OT: Dreamweaver team is blogging

For anyone interested, the Adobe Dreamweaver team is now
blogging.
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/
Regards
John Waller

Thanks John,
It should be a very interesting blog!

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OT: The Dreamweaver team's blog post about the Dreamweaver modernization effort

Hi all,
The Dreamweaver team has shared its thoughts on the rationale behind changes in Dreamweaver CC in its blog post http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/06/a-look-at-the-modernized-dreamweaver-cc.html. The blog post also touches upon what's ahead while providing alternatives to some of the older features that did not make it to Dreamweaver CC.
The team has taken into account feedback from several quarters before formulating a reply. I thank all of you on this forum who have provided us with inputs and constructive feedback to help us respond to your concerns.
I would like to particularly call attention to this sentence from the blog post:
We have just begun the modernization process and invite you to voice your opinion. We are committed to taking action on customer feedback and remaining as transparent as possible about our future plans.
In this context, it is worth noting that the Creative Cloud provides us with the flexibility to quickly try and address issues and areas that fall within the purview of our shared vision for Dreamweaver.
Thanks,
Preran

Namaste Preranji,
That URL that you posted is broken it should not be "dr eamweaver" but "dreamweaver" I hope that is not a bad omen. (-;
VL Branko

Macromedia Dreamweaver Team

Hello
I personally feel as a customer aswell as owning dreamweaver
ultradev 1.0 , dreamweaver mx 2004 that since microsoft has made
these active content changes you should issue updaters for all
versions of dreamweaver. I realise that you dont support older
versions but put it like this we pay alot of money for your
software and well im sure other people will agree you should make
these small changes for everyone. You made the change in
dreamweaver 8 which ive just tried my trial but as ive bought
dreamweaver mx 2004 at the time of u releasing v8 why should i have
to pay to get the update ?
Every email i get from adobe i see this line on the bottom of
the email "Better By Adobe" - hows adobe better if you are not
gonna fix these small problems which mean your users and myself can
continue using your software and create great web experiences
without any fuss.
Being a non profit software developer aswell as a personal
web designer for non profit use i always manage to provide
necessary changes to enable my users to use my software and my
sites without any problems and think about it im just a hobbyist in
all this at the moment. So why cant you as a company do the same i
bet it takes you half the time it takes me to make changes in
software.
Im really hoping someone on the dreamweaver team will take a
few moments of there time to answer my question. Politely...
Kind Regards
Anthony.

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"anthmedia" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:[email protected]...
> Hello
>
> I personally feel as a customer aswell as owning
dreamweaver ultradev 1.0
> ,
> dreamweaver mx 2004 that since microsoft has made these
active content
> changes
> you should issue updaters for all versions of
dreamweaver. I realise that
> you
> dont support older versions but put it like this we pay
alot of money for
> your
> software and well im sure other people will agree you
should make these
> small
> changes for everyone. You made the change in dreamweaver
8 which ive just
> tried
> my trial but as ive bought dreamweaver mx 2004 at the
time of u releasing
> v8
> why should i have to pay to get the update ?
>
> Every email i get from adobe i see this line on the
bottom of the email
> "Better By Adobe" - hows adobe better if you are not
gonna fix these
> small
> problems which mean your usersa and myself can continue
using your
> software and
> create great web experiences without any fuss.
>
> Being a non profit software developer aswell as a
personal web designer
> for
> non profit use i always manage to provide necessary
changes to enable my
> users
> to use my software and my sites without any problems and
think about it im
> just
> a hobbyist in all this at the moment. So why cant you as
a company do the
> same
> i bet it takes you half the time it takes me to make
changes in software.
>
> Im really hoping someone on the dreamweaver team will
take a few moments
> of
> there time to answer my question. Politely...
>

Does the Dreamweaver team work at Adobe?

