Dreamweaver CS4 New Features
These are my favorite 3 new features in Dreamweaver CS4.
1. Related Files and Code Navigator
This is a very clever new feature that is going to save Dreamweaver developers a ton of time. Updating CSS can be quite tedious, especially when the style sheet is a lengthy one. By clicking the included file shown in the Related Files bar you will now be able to see both the CSS source in Code view and the parent page in Design view. By selecting any particular item in Design view, Dreamweaver will automatically locate and highlight the corresponding CSS in Code view. This allows to you make any necessary changes to the CSS whilst at all times having a live preview in Design view. This feature can also be used for other include files, but editing CSS is where you will see the most benefit.
2. Live View
Finally, what took them so long! Anyone who has been using Dreamweaver for any period of time will know that design view in Dreamweaver can look quite different to how a Web page displays in a browser. As a result, every time you made a change in Dreamweaver you needed to click the F12 shortcut, which would then display the page in your default browser. Live view is an in-application browser view of your Web page which updates persistently as and when any code is edited. This is going to please a lot of Dreamweaver users. I give this new feature a 9 out of 10.
3. Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
For more advanced Dreamweaver users who add AJAX and Javascript to Web pages, these new code hints will speed up development time and reduce errors.
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