Waiting for Dreamweaver CS4, OR migrating to another developer?

Hi:
Not long time ago when DWMX came out I got very excited. At
last something real came out. I tried Codecharge, some coffeecup
tools and many many other programs that claimed that they could
help us develop websites with less coding and more thinking. But it
was only DW and just DW which could make things right. Golive was
there, trying to compete with DW but it was a joke comparing to DW.
Golive was just a design tool but DW was a real developer tool.
Many great books about DWMX came out and showed us new ways of
making best websites ever. DWMX2004 came out with good improvements
and then DW8 with some good fixes. But most of the major options
where the same as MX. I got worried when Adobe's acquisition came
out and after seeing what happened to DW in version CS3 I really
panicked. It is going to become a newer version of Golive!!!
I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open letter
at
http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/
and you will see even PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW
but the new version is so disappointing that we all believe it
might be the end of DW for developers.
I ask Adobe people:
Should I migrate to another tool? Should we all forget about
next version of DW (I assume it will be CS4) and go for some tools
that do things 50% less effective than DW and 200% more messy?
Is there any hope that CS4 becomes a new hope for us who love
"less coding and more ideas?"
Or we are just waiting for a newer version of DW as an
upgrade for Golive?
Please help us decide and not to wait if there is no hope and
no help for us developers.
Thanks
Benign

Benign wrote:
> I'm not the only one who is worried. look at this open
letter at
>
http://stringfoo.com/2007/05/08/an-open-letter-to-adobe/
and you will see even
> PHP developers (I am a CF developer) loved DW but the
new version is so
> disappointing that we all believe it might be the end of
DW for developers.
That open letter is full of excellent suggestions. Although I
don't
agree that Dreamweaver is just becoming a newer version of
GoLive, I,
too, would have liked to see more done on the server side in
this
version. The way to influence the direction of CS4 is to
submit feature
requests through the Adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Now that CS3 is out of the door, the development team will be
drawing up
its initial plans for the next release. Now is the time to
tell the team
what you would like to see in CS4.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Similar Messages

Is separate graphics card needed for Dreamweaver CS4?

My PC (an HP Pavilion a1120n) meets the stated system
requirements for Dreamweaver CS4, except that it has integrated
graphics (max of 128MB) instead of a separate video card. I can
easily upgrade to 4MB of RAM. Could anyone please tell me whether
Dreamweaver will run on my machine, or whether I need to invest in
a new PC. A potential free-lance job rides on this question. Many
thanks!

To be honest, all you really need is a crappy old computer
and Notepad.
I'll admit that this may be a really bare-bones way to start,
though.
In my opinion, the best was would be to get the Adobe
Creative Suite 4 Web
Premium package. It is a pricey bird, though ($1,699 domestic
for a full
copy - not upgrade). I'm assuming you want to stick with
Dreamweaver.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.projectseven.com/go
- DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs,
Tutorials & Resources
==================
"BexleyMark" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks, Walt -- that may be the best route, although
first I'll have to
> add
> some RAM to the puny 512 megs I have now. Still, that's
easy and cheap
> enough
> to do, and will improve my aging PC in any case.
> I'm not using Dreamweaver now. I've been a print editor
at newspapers
> for
> 36 years. About two years ago I was transferred
half-time to my
> newspaper's Web
> site, which uses OpenCMS. Little training provided and
no manual, of
> course. I
> had to teach myself, and I've worked hard at it &
picked up a good bit of
> HTML
> and CSS. Built my own personal site on the side by hand.
Fascinating stuff
> to
> learn.
> Old friend of mine runs a small business and is unhappy
with his poky
> Web
> site. He asked me for suggestions. I drew up a list and
then decided
> showing is
> better than telling, so I cloned his source code,
altered it some and
> worked up
> a prototype that he really liked. Then he offered to
hire me to do a
> complete
> redesign!
> Everybody knows what's happening to newspapers. I'm
seeing an
> opportunity
> here to maybe build a little part-time business -- if I
can satisfy this
> guy,
> maybe I can help others, too. But to do a professional
job I'd need more
> training, and professional tools as well. But: What do I
need to buy? And
> shall
> I make the investment and take the risk? (One-quarter of
our newsroom was
> laid
> off last week -- 45 people!)
>
>

Wait for 3 minutes and then run another method

I'm calling a JMS service lets say runProgress() the method adds a new row into a database then waits for 3 minutes and then runs another method that removes the row from the table.
I was thinking about this, and thought that I could create a new Thread, let it wait for 3 minutes and the run the other method.
The thing is what happens if there are 10.000 users running this at the same time, then there would be 10.000 Threads, wouldn't it be a hevy load on the server.
Is there any other way?? Suggestions?