Here's why I ask. We're in CS6 now, which is what, the 12th version of dreamweaver? I keep thinking, maybe there's going to be bridge integration someday. Mini-bridge would be awesome. But it's like the dreamweaver team has never seen another Adobe product. Yes, there's a place in dreamweaver as a bridge option (if the image is already resized, and you want it stored in your root directory), but from Dreamweaver there's no preview in bridge (we can explore with Windows file explorer, that's an option, but no mention of bridge). I keep hoping I can draw an image placeholder in golive, select a file in bridge, and the option 'Place an optimized file created in these dimensions in your current directories files' will appear, but that option isn't there. Contribute had that back in CS1, but Dreamweaver makes me work for it. It gives me the ability to draw a placeholder to dimensions, but then I have to open photoshop, resize it, save it, and find it.
And finding images is hard, because there's no mini-bridge! Want to view all the images you have in a directory so you can select the right thumbnail to place on your page? Better use another program. Sure, there's the asset view, where you can wait while dreamweaver creates microscopic thumnails of every image in every directory, but something as simple as view files as thumbnails - not this time. Maybe CS7?
And as long as I'm griping about features that every other program in the world seems to have mastered, would it be so hard to have real-time spell check? I don't think I own another program (or device) that let's me mis-type as happily as dreamweaver. Yes, if I remember I can run a command to spell check, but why make me remember? Why not incorporate the same (dare I say technology?) that Microsoft has used for all of this century and much of the last, and just put a squiggly line under my screw-ups?
Please, Adobe, spend a little more time thinking about the people that use your products (I know I'm not the only person who puts images on web pages!), and less time coming up with new programs like Muse so we don't have to use the programs we already love.

Although I know it's never been considered DW is always looking for ways to expand. I can hear where you are coming from, however, from a priorities perspective from other posts I've seen, removing the old functionality and trying to bring in the standards of HTML5 and CSS3 is more important, because as Nancy and PZ eluded to, people have been doing it this way for years and competitors are coming out with better ways to handle the new technologies and DW needs to be on the cutting edge there. Based on the web fonts that was introduced in CS6, I would like to see integration with Font Management tools. With InDesign and Photoshop you don't know how often I rely on those external (non-Adobe) tools to tell me what fonts are in use and to be able to select any font on my system to use on the webpage (given that you have the rights to the font of course).
I will say this about your last paragraph. I did recently upgrade to the CS6 suite, but your comment there is one of the reasons I have not gone into the Cloud. I feel like my money would be supporting that product when I don't need/want to use it.

To the apex team (wiki, blog and ask the expert)

Dear fellows,
Can you give an indication when wiki, blog and/or ask the expert applications will be available.
I'm looking forward ......
Best regards.
Leo

I was able to do this by logging in with FTP. I deleted contents of the "Collaboration" folder, restarted and set up my sites. It all worked like new.

Blogging with Dreamweaver.

Okay. I see some people have asked this question before, but everyone who answers seems to give the least helpful answers I've ever seen in any situation in my entire life. So I'm going to be really specific about the question here and really, really hope for something other than redirecting to another site or the recommendation not to use adobe products.
I own Dreamweaver CS6. I have built a website. I would like one page of that website to have a blog.
Everything I read seems to say something about PHP. I don't know PHP. (I am capable of learning new things though, so if I have to I will... but I'd like to know more about the endgame before I put in even more time on this.) I also keep seeing a lot about using blog services such as Wordpress or Blogger.
I'm a newbie. I have built the website, and with the exception of the blog and comments section, it essentially works. But I have only uploaded it to a school site. I have not yet tried to uploading to the site that will ultimately have my domain name.
Perhaps this is a question that will be answered when I try to upload to different site, but - I'm not entirely sure why I couldn't simply update my site whenever I want to post a new blog. I mean - why can't I just open Dreamweaver, edit my blog page, and upload? Obviously, the comments section would still be an issue - but, in terms of just blogging, why wouldn't I just update my page every day? Is that a problem? Are there costs associated with that? What's the deal?
Okay - now assuming there's an answer to that, rather than direct me to another website, could someone explain just how putting a blog into Dreamweaver works? If I actually go through the process of installing even more stuff onto my little computer, from there is it what? A matter of cutting and pasting PHP code into the Dreamweaver site? Do I link them somehow? Is this something the server would have to take care of?
Honestly, I don't mind not having a comments section if that's the hard part. I mean, if uploading an edited page every day is viable, I could also just have people email comments and I could stick 'em in there exactly how I want, right? So seriously, I'd love to know why blogging seems so complicated. And once I know that, I'd like to know the simplest way to incorporate blogging into my site. -I don't want to be redirected to Wordpress - I don't find their information particularly enlightening. It's just more verbage along the lines of, "Download this and all your problems will be solved!" I'd rather know exactly what's going on before I do that.
Also, if your answer is to not use Dreamweaver - please don't reply. I mean, duh - we're on the adobe site, I have a question about an adobe product, obviously I already spent money on the darn thing - please, if you're kind enough to reply, please also be kind enough to keep that in mind.
Thanks!
M

