Nice software combo for making websites. Dreamweaver 3 is more polished and mature version of already good Dreamweaver2, Fireworks is a unique vector/raster hybrid with an ability to add hyperlinks to parts of your image and export it as a bundle of HTML tables and sub-images (results look neat even 20 years later, especially with wide availability of broadband).
Serial numbers are included — unzip and mount, there's a text file.
The Web design world considered Dreamweaver 2 a godsend, and it became one of the first graphical HTML editors to earn praise from (and to be used by) professional Webmasters. While perhaps not quite as revolutionary, Dreamweaver 3 nevertheless successfully builds on its foundation, adding enough new features and functionality to distinguish itself as a very worthy upgrade. The program retains the user-friendly interface and clean code generation from version 2, and now features powerful customization, two new object palettes, an option to import delimited data, and a way to play Flash and QuickTime movies while designing. Dreamweaver 3 is a must-have app for Web designers of any level.
Dreamweaver 3’s two entirely new palettes are Frames and Characters. While we’re required by decency to denounce any design heretic who would dare to use frames, it is worthwhile to note here that the new Frames palette has some pretty sophisticated creation options, including an option to create a four-page frame set with a small frame in the upper-left comer of the page. The Character palette houses hard-to-create symbols including smart quotes, the copyright sign, and the em dash.
In addition to the new palettes, the Dreamweaver 3 Common Objects palette is more robust than its predecessor. An Insert Date option, when selected, prompts the user to choose a date and time option from a list of standard types. An Insert Mail Link option takes the user through a wizard to create a mail-to link. For easy access, a new icon for sister Macromedia program Fireworks... joins the ubiquitous Flash and Shockwave icons. The Insert Tabular Data button is the most exciting addition to this palette. In one easy step, users can import delimited data, set it up in rows and columns, and define the parameters of the HTML table. We used this feature with great success on several different sites.
That’s not to say there aren’t still problems with the application. Tables still resize somewhat randomly, and the Clear Row Height and Gear Column Width buttons often offer less of a solution than they promise. You’ll still also have troubles with invisible elements splitting your paragraph text, including the icons for alignment tags.
The Play button in the Properties palette lets you play rich media such as QuickTime and Flash directly firom the design view. Since it doesn’t support some of Flash 4’s more advanced features (such as input fields for variables), only basic animations actually work. We got mixed results when playing QuickTime movies as well. When this feature does work, though, it’s handy to be able to play multimedia while designing.
For hard-coding enthusiasts, Dreamweaver 3 adds increased functionality to its already robust WYSIWYG and hard-code relationship. You can invoke the Quick Tag Editor by simply highlighting an area of code and pressing Command-T. The selected code appears, ready for editing.
Ultimately, Macromedia’s goal with Dreamweaver has always been to create a Web-design WYSIWYG tool that can meet nearly anyone’s needs, and Dreamweaver 3 works to further that vision. The newly added History palette demonstrates this point perfectly. On the most basic level, this palette allows users to undo over 50 previous actions taken in page creation and modification. For advanced users, the History palette can highlight and replay various steps of actions.
But it doesn’t stop there. An option in the History palette lets you save a series of steps as a command, which you can place in the Commands menu in the pull-down menu bar for future use. These customized commands are written as JavaScripts and stored as HTML documents.
Advanced users can go one step further by using Extensible Markup Language (XML) to open and customize Dreamweaver menus. The Design Notes feature (under the File menu) uses XML extensively to let users attach notes to a file shared by groups of users. This feature enhances communication between multiple parties working on the same pages in different locations. Plus, a Synchronize Site command lets you sync files between local and remote sites.
For the average user, Dreamweaver is an easy-to-use, powerful Web page creation tool that has some cool new features. For the large-scale site development team with an in-house programmer, Dreamweaver supports nearly limitless customization. It has a lot to offer almost everyone.
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We’ve all been there — begging Photoshop and its myriad of tools, filters, fills, and effects to help us make that perfect button. Wouldn’t it be nice, we thought, if there were some easier way to make simple graphics for the Web? Enter Fireworks. Its toolbar is easy to understand; its Stroke and Fill palettes are easily navigable; and its effects (especially the bevels) are stunning. While it is certainly not a Photoshop replacement, its vector drawing environment takes some of the pain out of creating and optimizing graphics for your Web site.
For those unfamihar with this application, with Fireworks you can quickly create Web-ready graphics, basic Web animation using tweening, JavaScript rollovers, and sliced graphics. It also has some great optimization features.
Fireworks 3 boasts several cool new features. The new work stage now has four tabs: Original (the primary editing stage), Preview (for viewing rollovers and anima- tions without leaving the main work stage), 2-Up (for viewing a graphic at two different color depths, compression settings, and download speeds), and 4-Up (for viewing four such combinations). A surprising addition in the 2-Up and 4-Up windows is the lossy GIF compressor, which omits image information and reduces image qualify. While the concept of lossy compression on a line-art graphic runs somewhat counter to common sense, if you use it sparingly this option can save a lot of download time on graphics-intensive Web pages.
Avid Adobe fans will like Fireworks 3. To start, Photoshop layers and text remain editable when you open them in Fireworks. Also, by pointing Fireworks to your Photoshop plug-ins folder, you can apply Photoshop filters to graphics while still in Fireworks. Fireworks 3 can also export graphics into Illustrator format.
Fireworks strives to be a one-stop shopping graphics program for Web developers — integrating the basics of HTML code, JavaScript, vector and bitmapped graphics, and animation. In some ways it is successful; no other single program offers such nice scripting features coupled with such a friendly drawing environment. But Fireworks doesn’t replace the need for the other graphics, Web editing, and animation programs out there; you’ll still need to learn Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator. In fact, a thorough understanding of these programs renders Fireworks almost completely superfluous. It’s a good tool for beginners and can be very useful for making quick graphics and sliced images. Plus, the added integration with Dreamweaver... certainly adds to its appeal. Intermediate and advanced Web designers, however, may find its environment hmiting and its features redundant.
Higdon, Jude. (April 2000). Dreamweaver 3 Fireworks 3 Studio. MacAddict. (pgs. 48-50).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
SheepShaver
