Industry-leading web development environment
Build standards-based websites with the industry-leading web authoring tool. Work visually or directly in code, design productively with CSS inspection tools, and develop with content management systems.
Adobe Creative Suite integration
Save time and reduce the number of steps required to complete projects with intelligent integration across Adobe® Flash® Professional, Fireworks®, Photoshop® Extended, and Adobe CS Live online services.* CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Intelligent coding assistance
Write clean code faster than ever. Take advantage of code hinting with HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax frameworks such as Spry, jQuery, and Prototype. Get direct insight into core PHP functions, methods, and objects with dynamic PHP code hinting.
Integrate FLV content
Add FLV files to any web page with point-and-click ease and standards-compliant coding. Preview your movies with FLV playback capabilities in Live View.
Site-specific code hinting
Benefit from code hinting on nonstandard files and directories in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5, enabling enhanced hinting support for third-party PHP libraries and CMS frameworks such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla!.
Extended Dreamweaver community
Learn and share with an extensive Dreamweaver community. Benefit from the online Adobe Design Center and Adobe Developer Connection, training and seminars, developer certification programs, and user forums.
Integrated CMS support
Enjoy authoring and testing support for content management system frameworks like WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal. Dynamically Related Files provides direct access to a page's related files, even for dynamic pages, and Live View Navigation offers accurate previews of dynamic applications.
Comprehensive CSS support
Design and develop websites with powerful CSS tools. Visually display the CSS box model without requiring separate utilities, and reduce the need to manually edit CSS code, even in external style sheets.
Support for leading technologies
Design and develop in an environment that supports most leading web development technologies, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion® software, and ASP.
Adobe BrowserLab integration
Preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools. BrowserLab is a new CS Live online service that quickly and accurately tests web content across web browsers and operating systems.