What do you think about if there are massive, like
10.000+, queue's in memory, this would be slow down
for the server, right? or isn't it a trouble?you don't need 10.000 queues - just one single queue. you may have a lot of objects in the queue but this is at most a memory problem - depends on the size of the information you need.
maybe i was not clear enough: you have a single queue where the tasks are put into. then there are other threads (at least 1) that read from the queue and perform actions.
One option, that I don't know how to do yet but
thinking about it, is to let the database have some
kind of a procedure that would run after 3 minutes,
but I guess that I were only moving the memory trouble
from the app-server to the database. (hope you
understand me)yes, i think so.
So it would be just as good to do this in the
app-server as in the database, what do you think?a good idea. typically with all these optimization issues you just have to try out. otherwise you won't know the result.
robert

No Fix for Dreamweaver CS4 not loading?

I am seeing more and more recently that people are experiencing the crashing DW effect. Does anyone have a fix for this, or are we stuck until adobe finally corrects the issue? I have read tons of posts on here and other forums, but nothing seems to fix the problem. All I know, my DW worked fine for a very long time, and all of a sudden it no longer loads. When trying to start the program I get an immediate crash (doesn't let the program even get to the splash screen). Now this happens all the time, and I have tried every fix I have read about so far. I even formatted and started all over from scratch. I only installed adobe products after the format, and let the updater do its thing. Once I did this, DW started crashing all over again. This is definately a problem that needs to be corrected ASAP. I see a current download for CS5 to fix the crashing with that program, but nothing even remote to fixing CS4. Has anyone experience these problems after an adobe update?

Yes, I think it is the installer doing something as well. Here is what I did.... I have been using the download link from my account on adobe to install dreamweaver cs4. After numerous times of not working I tried install the new cs 5.5 and it works like a charm. After this I tried installing my old dw 8 and it also works like a charm. So, after 2 versions installed that work, I have come to the conclusion that the cs4 download from adobe has to be the problem. Once I figured this, I called support. Let me tell you, this was the most terrible experience ever. 3 and a half hours of numerous people connecting to me and transfering me back and forth to get no end result. I called again today (1 and a half more hours), another rep connects and does everything the others did to no solution once again. I say look 3 people, 2 supervisors and nothing is fixed, can you just give me another version (cs3, cs5, cs5.5, ANYTHING) so I can get back to work. Basically I am told they are going to escalate and I now have to wait for another call back and go through all the same steps as before. Adobe is seriously lacking in customer support or appreciation for buying these expensive products.
To break it down, 3 people connected...uninstalled, installed, deleted a ton of stuff, reinstalled, created a new user account disabled all start up services and installed dreamweaver and still isnt fixed. They have tried everything, and they cant fix it.... 2 of them even said the installer seems to not be doing something correctly, and the other tried to feed me a line of bull saying dreamweaver cs4 wasnt supporting vista 64??? I had to laugh and explain that I am running fw cs4 and acrobat pro 8 and flash and other progs that work just fine on vista 64 lol.

Why a simple php syntax checker extension doesn't exist yet for Dreamweaver CS4 ?

Hello,
my request is in the subject ;-)
I remember a very useful extension in Golive CS8/9 that did exactly that :
Duplicate from DW the currently edited php/html page to a temp file
Send the temp file to the command line : "/path/to/php -l /path/to/temp/file"
Display the command output ("syntax ok" or "error on line ##") directly INSIDE dreamweaver
It required only that an apache/php package was installed on the developer's computer (using whater Xampp, or Wamp, etc.)
Though you might say to me that I should use a PHP IDE wich is dedicated specifically to that goal, I wonder why a such extension does not exist... as it is a great time saver when rapid syntax checking is required before uploading...
I may be wrong but i can't find anything close to that via google / adobe studio exchange search results...
Should I start to learn the dreamweaver CS4 API extension documention or someone can give me a hint to achieve that ?
Thanks everyone.

Hi M.Zografski
I have tried to clear that cache the only thing I keep running into is that the file that is listed doesn't even match the way my dreamweaver loaded onto my computer. I get up to the point of the Adobe file then my next one is shown as Adobe Dreamweaver CS4- I choose this and then there is no file in there showing the language at all. I have a file listed as %AppData% and if I choose this one then it shows Thinstall file and this opens into Adobe AIR- then this has some registry files and another fold as %drive_C% which opens to Adobe then to Dreamweaver then to en_US then Configuration which does contain a file RDSINFO and it appears to be empty. This seems very round about to getting to the cache file and I was unsure of whether or not this was what I was indeed looking for. Also if I try to search for this WinFileCache with that file name I get no results.
Why is this being so stubborn. I am thinking if I could locate the file then it would all go well
Thanks
Teresa

