Description from the Publisher:

Dreamweaver is the professional choice for building web sites and applications. It provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features and code editing support, enabling developers and designers at every skill level to create visually appealing, standards-based sites and applications quickly! Dreamweaver provides the control of an HTML text editor, and support for Dynamic HTML in one professional, easy-to-use package.

From leading support for CSS-based design to hand-coding features, Dreamweaver provides the tools professionals need in an integrated, streamlined environment.

Developers can use Dreamweaver with the server technology of their choice to build powerful Internet applications that connect users to databases, web services and legacy systems.

New Features:

• New Dynamic Cross-Browser Validation - Automatically check tags and CSS rules for compatibility across all the leading browsers!
• Richer, More Powerful CSS Support - Create sophisticated, standards-based sites. Design and render intricate CSS-based layouts and designs more easily and precisely than ever before!
• Built-In Graphics Editing - Crop, resize and make minor edits without leaving Dreamweaver by using built-in Macromedia Fireworks technology!
• Secure FTP - Fully encrypt all file transfers and prevent unauthorised access to your data, file contents, usernames and passwords with Secure FTP!
• Increased Support for Today's Technologies - Continue to work in a platform-independent development environment that supports ColdFusion, J2EE, PHP, .NET and all other leading server technologies.
• Dreamweaver now incorporates XML namespace support, ASP.NET form control objects, new reference content and new PHP server behaviours!
• Seamless Integration with External Files and Code - Copy and paste from Microsoft Word and Excel documents directly into Dreamweaver while preserving fonts, colours, and CSS styles!
• Tighter Integration with Other Macromedia Tools - Enhance productivity with tighter integration with Macromedia Flash, Fireworks and other design and development tools in the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 suite!
• Improved Support for the Basics - Manage the basics better with improved table editing tools, an updated insert bar that provides a customisable 'favourites' area and a streamlined file editing process that speeds up file downloads and replacements!
• Enhanced Coding Tools - Code more efficiently with time-saving enhancements like right click coding tools, revamped find and replace and a selection inspector that enables quick, comprehensive property editing!

Key Features:

State Of The Art Design Tools
Dreamweaver MX 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!
• 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!
• 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 MX 2004 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 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!
• Leverage Secure FTP to fully encrypt all file transfers and prevent unauthoriSed access to your data, file contents, usernames and passwords!
• Enhance productivity with tighter integration with Macromedia Flash, Fireworks and other design and development tools in the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 suite.
  

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 customisable 'favourites' 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.
• 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.