Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Upgrade

List Price: $199.00 Discount Price: $195.99

Features:

• The ideal solution for quickly and easily designing, developing, and maintaining websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment
• Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts
• Build and maintain web applications using the latest development technologies, including Ajax, PHP, and Adobe ColdFusion
• Incorporate Adobe Flash Video into websites and applications with five clicks of a mouse
• Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow

Accessories:
ColorVision Spyder2 Suite Win/Mac	ColorVision Spyder2PRO Win/Mac

Customer Reviews:

Sad successor to a great program [Posted on 2007-10-02]
Quite a few years ago I switched to Dreamweaver when Marcomedia was still the owner. I loved how fast it was, and how clean it created web pages. At the time, FrontPage was its competitor and FP was a joke. I followed Dreamweaver until CS3. This version has problems following mapped drives for backup and saving changes. I'm a pc tech and I have advanced skills. This is a Dreamweaver issue. As with all its products the first thing Adobe did was bloat up the program, and it now runs like syrup. The first time I tried to activate I had problems with confirmation. I called tech support and the illiterates in India were unable to help me. I restored my OS to an earlier date and was able to activate. I've also had a lot of trouble saving PDF's with acro 8 pro. I used to love Dreamweaver but now I've switched to Microsoft Expression. It's like what Dreamweaver used to be. And the price of Microsoft Expression Web is only $99! This product is now overpriced and overbloated as with all Adobe products. I won't use it again and I'm looking for another PDF creator. I understand there are some free ones out there.

3 one-star reviews confirm my Adobe experience from day one [Posted on 2007-11-16]
I, too, used to love Dreamweaver and currently have version 8. My experience with Adobe over many many years has been that their software has ALWAYS been overpriced and over-bloated. I HATE Acrobat, which I have NEVER been able to use effectively. So when Adobe bought Macromedia I groaned. But after a while I thought it was time to upgrade Dreamweaver and came here. Changed my mind based on these reviews. Why write a review when I didn't buy the product? Simply to confirm that what these people say is typical of my past experience, too. These reviewers are not cranks. Adobe sucks.

Nice upgrade from MX [Posted on 2007-12-02]
One of the early WYSIWYG web page builders I used was an Adobe product that had the worst manuals and workflow ever, so I assumed the Adobe influence on Dreamweaver would be awful. This upgrade was a pleasant surprise, fixing some key issues I had with MX, and offering some features I have yet to explore.

Be CAREFULL before you upgrade with this product !! [Posted on 2008-05-09]
The other posts are correct. -- Be very careful before you purchase this upgrade.

Macromedia seemed to have had a different (better) upgrade policy than Adobe and if you don't read carefully you might get yourself stuck with a product that you can't use. -- I have the MX2004Pro studio (that includes Dreamweaver MX2004) but I just wanted to upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3. After reading the other posts on this page - I went to Adobe to see what they had to say on the issue.

This is their response: "I understand that you want to know whether you can upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3 (from the MX2004 Studo Suite). This is to inform you that as per Adobe's upgrade policy; there is no upgrade path from a component product of a "Suite" to a "standalone product". Therefore you will be unable to upgrade from a suite product like Studio (although it contains Dreamweaver) to a standalone product like Dreamweaver CS3."

...This is not the response I wanted, but it may be a blessing in disguise. Adobe has now given me the incentive I need to stop using Dreamweaver as a crutch and start learning how to code and build CSS websites by hand.



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Don't buy this [Posted on 2008-06-22]
I just purchased an upgrade from Studio MX 2004 and cannot change from a windows based pc to a mac. Macromedia was a great company, never a problem. I will not purchase ANY other product from Adobe.

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