Developer Toolbox For Dreamweaver CS4

Hello people,
I am searching for Developer Toolbox server side software to add to my Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 sever behaviors. Does any one have idea where I could find/buy this very server side software? please if you do, contact me. I have to have this software to complete my "Social Blog-Network."
Joplateau

Greetings,
May be I have bought some piece of software that has been discontinued; the fact is that Dreamweaver CS4 doesn’t have the server side I wanted or needed. For this reason, I have searched in vain to find and purchase the ASP VBScript server side upload I could use to design image or classified web site.
UltraDev 4 I bought, has this very type of server side or, the server side I am seeking for, if it doesn’t, I could find most of them from the Dreamweaver extension for UltraDev 4 and download them including CDONT MAIL. Unlike Dreamweaver CS4, it is highly impossible to find any. I have also bought “ASP upload and resize” server side software from DWZone.com but it doesn’t work at all and their support is poor. However, if youhave other idea why I shouldn’t use the UltraDev 4 you let me know but they still have supports and I have used most of them to learn how to use Dreamweaver CS4. .
THanks,
Joplateau.

Where can I download CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver CS4?

I downloaded what I thought was the CourseBuilder extension for DW CS4. However, I don't see all the question types that there are supposed to be. The only types that appear are multiple choice, drag and drop, explore, and text entry. I believe there's supposed to also be likert, matching, etc. Where can I download the correct version?

That link is actualy for Dreamweaver 4 (11 years old) when it was a Macromedia product.
It's the only non-defunct Coursebuilder link on the Adobe Exchange.
Coursebuilder has been moved to Adobe Captivate (part of Adobe ELS) AFAIK.
I'm not aware of a link to the (presumably discontinued) CS4 Coursebuilder extension.

ANN: Video tutorials for Dreamweaver CS4 public beta

I have created a couple of video tutorials to help people get
up to
speed with some of the new features in the public beta of
Dreamweaver
CS4. They cover the changes to the interface, Related
Documents, Live
View, Code Navigator, and Live Code. You can access them at
the
following location:
http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/cs4beta.php
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

any news on an expected relaese date for CS4?
B
www.visit-the-coqui.com/
If you are thinking of a vacation to Puerto Rico
http://gadgetgrapevine.blogspot.com
Latest gadget and other news here
"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:g1h43h$4n5$[email protected]..
>I have created a couple of video tutorials to help people
get up to speed
>with some of the new features in the public beta of
Dreamweaver CS4. They
>cover the changes to the interface, Related Documents,
Live View, Code
>Navigator, and Live Code. You can access them at the
following location:
>
>
http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/cs4beta.php
>
> --
> David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
> Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3"
(friends of ED)
> Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
>
http://foundationphp.com/

Waiting For Server CS4 Virgin Media 1and1

Hi
Over the last few month I have been getting "Waiting For Server" error messages from Dreamweaver while working on my websites hosted on a dedicated server with 1and1. My ISP is Virgin Media, whith whom Ihave a 50MB connection using a Virgin Media super hub.
This problemn didn't exist just over a month ago.
I have asked boith 1and1 and Virgin Media for help. Both deny there is a problem with the connection at either end and have suggested it is a Dreamweaver problem.
I have completely uninstalled Dreamweaver on both my Laptop and Desktop PC's.
I have tried the passive FTP and server compatibility settings within Dreamweaver, with no difference.
I have also tried using a couple of external DNS services, with no difference.
While I'm working, I can mayb eedit and save 5 files, then on mayb eth e6th I'll get the waiting for server message, which will then connect and save the file after about 30 seconds.
Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions that I haven't tried yet?
Many thanks
Mr M

Yes, I am editing the files directly on the server. Until recently, I've been working this way for years.
Dangerous. You must be exceptionally confident.
Are you working in CF?
At any rate, I'm not experienced with using this configuration, nor do I know anyone that works this way. Maybe someone else will pop in to help....

Plugin for Windows CS4 to Migrate Mac CS4 Image Links

Greetings,
My company currently has our entire publishing/design department on Mac's running CS4; however, as an IS department we are getting a little tired of the cost of replacing the Mac's and tired of always wondering when the next OS X update is going to force our hand into just buying all the Macs as brand new. That being said we are interested in migrating them over to PCs, but as we all know, since Macs run Unix based and Windows is, well Windows (lol), The links created inside documents become broken when opened by a PC. Now I have searched for about a week to try and find a plugin or something that would migrate the links in these files over to Windows (or at least be able to translate them without breaking them) with absolutely no success...Has anyone ever heard of such a feat being accomplished? If so, I will be eternally grateful!!! Thanks in advance for any information.

