Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $399.00 Discount Price: $549.99

Features:

• All-in-one design and code editor to support the way you work.
• Build standards-based sites using rich visual tools for XHTML and CSS.
• Integrate XML-based data with a powerful, visual, drag-and-drop workflow.

Customer Reviews:

Better than Front Page [Posted on 2006-02-19]
I am not a web designer by profession, but I still wanted to produce good looking websites as part of my personal business. Dreamweaver 8 is easy to learn and powerful, much better than MS Front Page and worth every penny. Even if you don't know how to read or write code, Dreamweaver will do most all of the work for you using an easy graphical interface. The tutorial also is very helpful for first time designers and explains almost everything you will want to do.

Can't transfer license from Windows to Mac [Posted on 2006-04-24]
I recently switched Windows to Mac. Since Dreamweaver includes both versions, I thought I could deactivate my Windows machine, and install it on the Mac. After calling their customer service department twice, I was told that this is not possible. Once you activate the product on one platform, you have to buy it again if you want to use it on a different platform.

I might be willing to pay for an upgrade if they were offering a Universal Binary, but currently they are not. They might even view Intel Mac's as a different plaform the Power PC Mac's and try to charge me again if they release an Intel version.

Because their licensing is such a pain, I would not recommend this product to anyone.

Greatest Web tool ever built, but........... [Posted on 2006-05-18]
This version on Dreamweaver is the best web tool ever built. It has every feature I could ask for. Too bad it's just too slow to use use for real (making money!). I,m a terrible typist and I can out type it. To switch between GUI view and text view involves a 20 second computer lockup. It's a shame because I absolutely love the product. Maybe one day I will use it for production but not this version.

Dreamweaver 8 is a dream come true. [Posted on 2006-06-14]
Dreamweaver 8 is the best HTML editor on the market hands down.

There are numerous small design changes from MX 2004 to 8 but the fantastic workspace from MX 2004 is fully intact whether you are a hand coder or a design coder. In fact the hand coder screen (code display) has undergone some very nice time saving improvements (i.e. 1 touch comments) that are very welcome.

The larger improvements that you will find are increased support for CSS, XHTML 1.0 strict, XSLT, JavaScript, XML, and more. Also new is the built in validator for the different types of HTML and CSS... That is a massive timesaver all on its own. Finally the code generated in design view is much cleaner in my opinion. MX 2004 had the habit of putting the code in place without cleaning up previous code; Dreamweaver 8 fixes this problem nicely.

Now that Adobe owns Macromedia I fully expected that Adobe's great customer support would be available and I was right. The customer support was fast, courteous, very helpful, and very patient with all my questions. Not once were my hypothetical questions treated like a burden.

Macromedia had a very high quality, industry standard product on the market with Dreamweaver MX 2004. Now Adobe-Macromedia has an even better product with Dreamweaver 8. You can feel Macromedia's attention to details throughout the product and you can see Adobe's very high standards being lived up to in every nuance.

Worth every cent and maybe a little more.

Much Better Than Expected [Posted on 2006-06-18]
I had been using dreamweaver 4 forever. I had upgraded to MX but could not stand it. MX once opened for the first time you look at it and go "what the hell is going on here" nothing was where you thought it would be, I am pretty sure the designers were drunk. So I went back to using 4. Just got 8 and it is smooth and easy. Things are much different but all better in so many ways. I like programs that you do not have to look at the instructions when you upgrade to a new version. They realy put some thought into making it very intuitive. Go for it and dont look back. Avoid MX like the plague it is though.

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