“The modern content publisher really needs to understand these devices,” says Fegette, “what they’re capable of and how to become effective with them quickly, because it’s certainly not slowing down.Acrobat | Animate | After Effects | Audition | Bridge | Character Animator | Creative Cloud Express | Dimension | Dreamweaver | Fuse | Illustrator | InDesign | InCopy | Lightroom | Media Encoder | Photoshop ( Express) | Prelude | Reader | Premiere Pro | Premiere Rush | Scout | XDĪnalytics | Audience Manager | Campaign | Experience Manager | Media Optimizer | Primetime | Social | TargetĪcrobat | Captivate | FrameMaker | Presenter | RoboHelpĪctiveShare | Atmosphere | Authorware | Creative Suite ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5. More change is sure to come, which makes familiarity with all of the hardware options even more important. Again, that’s another real power of HTML5 is that cuts down these round trips and these dependencies that a real standards-based developer would have.” You can do things like add border radius and opacity using RGBA colors to really take away some of the dependency of jumping back and forth to an image editor like Photoshop, baking these into an image and placing it into your file. You’ll see things like CSS3 support in the CSS panel. We wanted to make sure that the HTML5 revolution wasn’t this big slap in the face to people, but it was something they could progress into really naturally and holistically. “Some of the coolest things about Dreamweaver 5.5,” explains Fegette, “ quite frankly that we’ve just put support for HTML5 CSS3 right into the app in ways that just feel natural. The latest version of Dreamweaver also makes it easier for developers to work with HTML5. But the efficiency you get there is that you can really quickly build out these very targeted interfaces on top of the same HTML source, which lets you immediately repurpose your existing site.” It’s really mostly keyed around the dimensions of the screen right now, but the gist of it is, you can quickly target a CSS file to a specific resolution class-say max 400 pixels-and then go from 401 pixels to maybe 800 or 900 for a tablet and then anything above that deliver a specific style sheet just for the desktop. We’ve got this feature in CS5.5 called Multiscreen Preview panel and media query management where you can very quickly set up a number of default resolutions for a phone, a tablet and just a desktop browser and then custom define them as well. First up, CSS3 media query is a great way of managing this. “Any publisher that really wants to become relevant immediately needs to start thinking about how they can make the interface to their site, their application, relevant on a number of different form factors. “CS5.5 is going to be a big step forward starting first with just existing content,” says Fegette. Much the opposite holds true for a tablet or phone.ĭreamweaver CS5.5 has added features that help developers deliver content to this wide array of devices.
On an HDTV, you’re typically sitting away from the device, so you can’t fill a small space with a lot of text, and buttons on the screen have to be large enough for you to see and access. Simple links on a desktop may not work so well on a phone. The wide variations in screen sizes present additional challenges. Adobe® Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source David Powers Adobe Press books are published by: Peachpit 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510/524-2178 800/283-9444 For the latest on Adobe Press books, go to To report errors, please send a note to Peachpit is a division of Pearson Education. So, this presents a number of issues for developers.”Ī developer must be aware of several factors starting with how the user is going to interact with the app, whether it’s with a trackpad, a keyboard, joystick or trackball. It’s a variety of devices from tablets to smart phones to connected set-top boxes on HDTVs, including the desktop browsers that we all became used to. “It’s not just desktop browsers on two platforms anymore. “You kind of have to be under a really big rock to have not noticed the change in devices people are using to access the Internet today,” explains Scott Fegette, Senior Product Manager at Adobe. Some of the coolest things about Dreamweaver 5.5 are…that we’ve just put support for HTML5 CSS3 right into the app. Today, publishing is vastly different than it was 25 years ago, as consumers are accessing content in more ways than ever, and Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS5 team is hard at work creating the tools that allow developers to work in this new environment. Adobe helped spark the desktop publishing revolution in the mid 1980s with its PostScript page description language used in Apple LaserWriter printers.