Adobe CS5, Mac, ES 65059452 User Manual

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 
What’s New
Top new features
• Support for PHP-based content
management systems (Page 2)
• Dynamically Related Files (Page 3)
• Live View navigation (Page 3)
• Enhanced CSS tools (Page 4)
• Integration with Adobe BrowserLab
(Page 5)
• Enhanced support for Subversion
(Page 6)
• PHP custom class code hinting
(Page 6)
• Site-specific code hints (Page 7)
• Enhanced CSS starter layouts
(Page 7)
• Simple site setup (Page 8)
• Integration with Business Catalyst
(Page 8)
With Dreamweaver CS5, you can:
Work with the most popular content management systems. Enjoy authoring and testing 
support for third-party PHP-based content management systems like WordPress, Joomla!, and 
Drupal. The Dynamically Related Files feature provides direct access to a page’s dependent files, 
even for complex database-driven pages. Live View and enhanced Live Code offer accurate 
previews of even the most advanced dynamic applications. Use Live View Navigation to follow 
links to reach different application states, as well as view pages already on a live server, without 
leaving Dreamweaver CS5.
Visualize and inspect CSS structure. Design and develop websites with more effective CSS 
inspection tools. With the expanded and more powerful Live View, visually display and interact 
with the CSS box model with no separate browser-based utilities required. Quickly and easily 
disable and re-enable CSS properties directly in the CSS Styles panel for simplified testing. 
Help ensure cross-browser compatibility. Preview dynamic web pages and local content with 
multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools. From Dreamweaver, launch Adobe BrowserLab, 
a new Adobe CS Live online service*, to preview your web content in multiple browsers and 
operating systems. Navigate to an application state, such as a shopping cart, or freeze JavaScript-
generated interface elements in Dreamweaver CS5 and preview these states in BrowserLab.
Who uses Adobe Dreamweaver?
Professional web designers have made Adobe Dreamweaver the market leader in visual 
web-authoring tools, using it to create engaging websites for more than 11 years. The flexible 
development environment in Dreamweaver allows visually oriented designers to work in  
Design view to create their pages. By beginning with the CSS starter layouts, they can easily  
insert assets created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Fireworks® software, or interactive  
elements created in Adobe Flash® Professional software. Using Live View in Dreamweaver,  
web designers can preview and interact with their pages as they will appear in standards-based 
browsers, making troubleshooting a more visual experience. Due to the extensible architecture in 
Dreamweaver, designers who want to add Ajax-based interface elements to their designs  
without writing any code can download third-party extensions from Adobe Exchange at  
www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange.
Web developers, who generally work in a more code-centric environment than their web 
designer counterparts, rely on professional coding tools in Dreamweaver to build not only static 
HTML pages, but also advanced web applications using back-end languages such as PHP and 
Adobe ColdFusion® software. As web developers build sites upon popular content management 
systems, they will be able to work on individual “pieces” of the dynamic page while seeing the 
completely assembled page in Live View. Developers working within Code view quickly leverage 
timesaving features such as code hinting, code completion, and code snippets for their chosen 
server model as well as for client-side scripts written in JavaScript. Regardless of the language, 
developers using Dreamweaver are confident that their code is written as they expect—but 
should a syntax error inadvertently occur, real-time highlighting allows the developer to quickly 
spot and correct the problem.
Top new features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Support for PHP-based content management systems 
With authoring and testing support for third-party PHP-based content management systems (CMS) 
like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, Dreamweaver CS5 delivers a professional development 
environment for creating robust websites. Dynamically Related Files provides direct access to the 
assets necessary for these complex systems, including dynamically generated pages and content. 
New Live View Navigation allows you to explore the various states of your dynamic applications 
and pages—even those already deployed on a live server.
* CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time. See the last page for details and limitations related to all Adobe online services.