Dreamweaver MX 2008 delivers powerful, standards-based controls to ensure high quality design. A design environment built around Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enables faster and more efficient development of clean-coded, professional sites.

Use a world-class design and code editor in one tool. Dive right into source code, manipulate pixel-perfect designs in Design view, or do a little of both. With a customizable user interface, you can work the way you need to.

Build sophisticated, standards-based sites with rich CSS support. Design and render intricate CSS-based layouts and designs more easily and precisely that ever before. Save time with rich tools that allow for quick selection and control of page and site wide style properties.

Improve end-user experience with a dynamic cross-browser validation feature that automatically checks tags and CSS rules for compatibility across all the leading browsers.

Save time with a built-in graphics editor. Crop, resize, and make minor edits without leaving Dreamweaver by using built-in Macromedia Fireworks technology.

Create better user interfaces without constant browser checks with a Live Data View that allows applications developers to see live server-side data while in design mode.

Powerful and open integration

Dreamweaver MX 2008 is open and extensible with the products and technologies you use, giving you the freedom and flexibility to choose the technology that works best for you – today, and in the future.

Use one integrated development environment to develop HTML, XHTML, XML, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, and Macromedia ColdFusion websites. Customize and extend the development environment with more than 800 free extensions available through the Macromedia Exchange for Dreamweaver.

Leverage Secure FTP to fully encrypt all file transfers and prevent unauthorized access to your data, file contents, usernames, and passwords.

Seamlessly integrate external files and code. Copy and paste from Microsoft Word and Excel documents directly into Dreamweaver while preserving fonts, colors, and CSS styles. Leverage full Unicode support to use, render, and save any font and encoding supported by the operating system, including double-byte character sets.

Enhance productivity with tighter integration with Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and other design and development tools in the Macromedia Studio MX 2008 suite.

Create accessible websites to comply with U.S. law and international standards, using compliance-checking features for pages and sites, in-product reference content, and an active authoring mode for accessibility.

Streamlined development

Find what you need fast, increasing your performance, productivity, and quality of work. Leverage the professional-quality, pre-built layouts and code in Dreamweaver to get sites and applications up and running quickly.

Manage the basics better with improved table editing tools, a robust more reliable FTP client, an updated insert bar that provides a customizable ‘favorites’ area, and a streamlined file editing process that speeds up file downloads and replacements.

Code more efficiently with time-saving enhancements like right click coding tools, revamped find and replace, and a Property inspector that enables quick, comprehensive property editing.

Find things faster with an improved user interface that maximizes the usable workspace, shows context and focus more clearly, and is highly approachable and logical. A new start screen provides quick access to recently used files and tutorial resources.

Jumpstart design and production using professional-quality, pre-built layouts and code, including site structures, forms, accessible templates, and JavaScript functions for client-side interactivity. Create new sites with a Site Setup Wizard and enhance team content collaboration with support of Macromedia Contribute.