Adobe CS5.5 65150273 User Manual

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 
What’s New
Top features
 
• Enhanced Multiscreen Preview 
panel (Page 3)
 
• Enhanced CSS3 and HTML5 support 
(Page 4)
 
• Robust new jQuery integration  
(Page 4)
 
• PhoneGap integration to build 
native Android and iOS apps  
(Page 5)
 
• Live View enhancements for more 
accurate rendering (Page 6)
 
• W3C validation for improved 
accuracy (Page 6)
 
• Support for Subversion 1.7 (Page 7)
 
• New FTPS and FTPeS support  
for more secure transfers (Page 7)
With integrated tools that are available directly in the authoring environment, Adobe Dreamweaver 
CS5.5 can help increase your productivity and virtually eliminates the need for external third-party 
browser-based tools. Jump-start your creative process with updated CSS starter layouts and 
real-time previews of interactive elements and video for increased control and flexibility.
With Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5, you can:
Create engaging, standards-based websites with HTML5 and CSS3—Use Adobe Dreamweaver 
CS5.5 to create compelling sites with the latest technologies. HTML5 code hinting makes it easier 
to quickly build your site. The enhanced CSS panel supports the new CSS3 properties, while  
CSS3 code hinting helps you ensure that your pages render correctly in a wide variety of browsers. 
And with the new Live W3C Validation feature, you can be confident that your code is well-formed 
and compliant.
Be more productive when designing for mobile devices—Code more efficiently with Adobe 
Dreamweaver CS5.5, now with integrated jQuery—the industry-leading JavaScript library—with 
starter layouts and code hinting for your mobile designs. Find and attach interactions to element 
on your page with enhanced Document Object Model (DOM) hinting. Build out your own 
functionality more easily with enhanced custom Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) hinting to parse  
and hint custom functions and methods. 
Design for multiple devices—The web has spread from the desktop onto an array of devices.  
The enhanced Multiscreen Preview panel allows you to preview your code on smartphones, 
tablets, and PC screens—all at the same time. Quickly create media queries for each device and  
get real-time rendering with the updated Live View. Then use new PhoneGap integration to create 
native mobile applications for Android and iOS operating systems.
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 and increasingly to branch out into designs  
for mobile devices and mobile apps. The flexible development environment in Dreamweaver 
allows visually oriented designers to work in Design view to create their pages. Starting with 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. In Live View, web 
designers can preview and interact with their pages as they will appear in standards-based 
browsers on a wide range of devices, making troubleshooting a more visual experience. 
Professional web developers work in a more code-centric environment than their web designer 
counterparts. They rely on the coding tools in Dreamweaver to produce static and dynamic HTML 
pages and web applications, with support for back-end languages such as PHP and other third-
party frameworks like Joomla!, Drupal, and WordPress. As web developers build sites upon 
popular content management systems, they can work on individual sections of the dynamic page 
while seeing the completely assembled page in Live View. Developers working in Code view can 
take advantage of timesaving features such as code hinting, code completion, and code snippets 
for their chosen server model, as well as 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.