To create a basic blog you'll need to write your blog pages in something like PHP. I prefer php. To see what you are doing you'll need to install WAMP or MAMP (for mac). Search for those downloads and read up. It's easy to set up a local host to use in building your database.
You should first set up a basic log-in system so that you must log-in to post or log-in to write comments. There are lots of tutorials on how to do this. You just set up a mySql database and set up a users table. Give it the following columns. id, date, userName, password, access, and approval.
Dreamweaver CC and CS6 (and earlier versions) have tools to automatically set up log-in, restrict access and log-out pages. These are quite easy to setup and there are a bunch of tutorials on how to do this.
Now that you have your log-in system working locally you'll have to set up a database on your web server. Apache servers are easier than windows servers and they are the most common. Log-in to your DNS provider and set up a new database, use PHP my admin to move your users table from your system to your DNS provider.
Now it's time to set up a simple data entry form for creating posts. You'll need a table. Call it posts or something like that. Set up the following fields. id, date, userID, postData, and approval.
Use Dreamweaver tools to now setup a form to insert data into these fields. There's your data entry part.
Now set up a record set that looks at the posts table and retrieves the date, userID, and postData and set up a repeating region on your page to echo the data, the user info and the post.
That's all there is to it. You can find tutorials on all of those steps and CS6 and earlier have wizards that will build all the forms for you. It's easy. I do it every day. It's much lighter weight than something like WordPress or the other CMS systems out there, but if you build it from scratch you'll need to add all the features you may want to add in the future by hand.

Tutorial on randomization is up on the Animate team blog

Hi, guys-
Just wanted to let you guys know that I just published a blog post on our Animate team's blog on randomization. We've received a couple of questions about randomizing quiz questions, etc., and I thought I would explain the slightly complicated randomization code in the Floral Match Maker sample we provide on our product website (http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/showcase.html).
Let me know if you have any questions!
http://blogs.adobe.com/edge/2013/09/19/floral-matchmaker-tutorial-4-randomizing-the-game-b oard/
-Elaine

Elaine,
Thank you for creating & explaining in detail this great example. I find this type of example & detailed explanation as the best way to learn how to use a product. I now need to spend more time reading & trying out some of features that you demonstrated.
Best of luck
Bob

Dreamweaver previews first Server Side Include Only (SSI)

Dreamweaver CC and 2014 preview the first Server Side Include (SSI) only, even if the Adobe extension is installed (Using the SSI extension in Dreamweaver to create page headers | Adobe Developer Connection)
How do I set Dreamweaver to preview multiple (more than one) SSI's?
Example Code:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>


</body>
</html>
The code above will preview the text in "Content.shtml" but will not display the text in "content2.shtml".
For troubleshooting purposes, I have reduced the content in each file to only single lines of basic text.
Please advise. Thanks.
Update:
Dreamweaver Live View will show all of the server side includes. However the "Design View" and "Preview in Browser" will only show the one ssi.
The following Preference settings are enabled:
-Preview using temporary file
-Show contents of included file
Update 2:
I discovered that server side includes have been removed from the Dreamweaver interface, inferred from this article: A Look at the Modernized Dreamweaver CC : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog. If Server Side Includes were removed, can they be added again using the Server Behavior extension?

The issue is fixed in Dreamweaver 2014.1

Dreamweaver CC features such as Template Parameters

I have Dreamweaver CS6 and have not ventured onto the cloud yet. While looking up a question regarding syntax for Dreamweaver Template Parmeters, I noticed most of the documentation starts with the clause "The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later." I found this expression even when I searched Creative Cloud specific support, e.g. see Dreamweaver Help | Using optional regions in templates. The link A Look at the Modernized Dreamweaver CC : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog is over a year old and no help.
How in the world do you find what features actually exist in Dreamweaver CC without buying it? Are Template Parameters still available? Has anyone successfully imported a Dreamweaver CS6 site that has Template Parameters to Dreamweaver CC? I found a PDF for Dreamweaver CC, (http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/dreamweaver_reference.pdf) which seems to indicate Template Parameters are still supported, but I don't have a lot of faith in it based on previous experiences with Adobe documentation.
Thanks in advance.

