CSS: Unified We Stand

In the fall of 2003, when Dreamweaver MX 2004 came out, it was dubbed the “CSS update. Prior to that point in time, Dreamweaver just didn’t quite “get” CSS and as more and more developers flocked to 3^rd party tools to produce their CSS for Dreamweaver sites, Macromedia realized that something had to be done. The web world was, more and more, emphasizing “separation of content and presentation” and either Dreamweaver had to improve in this area or start to lose valuable market share.

This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Dreamweaver Crystal Gazer: The Power Of Dreamweaver 8

Overview

Dreamweaver MX 2004 was major in terms of CSS usability. Creating CSS in that version was much easier than in prior versions, but it wasn’t perfect and still, many complained and not that many ditched their 3^rd party tool in favor of Dreamweaver MX 2004.

That has changed with Dreamweaver 8. The Unified CSS panel turns CSS creation into a very fast and easy thing to achieve. The rendering in Design View of the document window has improved 100% and the multipart CSS unified panel has made it easy to view styles, quickly make changes to styles and create new styles, all of which are instantly updated as Dreamweaver 8 silently writes the code in the background.

I urge you to have a look. I think that, after reading this article and trying it out with your 30 day trial of Dreamweaver 8 in the article that follows this one, you will be uninstalling your 3^rd party tool and making the move to Dreamweaver 8 as your only tool.

Nancy Gill

In early 1996, Nancy Gill picked up her first book on HTML and permanently said goodbye to the legal field. She has been busy ever since developing web sites for businesses, organizations and social groups in Central California and occasionally beyond. Nancy has served as a member of Team Macromedia since late 2001, first with UltraDev and then moving to Dreamweaver when the programs were consolidated in 2002. She also serves as Assistant Manager for the Central California Macromedia User's Group.
Nancy is the co-author of Dreamweaver MX: Instant Trouble-Shooter and technical editor for several Dreamweaver and Contribute related books, including the well-known Dreamweaver MX 2004: A Complete Reference. She also penned the first ever Contribute article for Macromedia's Own Devnet "Getting Up to Speed with Contribute in 10 Minutes".

Nancy has three children, two in college and one in high school. Offline, she enjoys various sporting activities, is a wild NFL football fan and sings in the church choir.

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