Adobe Dreamweaver, formerly known as Macromedia Dreamweaver is a professional web development tool that has been around since 1997. It offers a flexible workspace that can be customized to fit the user's needs and integrates well with other Adobe products. It has a robust collection of tools, yet is still easy for a beginner web developer to use due to its intuitive interface.
Dreamweaver offers three different interfaces which are design only, HTML code only or a split screen combination of design and code. Those who are less familiar with HTML may find building web pages in the design only interface much easier. It looks and behaves like a word processor window. For those who like to get into the HTML code and tweak things down to the final tag, the coding window has an easy to read format for programming. Tags are colour coded, lines are numbered and the nested tags are automatically indented.
Most tools in Dreamweaver are located on the main screen so they easy to find. The toolbar at the top of the screen so they are easy to find. The toolbar at the top of the screen can be set for menus or tabs and sorts tools into seven categories based on their purpose. The tools needed for a basic web page can be found under the "common" toolbar tab. A "favourites" tab can be customized to contain the tools used most often. At the bottom of the Dreamweaver editing window is the properties inspector, which allows the user to adjust attributes associated with a particular object. The inspector palette automatically changes according to what type of object is selected on the page.
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