Dreamweaver CS3 enables you to design, develop, andmaintain websites faster and more easily than ever before.Whether creating visually or coding directly, intelligentintegration with related Adobe Creative Suite® 3 softwaremeans unprecedented efficiency.
Enhance your creativity and accelerate your workflow with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3software. Go from start to finish with an intuitive visual layout interface, streamlinedcoding environment, and advanced integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, AdobeFireworks® CS3, Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional, and Adobe Contribute® CS3 software.
Dreamweaver CS3 is an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, Web Standard,and Design Premium software. The Creative Suite 3 family of software empowers creativeprofessionals and developers to experience an uninterrupted flow of energy and ideas frominitial concept to polished final execution across print, video, web, and mobile devices. Theend-to-end integration is the core of what makes Creative Suite uniquely powerful—creativeprofessionals and developers remain focused on their vision and achieve the highest qualityresults in less time.
With Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, you can:
Create rich web content—A higher standard in web design and development is emerging,powered by Dreamweaver CS3. Create richer, more dynamic interfaces that seamlesslyweave static structures together with responsive interactivity. Use the new Spry frameworkfor Ajax to develop energetic web experiences that will leave your competition standing still.
Discover true efficiency—Accelerate every aspect of your workflow with Dreamweaver CS3.Drop in Flash video, add a Photoshop image, and take control of your CSS, all before you finishyour first cup of coffee. Create visually or code directly, work on Mac or Microsoft® Windows,®and enjoy all the benefits of integration with your other favorite Adobe tools.
Apply best practices—Even the greatest imagination must have methods. Dreamweaver CS3makes it easy to apply best practices and accepted standards to ensure your websites andapplications play well with others. Effortlessly include CSS from the ground up with new CSSlayouts, the unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools. Use the new Browser CompatibilityCheck feature and the comprehensive Adobe CSS Advisor website to not only find, butsolve problems. Instantly preview your content for mobile devices with Adobe Device Central.

Top new features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3:

