Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
What’s New
Last updated 3/28/2012
What’s new (CS5)
Adobe BrowserLab
Dreamweaver CS5 integrates with Adobe BrowserLab, one of the new CS Live online services, which provides a fast
and accurate solution for cross-browser compatibility testing. With BrowserLab you can preview web pages and local
content using multiple viewing and comparison tools. See
“BrowserLab” on page 464.
Business Catalyst integration
Adobe Business Catalyst is a hosted application that replaces traditional desktop tools with one, central platform for
web designers. The application works hand-in-hand with Dreamweaver, and lets you build everything from basic data-
driven websites to powerful online stores. See
http://www.adobe.com/go/business_catalyst_get_extension_en.
CSS enhancements
CSS Disable/Enable
CSS Disable/Enable lets you disable and re-enable CSS properties directly from the CSS Styles panel. Disabling a CSS
property simply comments out the specified property without actually deleting it. See
“Disable/Enable CSS” on
page 139.
CSS Inspection
Inspect mode lets you visually display the CSS box model properties—including padding, border, and margin—in
detail without reading code or requiring a separate third-party utility such as Firebug. See
“Inspect CSS in Live view”
on page 139.
CSS starter layouts
Dreamweaver CS5 includes updated and simplified CSS starter layouts. The complex descendent selectors from the
CS4 layouts have been removed and replaced with simplified, easy-to-understand classes. See
“Create a page with a
CSS layout” on page 148.
Dynamically-Related Files
The Dynamically-Related Files feature lets you discover all of the external files and scripts necessary to assemble PHP-
based Content Management System (CMS) pages, and displays their filenames in the Related Files toolbar. By default
Dreamweaver supports file discovery for the Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla! CMS frameworks. See
“Open
Dynamically-Related Files” on page 67.
Live view navigation
Live view navigation activates links in Live view, allowing you to interact with server-side applications and dynamic
data. The feature also allows you to enter a URL to inspect pages served from a live web server and edit pages you have
browsed to if they exist in one of your locally defined sites. See
“Previewing pages in Dreamweaver” on page 272.
PHP custom class code hinting
PHP custom class code hinting displays the proper syntax for PHP functions, objects, and constants, helping you type
more accurate code. Code hinting also works with your own custom functions and classes, as well as third-party
frameworks, such as the Zend framework.