The first new feature updates for
Dreamweaver CC have arrived and this popular web design tool is promising.
Back in May, Adobe announced the release of new updates
for the CC version of Adobe Dreamweaver. It also announced that all new
versions of its CS software products would now be launched exclusively on the
Creative Cloud subscription services.
Adobe promised web designers that they
would be getting new features for their software all through the year rather
than waiting for the release of a boxed version every 12 months. So users of
Adobe’s best known software tool for creating, publishing and managing
websites, Dreamweaver
CC, have been waiting eagerly for this update.
The updates are now here and Adobe is promising
a number of new features and improvements and they include:
Live Highlight
Live Highlight is an impressive feature
that allows web designers to visualise the relationships between HTML elements
in Live View and applied CSS Selectors. Designers can now inspect and highlight
the HTML elements in real-time. So this allows you to spend more time in CC and
less switching in and out of your browser to test your content. This saves you
time and means you can complete your work faster and improves all-round efficiency.
To see Live Highlight in action, simply hover and click Selectors in the CSS
Designers.
Modernised Live View
Modernised Live View is another new feature
that has been introduced in CC and it provides an integrated rendering engine with
a similar performance and HTML5 & CSS3 support as the Chrome Browser. This
means you can test your designs without leaving the application and this saves
you a lot of time.
Sync Settings
Sync Settings is a feature already
available for Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and has recently been added to
In Design. This feature has now been introduced in Dreamweaver CC and enables
designers to sync work spaces, keyboard shortcuts and more between multiple PCs
via the Cloud.
Adobe recognised the bloating in the
software that affected earlier versions and they have removed redundant parts
of the application and this includes 10 panels, 14 dialog boxes and more than
62 menu items have been removed thus far. The hope is that this new simplified
User Interface will improve the workflow.
Additional updates include:
·
Code View has received line
number highlighting and the highlighting of matching tags as well as CSS
Selector code hints including support for colour customisation.
·
Adobe has added support for PHP
5.4 and the jQuery Mobile Library has now been updated to version 1.8.3.
·
Adobe includes a colour picker
feature which promises to speed up visual CSS editing workflows.
Adobe are promising that the update of
Dreamweaver will be an ongoing process and the Creative Cloud release schedule
may have saved the software from the trashcan.
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