Dreamweaver and the Missing Manuals

Among seasoned web developers, the name Dreamweaver should be a familiar word for a handy and user friendly web developing software or known as IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Dreamweaver once created and developed by Macromedia, which were then acquired few years ago by Adobe. Dreamweaver is know called as Adobe Dreamweaver and currently integrated to the their Creative Suite product lines.

The recent Adobe Dreamweaver release has reached version 8. Many improved features are offered on this latest Dreamweaver 8 like:

• Paste Special menu that will get rid the work of cleaning up the word processsor’s crazy text markup
• One click for Comment/Uncomment blocks of code
• Handy little widgets that facilitate code collapsing, tag wrapping, comment inserting, select parent tag, etc
• Unified CSS panel which makes designing easier and more handy

Lots of stuff can be found on the latest Dreamweaver release, but if you’re still using the previous version of Dreamweaver, these following “Missing Manuals” could help you reap more features from your Dreamweaver IDE which just you might never realized before. Check it out.

• The Missing Manual of Dreamweaver CS3
• The Missing Manual of Dreamweaver 4
• Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual By David Sawyer