The new features in Dreamweaver CS3 allow you to create engaging, interactive web sitesacross any operating system, browser, or platform without getting caught up in the complexitiesof the code. Numerous enhancements throughout the application make Dreamweavereasier to use and allow you to develop content faster than ever before. The following is adetailed overview of the top new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3.
Spry framework for Ajax
Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a development technique forcreating interactive web applications. Ajax makes web pages feel more responsive, becausethe entire web page does not have to reload each time the user interacts with it. The result isan increase in the web page’s interactivity, speed, and usability.
With Dreamweaver CS3, you can visually design, develop, and deploy dynamic user interfacesusing the Spry framework for Ajax. The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library forweb designers that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for theirusers. Unlike other Ajax frameworks, Spry is accessible to both designers and developers alike,as 99% of it is actually HTML. That means just about anyone can build pages that provide aricher experience for their audience without complicated coding.
Spry widgets
With Dreamweaver CS3, you can add common user interface components to web pages usingSpry widgets. Spry widgets are pre-built components for creating common user interfaceelements that you can customize using CSS, and then add to your web pages. They includeXML-driven lists and tables, accordions, tabbed interfaces, and form elements withvalidation. Until now, these objects have been difficult to build and required advancedcoding skills. Spry widgets make it easier to build out and incorporate advanced interfaceelements into web pages, and are very flexible; new users will appreciate their simplicity,and seasoned coders will appreciate the level of customizability they offer.
Spry effects
Easily add visual transitions to page elements with Spry effects. Effects are a simple, elegantway of enhancing the look and feel of your website. You can apply effects to almost anyelement on an HTML page. Effects don’t require any server-side logic or scripting to work, sowhen a person viewing your web page browses an HTML page and triggers an effect, only theobject to which the effect is applied gets updated; the entire page doesn’t need to refresh.
With Spry effects you can make elements to make them grow, shrink, fade, highlight, andmore. For example, an effect might highlight information, create animated transitions, orvisually alter a page element for a certain period of time.
Spry effects enable you to easily applycool transitions and animations—without the need for any coding onyour part. It’s just as easy as adding adrop shadow effect in Photoshop.
Advanced Photoshop CS3 integration
As an integral part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 software, Dreamweaver CS3 features enhanced integration with Photoshop CS3 and Fireworks CS3. Designers and developers are now free to use the applications they feel most comfortable with, and still be able to work within the powerful design and development environment of Dreamweaver without sacrifice.
Adobe travels the world visiting users, gathering useful suggestions, and making note of how both designers and developers use software to get their work done. Adobe came to realize that many were struggling with the difficulty in moving content from full-page design mock-ups in Photoshop into Dreamweaver. With Dreamweaver CS3, copying and pasting content from Photoshop just got a whole lot easier—and far more powerful than ever before.
Now, designers can simply select any portion of a design in Photoshop—even across multiple layers—and paste it directly into a Dreamweaver page. Dreamweaver will present a dialog box where you can specify optimization options for the image. No further work is necessary. The best part? Should you ever need to edit the image, simply double-click on the image, and the original layered PSD file opens in Photoshop for editing.
Browser Compatibility Check
If you’ve ever added the line “This site best viewed in..” to your site, you know how difficult it can be to ensure a consistent experience across multiple browsers on a variety of operating systems. Besides the extra time it takes to test your code on multiple platforms, keeping up with the latest versions of browsers and their capabilities can be a frustrating experience.
The new Browser Compatibility Check feature in Dreamweaver CS3—which generates reports that identify CSS-related issues in a variety of browsers—can handle all of the browser-related details, allowing you to focus on creating great-looking sites. To reduce browser errors, Dreamweaver CS3 provides a page report that flags browser compatibility issues. In code view, issues are flagged with green underlining, so you know exactly where the problem is. Once the problem has been identified, you can quickly fix it.
Adobe CSS Advisor
Because technology changes so quickly, browser issues and possible code fixes have to be updated on a constant basis. That’s why Dreamweaver provides links to the new Adobe CSS Advisor website when offering solutions and tips for problems found during the Browser Compatibility Check process. Adobe CSS Advisor contains information on the latest issues, offers helpful tips and suggestions, and is maintained by and for the user community. Users can add their own CSS issues, make comments and rate entries. More than a forum, a wiki, or a discussion group, CSS Advisor makes it easy for you to comment with suggestions, and improvements to existing content, or to add new issues for the benefit of the entire community.

Not everyone can create the right CSS rules, in the right place, on the first try. To get things right, it’s often necessary to move, rename, or otherwise change the structure of your CSS. Additionally, many people like to introduce CSS changes incrementally to a site, first by getting the CSS working on a single page, and then working on the entire site. Others prefer to step back further and get the CSS working on a single element before trying to make it work for a whole page. The Manage CSS feature makes it easier for you to move CSS rules from document to document, from the head of a document to an external sheet, between external CSS files, and more. You can also convert inline CSS to CSS rules, and place them where you need them—just by dragging and dropping.

Integrated with Dreamweaver CS3 as well as throughout the family of Creative Suite 3 software, Adobe Device Central simplifies the creation of mobile content with built-in mobile device skins and regularly updated device profiles. Besides the ability to quickly access essential technical specifications for each device, Adobe Device Central displays HTML content and allows you to scroll using the buttons on the device. The Small Screen Rendering (SSR) mode will shrink the text and images to show accurate rendering as it would appear on the device. Now you can easily design, preview, and test engaging mobile content and rich user interfaces.

Use Dreamweaver CS3 with Adobe Bridge CS3 for easy and consistent management of images and assets. Adobe Bridge provides centralized access to your project files, applications, and settings, along with XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos, at your fingertips all the time, Adobe Bridge provides a more efficient creative workflow and keeps you on top of your print, web, video, and mobile projects.

Adobe Bridge CS3 also introduces Bridge Home, a destination for up-to-date information about all your Creative Suite 3 software. Visit Bridge Home to watch the latest video tutorials on Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, and others; listen to a podcast with a leading designer; or learn about upcoming training events in your community. Discover the tips and resources that will help you work faster and smarter, making the most of your Adobe products.