[UPDATE (May 2012) – Adobe CS6 is now shipping! See all the differences between CS6 vs. CS5.5 vs. CS5…]
Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 empowers designers and developers to build standards-based websites with confidence using the industry-leading web authoring tool. Work visually or directly in code, develop with your existing content management system like WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal, and design productively with CSS inspection tools and improved Live View functions. Simplify advanced website development with integrated support for Subversion® and custom PHP code hinting. Get fast and accurate browser-compatibility testing, and test dynamic content thanks to integration with Adobe BrowserLab, a new Adobe CS Live online service*.
[UPDATE (4/11/2011) – See all the differences between Dreamweaver CS5.5 and CS5.]
Top 12 reasons to upgrade to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
- Integrated content management system support – Enjoy authoring and testing support for your existing 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.
- CSS inspection – Visually display the CSS box model in detail without reading code or requiring separate utilities. Hover your cursor over block-level elements in Live View to see their cascade and context, instead of using the Tag Selector.
- Integration with Adobe BrowserLab* – Preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools through integration with Adobe Browserlab, a new Adobe CS Live online service* that quickly and accurately tests web content across web browsers and operating systems.
- CSS properties toggle – Quickly and easily disable and re-enable CSS properties directly from the CSS Styles panel. Reduce the need to manually edit CSS code, whether inline, in the document head, or in an external style sheet.
- Enhanced support for Subversion – Manage site files more effectively in collaborative, version-controlled environments with enhanced support for Subversion software. Move, copy, and delete files locally as you would a static website, and then synchronize changes with your remote SVN repository.
- Intelligent coding assistance – Discover features designed to help you write clean code faster than ever. Take advantage of code hinting with HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax frameworks such as Spry, jQuery, and Prototype. Display proper syntax for custom PHP functions to help you write code more accurately. Rapidly build and maintain applications, and get direct insight into core PHP functions, methods, and objects with dynamic PHP code hinting.
- Site-specific code hinting – Benefit from code hinting on nonstandard files and directories in CS5, enabling enhanced hinting support for your existing third-party PHP libraries and content management system frameworks such as WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla!.
- Enhanced CSS starter pages – Jump-start your standards-based site design with updated and simplified CSS Starter Layouts. With a wider selection to choose from, the new templates incorporate evolving CSS best practices and easy-to-understand selectors and rules.
- FLV video content integration – Add Flash Video files to your web pages with point-and-click ease and standards-compliant coding. Preview your movies with FLV playback capabilities in Live View.
- Simple site setup – Set up a site in fewer steps with the retooled Site Definition dialog box in Dreamweaver CS5. Add multiple servers with custom names to utilize staged, networked, or other site types.
- Integration with Business Catalyst® – Leverage integration between Dreamweaver and the new Adobe Business Catalyst online service (available separately) to deliver powerful online businesses without programming.
- 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.
* CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time – see details.
[UPDATE (May 21st) – New HTML5 and CSS3 features just added to Dreamweaver CS5.]
Video: Dreamweaver CS5 Feature Tour
Dreamweaver CS5 System Requirements
Windows
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
- 512MB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280×800 display with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Mac OS
- Multicore Intel® processor
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
- 512MB of RAM
- 1.8GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
- 1280×800 display with 16-bit video card
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection required for online services
See Also
The CS5 Product Matrix and CS5 Price Sheet. Or, download a free trial.
