Over the past few days I have been fiddling around with the brand new Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 package… and wow I am impressed. Let me put it this way - anyone who uses the 2004 suite must upgrade to CS3.
2004 was slow, buggy, slow, and oh did I mention slow? The thing was slow as hell! Heck, the trial version of it brought both of my computers to a screeching halt and crashed 5 minutes after I installed it.
I haven’t had those problems with CS3… the entire thing runs so much faster, and in the few days of using the trial version I have yet to see it crash. The only thing I am disappointed with is the interface was really not updated at all, but oh well, that negative was definitely offset by the great new features.
For starters, it gives you many more options when creating a new file, and all pre-built layouts use CSS and are completely standards based - a big plus. Let me put it this way, this is part of the new file dialog box:
CS3 also gives you access to a well built framework called Spry. It lets you use a bunch of pre-built AJAX scripts that let you do stuff like form validation, integrate XML data, create dynamic menus, and so much more.
As I said above, anyone who uses Dreamweaver MX 2004 (or any version) must upgrade now - it is just that good. And that is saying a lot, I have previously said that I would stick with Dreamweaver MX, but now I am seriously thinking about buying this as soon as I get enough cash.
You can download the trial version of Dreamweaver CS3 from Adobe’s Dreamweaver page.
If you have tried CS3 out feel free to share your thoughts.
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May 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I have the whole MX package, but I’m waiting fro the Adobe CS3 Pro Suit. I want to see some comments on that package first.
I like the idea of AJAX in DW, that sounds great. Looking forward to that!
I actually never used any of the pre-made-templates at all. All my designs are from scratch so all them extra CSS template mean nothing to me.
Looking forward to the full pack with Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Freehand, and so on.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’ll probably still get a new computer before I upgrade.
My ibook is going on 3 years, and my desktop is about 2.5 years old. Dreamweaver ran really nice, but I do quite a bit of photoshop and that absolutely kills both computers lol. Can’t even imagine how badly Photoshop CS3 would run on these.
Not to mention program compilation is slow as heck.