaver or Fireworks (in that case buy the full package not the upgrade)--by just reading the instruction manuals and playing with around the tutorials. I recommend Dreamweaver 3 and 4 over other WYSIWYG editors, especially FrontPage, and for non-Adobe types it's the best out there. I am a non-Adobe type because the software packages are nutty-priced--even with my educational discount the price of the full suite package equals that of a year's tuition study at a small state college.
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Summary: A vastly improved product...
Review: I was pretty hard on UltraDev 1 because of the editor. Well, the editor is vastly improved, with color-coded code and will auto-indent for you. Better than that, you can show the window as a split view, with the preview on top (or bottom). This way, your code window no longer needs to hover over your HTML preview. If you can swing it, get the version that is integrated with Fireworks 4. See my review of this product, because it is truly a rewarding experience (5 stars just because of the seamlessness) to work with the two in concert. The DB functions are nice, and work well, but I prefer to "roll my own" in this area by just writing the code. There are many more improved or added features, and a nice bonus is the integration of some O'Reilly books that live in one of the little panes that clutter up your screen. Actually quite useful information esp. about HTML, when you just can't remember an attribute name or what have you. An impressive product.
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