Are Template Parameters still available?
Yes. Why do you want to use them? There are usually better ways to do things... Are you also using nested templates, by chance?
Has anyone successfully imported a Dreamweaver CS6 site that has Template Parameters to Dreamweaver CC?
There is no "import" to it. You just define a site in CC that points into the CS6 site's local root folder and you're ready to go.

What must i do to get Insert Fluid Grid Layout Div Tag on dreamweaver?

Why an i not able to get the Insert Fluid Grid Layout Div Tag on dreamweaver?
I am using Creative Cloud

Hi Leroy, this post in the Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog may assist you with the updates to Dreamweaver: http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/02/updated-fluid-grids-in-dreamweaver.html
Let me know if you still require assistance.

OT: Bindings panel, Databases, and Server behaviors in Dreamweaver CC

Hi all,
There was a query on the Dreamweaver Facebook page about using server behaviors in Dreamweaver going forward. The product team replied to the post, and I am posting it on this forum for the benefit of users not on our Facebook page.
In Dreamweaver cc release server behaviors will be available as an extension. Once you install the extension server behaviors feature will be enabled and extensions dependent on it will work as before. In the CC release, you can find the extension at the location
* Vista/Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC\Configuration\DisabledFeatures
* Mac OS X: /Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver CC/Configuration/DisabledFeatures
Additional documentation is available at
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/dreamweaver-cc-server-extensions.html
Also, check out this video created by Silas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2vmNfcq7A
The Dreamweaver team has posted their view about the latest changes in Dreamweaver in their blog post http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/06/a-look-at-the-modernized-dreamweaver-cc.html
Thanks,
Preran

I am sorry to say so, but your disappointing blog post just tells us two things:
You claim that you are listening to your users, but you have just proved you don’t. Despite the high volume of disappointment expressed through the comments to previous posts of this blog, through comments in Dreamweaver Help or through the Community Forum, you show no change of direction, nor any will to cater for the disrupted workflow that Dreamweaver CC is introducing. Instead, you are just producing blog posts that desperately try to prove us that you are “streamlining” and “modernizing” Dreamweaver. An extension that brings back half of the features is not a strong-enough signal that you have taken into account our needs. Extensions written by third parties which you claim are alternatives but are not resemble more leg-pulling than anything else. Will you reduce Dreamweaver’s price for the removal of killer features that were sold with the software before?
You do not seem to know how Dreamweaver users use the software or at least, to be fair, how a large number of users do. I thought the aim of software makers was to sell a tool that aids its clients in, and brings value to, their work.
As an extension writer, I can tell that the vast majority of my users are either DIY guys or professionals working on their own. Not big companies with teams of developers. The majority of those never have been Dreamweaver users and will never be, having different needs and ways of working.
As responses to your “streamlining” and “modernization” of Dreamweaver have shown, for a large number of users, the strength of Dreamweaver lies in its extensibility, of which server behaviors are the most advanced feature. I am not talking about the code they write, which we all agree has to be updated (and we have been waiting this for a number of releases, now…), I am talking about their very mechanism, which allow us to write our code and use Dreamweaver to speed up our job by helping us to write it again, faster, without errors, visually.
No other tool offers this possibility. Without server behaviors and database support, Dreamweaver is simply not worth its price…
Obviously, you are the ones with the real figures and only you can tell if it is a strategic decision or a big mistake. I was a bit surprised though by the number of voices that rose after the Dreamweaver CC release, so I tend to think that Mr. Adobe would not be that pleased by the loss of a good number of faithful clients. But then at least, be honest enough to tell us if you intend to drop a part of long-term users, and stop serving us your commercial soup…
Now, what will happen?
You still refuse to listen to the numerous voices who have called against your decision to remove useful features to us, and in this case, we will act accordingly: we are big enough, we do not need your blatant propaganda even by the product manager himself to decide whether Dreamweaver CC will still be worth its high price into our workflow, if the new features will outweigh the loss of server behaviors and database support. If not, of course, we will not upgrade just because you are marketing the supposedly wonderful new features, and we will turn to other tools, with features that will help us improve our workflow in other ways. And goodbye Adobe, we do not trust you anymore… It is as simple as that.
You show us you really are listening to your customers and you bring back updated server behaviors and database support. In this case, we will know that we can trust Adobe again, that you do listen to us, and will applaud with both hands.
And, more important to you, we will have a valid reason to upgrade and we will. Come on guys, our productivity is at stake, but your jobs may be in the line too…

Dreamweaver CS5.5 Can't update my site!

