Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog

New Captivate simulations on the Spry framework for Ajax

2007-10-16T18:11:45Z

We've published new Captivate simulations by Mark Fletcher on the Spry framework for Ajax. These interactive tutorials simulate the Dreamweaver environment and guide you through how to use the Spry widgets, panels, effects, data sets, and more.

You can find them here.

Sincerely,
George Fox
Adobe Developer Connection

Dreamweaver Stickers from MAX

2007-10-16T01:04:03Z

At the MAX conference in Chicago we gave away thousands of square Dreamweaver stickers. If you could not attend MAX but still want some Dreamweaver stickers to put on your laptop, notebook, or other surface, send a self addressed envelop to the following address:

Heidi Voltmer
Mailbox 805
Adobe Systems
601 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

We'll send you a handful of Dreamweaver and Adobe stickers to share with friends or co-workers.

Attention Extension Developers

2007-10-01T17:15:06Z

I'm giving a presentation on Extensibility Options in Dreamweaver CS3 at MAX 2007 in a couple hours, and I've got extensibility on the brain. For those of you who are developing extensions but aren't at MAX, I wanted to ask: What kinds of extensions are you developing? What JSAPI functions (or enhancements to existing functions) do you wish were available? When trying to figure out what your options are, do you mostly search the Configuration folder for examples, read the paper version of the documentation, or search the online version?

Please let me know what you're up to in the comments, so I can get a broader picture of what's going on with those of you out there in the real world. Thanks!

Meet the Dreamweaver Team at MAX

2007-09-24T18:16:42Z

If you are coming to MAX in Chicago next week, make sure you come to the Dreamweaver Meet the Team session on Monday night from 7:30-8:30pm. At the MTT, you can meet a variety of people from the Dreamweaver team including Devin Fernandez, one of the Dreamweaver Product Managers.

If you are not attending MAX, don't worry, we will be taking pictures of the event and posting them here along with a recap of the discussion.

Check out the full schedule for other Meet the Team and Birds of a Feather sesssions at MAX.

New demo on how to use the Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3

2007-08-20T23:00:13Z

In this Adobe Captivate demo, Technical Product Manager for Dreamweaver, Scott Fegette, shows you how to setup and configure Dreamweaver CS3 to build, deploy, and preview Adobe AIR applications. Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. Check out just how easy it is to turn your Dreamweaver web sites into desktop applications.

You can find the new demo here.

Sincerely,
George Fox
Adobe Developer Center

Source Control: Do You Use It?

2007-08-13T17:12:20Z

Hi gang! I'm kicking off a new blog category with this post. It's called Real World Use, after the category we have in the Dreamweaver bugbase for issues that are found during normal use of the product (as opposed to those found during feature development or specific testing). This category will be a place for us to ask questions and get feedback about how you're using Dreamweaver in the real world, and perhaps even a place to share some inside info about how we thought you'd use the features we developed.

Let's get things started by talking about source/version control. Version control systems are absolutely vital to software development, and I think one could argue that they're just as important to managing large websites. My question is: Do you use a version control system such as CVS, Subversion, SourceSafe, or Perforce with your site? If so, is your system integrated with Dreamweaver, or do you deal with the repository separately? Are all your web files under source control, or only some of them? What are your main reasons for using source control?

If you're not using a source/version control system, why not? (I don't use one on my personal site, for example, because I'm the only one working on the site, and the overhead of setting up a system outweighs any benefit I'd gain from it.) Is putting your site under source control on your to-do list, and you just haven't gotten to it yet, or is it not even on your radar?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Talk about Dreamweaver in front of thousands of people

2007-08-10T23:40:18Z

We're looking for true Adobe enthusiasts, especially Dreamweaver users, to be interviewed on-camera for the production of a video to be shown at the annual Adobe Users Conference in Chicago - Adobe MAX.

We're looking for all types of people: average users, enthusiastic people, quirky people, people with accents, people that speak different languages, hearing impaired, physically impaired, twins, funky folks. you name it. We want a vast array of people to represent the Adobe user community.

The video is tentatively scheduled to be shot August 24th, 27th and 28th in San Francisco. We would need you for just one of those days. The shoot will be short, 1 to 2 hours maximum.

To submit yourself for consideration to be in this production please email adobecast@yahoo.com stating:

-Your occupation
-What Adobe products you use
-A recent photo or two of yourself
-Contact information

We hope to see lots of Dreamweaver users on the big screen at MAX!

New case study: Spry-based periodic table of elements application

2007-08-03T18:14:23Z

Donald Booth of Dreamweaver and Spry QA fame has a new article on the Dreamweaver Developer Center this week. In the article, Donweaver breaks down how he built the periodic table of elements using the Spry framework for Ajax. If you've been using Spry and want to take your Spry kung fu to the next level, you'll want to check out some of the intermediate/advanced techniques Donweaver uses.

