Adobe Dreamweaver Makes Web Design a Pleasure for Professionals and First-Timers Alike

When it comes to online or traditional design, you can rely on Adobe software for ease of use, functionality, sophistication, and full technical and educational support. That's why Adobe Dreamweaver is the smartest choice for people looking for web design software.

Dreamweaver allows you to design websites two ways: visually or directly in code. Not everyone, even experienced art directors are comfortable with designing in code, so it's a major advantage for anyone contemplating designing a website to purchase software which is sophisticated and cutting edge and that is designed "for the rest of us" who may not want to write code ourselves. Dreamweaver comes complete with a large selection of professionally designed starter page templates that help you get a splash page or a full site up quickly an easily.

If you're a seasoned professional who opts to work in code to build standards-based web sites, Adobe Dreamweaver is the web authoring software most designers and developers use.

Another advantage of Dreamweaver is that it is fully integrated with the full-line of Adobe design and video software, especially Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is the leading image editing software and should remain so in the years ahead. The seamless integration with Photoshop makes it easier to design visually exciting web sites with a minimum amount of hassle.

Dreamweaver also contains a feature called Adobe Browser Lab which lets you test your web pages on multiple browsers and operating systems. This is a valuable feature, especially for novice web designers. Very often what works on Mac OSX may not work that well with other PC based operating systems. And as many web designers have found out the hard way, different web browsers ... especially Safari and Firefox have some little "quirks". Browser Lab virtually assures cross-browser and cross-operating system compatibility.

Since video is becoming an increasingly important part of web sites, Dreamweaver's video capabilities offer designers additional ease and functionality. With Dreamweaver, it is easy to import any FLV video, use whatever player skin you select and quickly have web-ready video as part of your site.

Finally, Dreamweaver is perhaps the best- supported software available. If you need tech support, Adobe provides some of the best support available. The tutorials and training available from Adobe also is superior to that available with other software. In the event you need third-party instruction, there are more books and guides written on Dreamweaver than on any other web design software.

As a creative director, my experience with Dreamweaver has been only favorable. It proves to be far superior to other web design software I've tried.