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Macromedia Flash 8 Bible

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What's New in Dreamweaver 8?

You may like to create your pages visually with drag-and-drop tools or prefer to get your hands dirty with the behind-the-scenes coding. Either way, Dreamweaver is a robust and flexible authoring tool. The new features in Dreamweaver 8 are too numerous to list here, but a few highlights include

  • Interface update: The Dreamweaver interface has been modified to make it more space efficient and intuitive. The authoring environment updates are consistent with other Studio 8 programs, but Dreamweaver has multiple modes and some special tools and panels that facilitate authoring and visualizing content in a variety of formats.

  • User-friendly coding environment: The most common code snippets are now right at your fingertips in a handy gutter toolbar along the side of the coding surface, rather than buried in menus. Code collapse can be used to hide or expand blocks of code by selection or based on tag, making it easier to stay focused when authoring and debugging.

  • Support for additional formats: Dreamweaver 8 includes updated support for ColdFusion MX 7 and PHP 5, as well as an easy dialog-driven process for adding and customizing the presentation of Flash Video content.

  • Improved CSS support: Dreamweaver 8 supports advanced CSS techniques, such as overflow, pseudo-elements, and form elements. The many panels used for working with CSS content in Flash MX 2004 have been consolidated into a new, centralized CSS panel, making it far easier to author, visualize, and render complex CSS-based layouts. You can use new design-time visual aids (that come with valuable tooltips) to outline CSS borders or color CSS layouts. Finally, the CSS style rendering toolbar supports previews of content for different CSS media types.

  • XML integration tools: You can use a simple drag-and-drop workflow to add XML-based content, such as RSS feeds. You can also use Code view to customize the translation to HTML with improved code hinting for XML and XSLT.

  • Convert or preserve Microsoft Word formatting: New pasting options enable you to retain source formatting on content created in Word or convert the text and apply existing CSS styles in the destination file.

  • Enhanced performance: As with Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8 has been re-architected and optimized to improve performance for key tasks such as opening and saving files, switching context, or jumping in and out of the program. The promises made with MX 2004 have been fully realized with Studio 8.

Web Resource 

We have highlighted only the new features most relevant to general Web authoring in Dreamweaver. For a more complete list of new features and tips on server-side topics, refer to www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver.


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     Main Menu
Table of Contents
Back Cover
Macromedia Flash 8 Bible
Foreword
Preface
Part I: An Introduction to Flash Web Production
Part II: Mastering the Flash Environment
Part III: Creating Animation and Effects
Part IV: Integrating Media Files with Flash
Part V: Adding Basic Interactivity to Flash Movies
Part VI: Distributing Flash Movies
Part VII: Approaching ActionScript
Part VIII: Applying ActionScript
Part IX: Integrating Components and Data-Binding
Part X: Expanding Flash
Chapter 36: Working with Raster Graphics
Chapter 37: Working with Vector Graphics
Chapter 38: Working with Dreamweaver 8
Why Use Dreamweaver with Flash?
What's New in Dreamweaver 8?
Importing Flash into Dreamweaver
Launch and Edit Flash from Dreamweaver
Using Built-In Flash Objects
Using Flash Elements
Adding Dreamweaver Behaviors
Site Map and Link Checker
Writing ActionScript with Dreamweaver
Summary
Part XI: Appendixes
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
List of Sidebars


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