What is Dreamweaver?
Adobe Dreamweaver is a software creation platform created by Adobe Inc. Macromedia developed it in 1997 and continued to develop it until Macromedia was purchased by Adobe Systems in 2005. Adobe Dreamweaver is compatible with all Mac OS X and Windows systems.
Following Adobe’s purchase of Macromedia’s software suite, Dreamweaver updates since version 8.0 have become more consistent with W3C requirements. Support for Web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks has strengthened in recent releases.
Features and Functionality
Adobe Dreamweaver CC is a website creation and design framework that provides an Optimized Development Environment (IDE). Dreamweaver comes with a text editor that provides syntax highlighting, code completion, real-time syntax checking, and code introspection, which creates code tips to help the user write code.
Like most HTML editors, Dreamweaver edits files locally before uploading them to a remote web server via FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV. The Subversion (SVN) version control framework is provided by Dreamweaver CS4.
Dreamweaver supports syntax highlighting for the following languages since version 5:
- ActionScript
- Active Server Pages (ASP).
- C#
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- ColdFusion
- EDML
Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Windows only), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish are among the languages supported by Adobe Dreamweaver CS6.
The origins of Dreamweave stem from Muse. Adobe Muse is a defunct offline website builder that allowed users to create fixed, fluid, or adaptive websites without writing code. It built static pages but did not host them. Mods developed by third-party developers were used to bring more specialized features to a website, such as blogging and eCommerce.
