"Dreamweaver eases your effort to write the web design codes"
Adobe dreamweaver is one of the oldest and most used application developed and marketed by the Adobe Systems. This is a proprietary licenced web development tool that was originally created by Macromedia in the year of 1997. The ownership has then been taken over by the Adobe Systems in the year of 2005. The very first version of Adobe dreamweaver was released in December of 1997 to the commercial market.


CC is yet another new term that has been added to the products of the Adobe family lately. It initially stands for “Creative Cloud”. This states that the versions of Adobe applications are well stable and will be getting direct built-in support of the adobe’s cloud services. This particular application is still active in developments, and many more improvements will be available to the user’s in the coming times.


As Adobe Dreamweaver is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and is used as a web development tool, it surely does provide a lot of tools and features to the users to have an easy work-around.

Some of the most highlighted tools and features can be listed as follows –

1) Workspaces – It provides the users with 3 different types of workspaces to work in, namely the code editor, design editor and a live preview browser.
2) Drop-down components – It provides graphical components that the users can simply drag them to their web pages and the application will take care of the design codes.
3) Site Manager – It lets the users to manage their project within a local or online server.
4) Uploading Tools – It also provides the users with tools that would help them to easily upload their projects to the online hosting servers.
5) Project Explorer – It helps the user in properly maintaining their project’s files and folders in one single place or directory.
6) Library Manager – It helps the users to maintain their required project’s library files in one place and accessible from any point of the project.
7) Properties Window – It also provides the users with a properties window that lets them to modify almost every single aspect related to any web component, without the need of any manual changes to the coding parts.
8) Live Preview – It lets the users to preview their design in real time to analyse the designs of their project.



Adobe dreamweaver cc is available for both Microsoft windows as well as MAC operating systems. The developments done in this application have improved support for CSS, JS (Java Script), and many more server-side scripting languages and frameworks. The following list features the complete support of languages that adobe dreamweaver provides, right out of the box –
1) Action Script
2) Active Server Pages (ASP)
3) C#
4) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
5) Cold Fusion
6) EDML
7) Extensible Hyper Text Mark-up Language (XHTML)
8) Extensible Mark-up Language (XML)
9) Extensible Style Sheet Language (XSLT)
10) Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML)
11) Java
12) Java Script (JS)
13) Hyper Text Pre Processor (PHP)
14) Visual Basic (VB)
15) Visual Basic Script Edition (VBScript)
16) Wireless Mark-up Language (WML)

Having all the above supports, the user’s are also allowed to add highlighting’s of their own language syntax.
Adobe dreamweaver help easy development of web pages, even a complete website without the requirement of complete coding’s for everything, as the application software takes care of them automatically. This helps the user in fast paced and hassle-free developments and deployments of the web based projects.

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