Dreamweaver 4.0 new features full touch

Dreamweaver Macromedia Company released the Dreamweaver 4.0 on November 13, 2000, its appearance put Dreamweaver's competitors far behind, sitting on the top of the visual editing software, As the Dreamweaver 3.0 Upgrade Product Dreamweaver 4.0 does not have a qualitative leap, It basically maintained the Dreamweaver3.0 interface style, the only difference is a few more floating panels, if not too careful to think it is dreamweaver3.0,dreamweaver4.0 what new things? Let me give you a detailed introduction to Dreamweaver4.0 new features.

I. Consolidated Text Code Editor
The biggest inconvenience of visualizing web page editing software is the difficulty of editing source code, let alone javascript! However, DW4 (abbreviated to Dreamweaver 4.0) will make it very easy for you to handle the code. The main new features of this built-in text editor are: Brake indentation (You can select multiple rows at a time) and sign detection, which prompts you if you write code that forgets a "</body>". The Drop-down menu in the tool list lists all the custom JavaScript functions in the current web, allowing you to jump freely in the original code of the Web page, which allows professionals to easily handle JavaScript functions and enter JavaScript code into the text editor. The system will be displayed in a different color.

two. Display code edit box and layout design box at the same time
To enhance source code editing and visualization, you can edit code and visual design in the same window in DW4, which greatly improves the efficiency of web design. However, the editing state can be divided into two types in DW4, one is the source code edit State, the other is the visual editing state. Either way, if you make a change to one of these, it can be immediately reflected to another. Instead of switching between the two states. You can combine these two states in a single window, and of course you can put them in a window.

three. Javascript Editor
Its main functions include step-by-Step execution of program code, skipping functions, jumping, setting breakpoints, and variables to observe. The Javascript editor is especially important to professional designers when you can make your Web page go wrong when it is executed.

four. Internal O ' Reilly reference manual
Macromedia the complete HTML,CSS and JavaScript reference manuals in Danny Goodman's dynamic HTML: Authoritative reference manual into DW4, which makes handwriting code and visual editing easier and more comfortable. The placement of the reference manual can help the novice developers to learn the code more easily or easier to obtain relevant information. For example, developers can highlight a tag in their own code, click a button, and reference information about the tag--including attributes and browser compatibility--will be displayed in O ' Reilly's window. The built in O ' Reilly reference manual will be a breakthrough for DW4.

Five. Edit non-HTML file
Built-in text editor, in addition to editing HTML, it can also edit some non-HTML, such as JavaScript, XML or any other plain text, in the original code editing state can be directly edited.

Six. Super strong page Typesetting function
There are generally two ways to compose a Web Page object: tables, layers, the two methods have their advantages and disadvantages, DW4 's layout view technology can easily combine the advantages of both, we can safely use, with this function to write the Web page, any browser compatible, a solution to your worries. DW4 provides two types of visual editing, one is that we are familiar with the old layout, the other is a new layout format. It presents a new page layout concept that makes it easy for you to drag out complex transparent tables (which is difficult in DW3) and has no redundant code, which is Macromedia's consistent style.

Seven. Macromedia Flash Text and button
Flash animation has always been a great delight to have a small file, the effect is good, and can be done with the window size without distortion of scaling, these are due to the use of the advantages of vector graphs. Using this new feature of DW4, even if you do not use Flash can also be inserted directly into the DW Flash animation format text or buttons, as long as a simple input text can be, compared to the traditional bitmap text or buttons, files smaller, more beautiful effect. Unfortunately, the current Flash text and buttons do not support Chinese, I believe this problem will be solved in the near future, how Macromedia will abandon China's huge market.

eight. Bidirectional drawing editor
We all know that in firework after the partition of the graphic save, you can use the DW "Insert Firework Html" object will be the graphics, html,javascript Insert, further, in the DW Select Firework Table Press Edit, Can immediately start firework and the original PNG file open edit, this is very convenient, but DW4 firework and Dreamweaver combined more closely, in the firework edit the picture without saving, just click "Return Dreamweaver button, you can immediately switch to the DW, and all the changes have been saved, of course, you can easily switch to firework in the DW.

Nine. Resource Management
Make a website often use a lot of files, often feel easily lost confused do not know how to manage it? The new resource management panel centralizes the content of the entire site to preview and manage all graphics, colors, external URLs, scripts, flash,shockwave,quicktime,css, and more. If you set an object to "favorite" (Favorites), you can use these objects across sites.

10. Integrating SourceSafe and WebDAV
DW4 now integrates Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, an advanced version control software so that a large development team can use DW as the standard development tool for HTML, in addition, DW4 's Web site Windows can also be paired with content management systems or Web servers that support WebDAV protocols. WebDAV is the standard established by the consortium, which is supported by Windows IIS 5 or Apache.

11. Website report
The website report can help you find the General FAQ in the Web page and let you fix it quickly. For example: You can merge some nested <font> tags, empty tags, and so on, this feature will be the site you define a comprehensive check, it lists all the problematic pages for you to modify, this feature is very thoughtful.

12. Built-in Email
The built-in email feature makes it easier for you to communicate with members of the Web development team more quickly, and when a file is edited by someone, just press his name to send him an email. As long as everyone defines their Email in the workflow of the Site Definition dialog box.

13. Integrated Macromedia Exchange
The main function of Macromedia Exchange is to download the plugin provided by the official DW, which is not available in DW3 and requires a patch to be installed. And DW4 has already integrated Macromedia Exchange, which is very convenient.

Summary
Or the beginning of the article that sentence, the introduction of DW4 is not a qualitative leap, but there are some notable highlights, I summed up the following points to share with you:
1.DW4 Organic web System to do "Three Musketeers" (dreamweaver,flash,firework) combined to make their coordination more harmonious, especially the integration of some of the functions of Flash, although very few but very practical.
2. This DW4 has improved the function of team development, which is very important to the large network company to do website development, I very much appreciate its built-in email function, a software can do so fine, really commendable.
3. The processing of the source code has been DW3 weakness, the emergence of DW4 greatly improved its ability to deal with the source code, its main performance in the JavaScript debugging, do a very professional, you can say that DW4 is a better JavaScript program development environment, if you do not know the source code too much , which provides you with comprehensive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code references.
4. Jump bones in eggs. To my disappointment, DW4 still has poor support for Chinese, and some of the new features do not support Chinese.