I just switched from a PC to a Mac. I exported one of my sites from the Windows PC and copied it over to the Mac. When I 'test' the connection it connects sucessfully, but when I try to upload using Dreamweaver it gives me a error related to permissions. Since it tested ok I know the password is correct - I even retyped it and retested it to be sure - but it still won't upload to the site via DW. (BTW using a Filezilla I can access and upload files to the site).
Any help appreciated!

I found the answer! It seems that with DW 5.5 there is a known issue that affects 'some' (according to Adobe) users. The solution is to delete the webformmailer.php file in the root directory of the site on the server. I have no idea why that works, but it seems to have fixed the problem for me.
See this note from the Dreamweaver team blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2011/07/late-breaking-issue-putget-not-working-for-some -dreamweaver-cs5-5-users.html

Dreamweaver cs6 and cc

Hi:
I coding with ASP, can Dreamweaver CC support ASP?
another question is It happen sometimes when I open a page by template, the
words(chinese) will goes to error code when I shoose Modify -> Templates
->Open Attached Template. is this issue can fixed right now for cs6?
and still have the same problem in Dreamweaver CC?
Thank you.
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other email:
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by
Gabriel

ASP support was deprecated in Dreamweaver CC. There is a single extension to restore these features.
Extension is available at:
* Vista/Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC\Configuration\DisabledFeatures
* Mac OS X: /Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver CC/Configuration/DisabledFeatures
Check out the team blog for more:
A Look at the Modernized Dreamweaver CC : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog

Dreamweaver CC - Open letter to Adobe

My company just made the mistake of upgrading to Dreamweaver CC 2014. Dreamweaver now has virtually no ColdFusion support. Even Ben Forte recommends using other non-Adobe editors for server-side CF coding (http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2013/6/30/On-Dreamweaver-CC-And-ColdFusion). He does recommend Dreamweaver for client-side coding but most of the projects at my work involve both client- and server-side coding.
Adobe, please get your act together. This screw up on our part (for buying in to the "upgrade, CC is great!" campaign) or your Dreamweaver team just ignited another “why CF?” argument at my work and I’m getting tired of getting beat up defending your apparent product incohesive missteps -- intentional or not.

From the looks of it, the writing is already on the wall. I own a Creative Cloud subscription and one of the main benefits touted for the Creative Cloud is regular updates and bug fixes. And every other app like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Bridge, Lightroom, the Edge Tools, etc. have seen multiple nice updates as part of the Creative Cloud subscription which has made me a big fan of Creative Cloud.
All except for Fireworks.
Not a single update or bug fix has occured for Fireworks in Creative Cloud. Even for the simplest of things. I have reported typos in Fireworks that still have not been fixed. In fact, I think the only app in Creative Cloud that has not been updated is Fireworks.
So like I said, it seems the writing is on the wall. It's a shame too because even with its lack of care, it works phenomenally well for designing user interfaces. But now others are starting to catch up and people seem to be switching to alternatives because Fireworks appears to be a dead end.
Without Fireworks, Adobe doesn't have a single UI design app in their portfolio and in particular it seems lots of UI designers are jumping ship now from Adobe to Bohemian Coding and their Sketch app. I'm dumbfounded that Adobe has allowed this to happen.
From what I understand, the Sketch app is created by just two people which makes the inability to keep Fireworks updated all the more baffling.

Dreamweaver & Wordpress?

I'm having trouble using Dreamweaver to edit the .php files for my Wordpress site at http://dontpanik.tv without losing a lot of the formatting from my custom theme.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark,
To add to what Ben said, check out this tutorial as well Establishing a Dreamweaver CC and WordPress Workflow : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog
While it does not answer your question, it might provide you with some insights into the workflow.
Thanks,
Preran

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