Macromedia DreamweaverMX 2004 provides more powerful visual design tools, application development environment and code editing support. It enables developers and designers to quickly create code-standard applications with a very high degree of integration and a streamlined and efficient development environment. Developers can use Dreamweaver and their server technology to build powerful network applications that connect to users' data. Network service system.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides powerful specification management to ensure high-quality design. The design environment provides CSS to quickly and efficiently develop sites with concise code and professional specifications.
A brief introduction to the new features of Dreamweaver MX 2004 is as follows:
1. Combine the world-class "design" and "code" editors into one to refine the source code in the design window, allowing you to customize your user interface according to your work needs.
2. Use rich CSS style sheets to support the construction of complex, standard sites. It also provides a wealth of tools for quick selection and style attribute control tools.
3. Cross-browser validity check:
Automatically check the cross-browser validity (compatibility) of the current document when saving. You can specify which browser is the test browser and automatically check to determine whether the page has a target browser. Unsupported tags or CSS structures. The dynamic cross-browser validity check function can automatically check whether tags and CSS rules are suitable for the current main browser (compatibility).
4. Use the built-in graphics editing program to save development time.
Some auxiliary image editing functions such as cropping and zooming can be completed without leaving Dreamweaver. The editing tool is embedded Macromedia Fireworks technology.
5. Create a more applicable user interface.
In design mode, developers can preview data without a fixed browser, and use the Live Data window to preview real-time data.
7. More functional CSS support, CSS visual design CSS inspection tool:
Use the redesigned Tag inspection tool in the design window to detect which CSS rule applies to the current selection. It is very easy to create layout design configurations in CSS. Select divs and other block elements in the design window and then use the CSS rule checker tool to modify their properties. Click on any CSS rule to view detailed descriptions of its properties (such as border style, margin, padding or text size). The instant editing function allows you to instantly see the changes in the design window while editing CSS.
9. Improved intuitive CSS application effects:: The enhanced design window allows you to directly see the effects of complex CSS settings, enabling more precise and practical visual operations.
10. Improved CSS panel:
Use the enhanced panel to define styles directly inside the code, and you can intuitively see where what styles are defined.
11. Improved CSS inspection tool based on text properties:
You do not need to switch the editing mode to directly select CSS styles. A preview display of all available styles is built into the style drop-down list.
12. New CSS based on page properties:
Get more improved page control properties such as titles and connections, etc. through the page properties dialog box (Modify -> Page Properties).
13. CSS code prompts:
Quickly view the manually written CSS style prompts in the code window, or call up the code prompts by the Ctrl/Space key.
14. Use a complete integrated development environment to develop HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, Microsoft ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, and Macromedia ColdFusion sites. Through the Macromedia Plug-in Center you can get more than 800 free plug-ins to customize and extend your development environment.
15. FTP security: All transferred files are fully encrypted and unauthorized access to your information, file contents, usernames and passwords is prevented.
16. Seamless integration of external documents/code.
Copy and paste directly from Microsoft Word and Excel into Dreamweaver while saving fonts, colors and CSS styles. Perfect support for Unicode, supporting the use and storage of any font and encoding (including double-byte characters).
17. Enhance the ability to integrate with other MX software products, including Flash, Fireworks and other Macromedia Studio MX 2004 design and development tools.
18.Microsoft ASP.NET Form control object: Use the improved ASP.NET object and property inspection tools to build and operate Microsoft ASP.NET web forms.
19. Updated content reference:
O'Reilly's SQL and PHP related information can be obtained in the dreamweaver MX 2004 reference panel.
20. PHP server behavior:
Rewritten PHP syntax and server behavior, including Master-Detail page setting module, user ID verification module, etc.
21. Support Macromedia Flash elements:
Through built-in Flash components, Dreamweaver MX 2004 increases the interactivity of the page. Importing a Flash component is as easy as customizing a label.
22. MX HTML components:
Use MX components (including buttons, templates) to quickly build effective user interfaces
23. Improved table editing tools
24. More reliable and practical FTP client program
25. Modified insert panel
26. Efficient file editing process.
27. More effective code editing:
like the coding tool that pops up by right-clicking, the updated query and replacement tool, more search options and the ability to save search conditions, and the property inspection tool that can be launched quickly,
28. Detailed properties Edit:
Build an exhaustive edit with the property inspection tool: Lists every available markup attribute that applies to the current selection.
29. Find things faster with an improved user interface, more clear display of context and focus, and quick access to recently used documents and tutorial resources.