You can find the article here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_periodic_case_study.html. Don't miss the cool accompanying demo of the working application.

Sincerely,
George Fox
Adobe Developer Center

A Second Look at Dreamweaver

2007-07-26T18:22:50Z

Now that Dreamweaver's in it's 9th incarnation, I was reflecting during the CS3 launch on how far it's come since version 1.0. But despite the progress, it seems that some people's perception of Dreamweaver may still be stuck back in those 1.0 days- particularly as it relates to Dreamweaver as a 'serious' development tool. With Ajax representing a new resurgence in Javascript development (and providing a neat new buzzword to replace the hated 'DHTML' curse), there's a lot more technical folks working in the HTML/CSS space writing Javascript these days.

This week the subject came up again- Dion Almaer of Ajaxian posted an article titled "Dreamweaver for Ajax... should we take it serious again?" Dion was prompted to post after his surprise at Ajax development shop Nitobi releasing extensions for Dreamweaver, including a poll to see how many of Ajaxian's readers were using Dreamweaver for Ajax development . And I have to admit- I ended up a bit surprised too. 22 percent of the respondents (at the time of this writing) used Dreamweaver as their primary development tool. This came in third behind Eclipse-based editors (24%) and bare-bones text editors like TextMate, BBEdit and TextPad (41%). For a highly technical crowd, that's a pretty darn good showing.

The comments that accompanied the Ajaxian article and poll were equally interesting. Whereas there were the expected zealots bashing 'WYSIWYG editors' in general and Dreamweaver in particular, there was also an equally strong showing of people 'coming out of the closet', so to speak- and using Dreamweaver in a variety of points in their workflow Which personally, I find answers Dion's question rather definitively. If you've dismissed Dreamweaver in the past due to it's prior shortcomings (or for the percieved street cred of a stripped down text editor), it's definitely time to take a second look.

You might also be pleasantly surprised.

Highlighting great web sites built with Dreamweaver

2007-07-25T23:45:59Z

Have you built a great web site with Dreamweaver or other Adobe products? If so, make sure you enter it for the MAX Awards! The MAX Awards are the awards given out at the MAX conference that recognize the best of the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Submissions fall into seven categories: Advertising and Branding, Communication and Collaboration, Enterprise, Mobility and Devices, Public Sector, Rich Internet Applications, and Video. The top two finalists in each category are invited to MAX to showcase their projects to all the MAX attendees. The Awards are great way to get additional exposure for projects you have completed for your own company or for a client.

The deadline for submissions is August 3, 2007 so make sure you visit the submission site soon.

New article on "Exchanging data using the Spry framework for Ajax and PHP"

2007-07-25T23:06:22Z

On Monday, we published a new article in the Dreamweaver Developer Center by Adobe Community Expert, Günter Schenk. Günter takes you through a technique he developed to create a dynamic image gallery in Dreamweaver CS3 by retrieving images from a directory and generating XML data on the fly. In addition to using the Spry framework for Ajax, Günter walks readers through some intermediate-level PHP scripts. He also provides the source code for the application so you can upload it to your PHP-enabled site and see it working.

You can find it here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_php_images.html

Stay tuned Dreamweavers. Next week we’re publishing a Spry case study by resident Spry expert “Donweaver” Booth.

Sincerely,
George Fox
Adobe Developer Center

New Developer Center tutorial on "Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver"

2007-07-19T23:11:23Z

Hi Dreamweavers,
I am one of the editors for the Adobe Developer Center. I wanted to let you know that on Monday we published a new tutorial on the Dreamweaver Developer Center on Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver. The author is Adobe's own Charles Nadeau. Charles is the Editorial Manager for Dreamweaver documentation. If you're interested in getting started developing PHP applications with Dreamweaver, this tutorial is a great place to start. You can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setting_up_php.html

I've been watching the Dreamweaver Developer Center's site traffic and people are all over PHP tutorials and articles, so I will be working on getting more PHP articles and tutorials out there for you. Keep checking back for updates. We publish new content every Monday afternoon PST.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver

Sincerely,
George Fox
Adobe Developer Center

Welcome to the Adobe Dreamweaver team blog!

2007-06-22T06:42:20Z

In this blog, various members of the team will post about a variety of topics. We will be posting tips on how to use Dreamweaver, highlighting web sites that were built with Dreamweaver, and putting up a schedule of where you can meet Dreamweaver team members in person. We will also be asking for your feedback and input. We want to know how you are using Dreamweaver, what features you would like to see in future versions of Dreamweaver, and what other web technologies you are using.

Please post comments on the the posts that you like and don’t like. We want to make our blog an essential source of Dreamweaver related news and information for you. All ideas and suggestions are welcome.

The Dreamweaver Team