Creative Suite serial numbers have always been platform specific: Windows only or Mac only.
The only time you get to choose is at the point of sale.
After that swapping to another operating system requires a platform transfer process but that is only available for the current version (CS6)
Order product | Platform, language swap
In short, you're unfortunately stuck with CS4 for Windows.
Your options now are either to buy CS6 for Mac or join the Cloud. Or run Windows on your Mac via Parallels or Bootcamp or similar and install CS4 for Windows in that environment.
One of the features of Cloud software is that it can be used interchangeably on Mac and/or Windows at any time without any platform swapping processes or paperwork.

Where can I find the installer download for Dreamweaver CS4? Need to re-install.

I need to re-install DW CS4 on a new system, but have misplaced the installer. Where can I find this?
Went through tech-support, btw, and was directed here.
Thanks in advance.

if you follow all 7 steps you can directly download a trial here: http://prodesigntools.com/download-adobe-cs4-and-cs3-free-trials-here.html
and activate with your serial number.
if you have a problem downloading, you didn't follow all 7 steps, or your browser does not accept cookies.
the most common problem is caused by failing to meticulously follow steps 1,2 and/or 3 (which adds a cookie to your system enabling you to download the correct version from adobe.com).
failure to obtain that cookie results in an error page being displayed after clicking a link on prodesigntools.com

CourseBuilder for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

I posted this question in the Dreamweaver Extensions Forum; but wonder if it should also be posted in a more general location. Please excuse this cross posting.
In CourseBuilder Help > Getting Started > Learning CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver:
\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration\CourseBuilder\Help\ContextHelp.htm
I find:
"Learning CourseBuilder for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4"
"The CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver CS4 package contains a variety of resources to help you learn the program quickly and become proficient in creating your own Web page interactions."
"These resources include online help pages that appear in your browser, a tutorial, and a printed book."
Where is this printed book to be found?
"In addition, the CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver CS4 Support Center site is updated regularly."
What is the URL of this site?
I'm am very pleased to see CourseBuilder updated for Dreamweaver CS4, but can only find it included with the eLearning Suite.
Is it also available else where?
I would appreciate any help anyone can give,
Thank you,
David J. Hark
[email protected]

I'm a little frustrated too. I have the web premium suite of CS4 products and I very much need to publish my dreamweaver course in a SCORM package. I also need to use the interactions etc. available in Coursebuilder. It doesn't seem right that I have paid a lot of money for the web premium package but can't get coursebuilder. The coursebuilder version that works in dreamweaver 8 doesn't work in cs4.
RapidIntake has the coursebuilder version for dreamweaver 8 but they don't have one for cs4.
Is there no solution to this problem other than buying the eLearning suite?

HELP:Setting up Fireworks website Background Scroll for Dreamweaver Export

This is what I have designed for my website thus far (image attached) The lime green rectangle is the box that I want to extend for user to scroll down for more information while on the Website. How do I set up this image/function for dreamweaver CS4 html compatible.
Do I use 9 slice scaling or Export a small horizontal image that repeats as the back ground or what.
Please Help me.
Thank you.

It's impossible to see all the details you have from the size of the image you show. It looks like you have a small graphic next to each block of text. If that's what you're asking about then you should export just that graphic and use CSS to place that as part of a class for a div. For each block of text + photo, then, you would add another div. Once you get the code right for one block, you're fine. You do not write this code in Fireworks. You do it in Dreamweaver.
You can't use a repeating graphic for this element (if it is what you're asking about), because the text blocks may or may not line up with it.
Try going through this tutorial (the graphics can be done with Fireworks instead of Photoshop)
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-and-code-your-first-website-i n-easy-to-understand-steps/
You can also learn a great deal by looking at the work of others. If you see a site you like, use your browser's source view function and see how it was put together:
View>Source (IE)
View>Page Source (Firefox)
[page control icon]>Developer>View Source
Ctrl-U (Firefox or Chrome)
Here's a site full of inspiration: http://cssbrigit.com/
Again, your image is small, I could very well have misunderstood your question. If so, please describe what you're asking for.

Error while trying to compile in Adobe AIR with Dreamweaver CS4

hello guys,
I am running under a imac i7, with snow leopard, i have installed the extension for dreamweaver cs4 to compile a project in adoebe air.
but when a try to compile the prject i receive a java error reporting i have to installa Java 1.4 or higher.
here it is what i have installed:
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 29 Dic 15:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 29 Dic 15:40 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel    5 29 Dic 15:39 1.3 -> 1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x   3 root wheel 102 29 Mag 2009 1.3.1
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10 29 Dic 15:39 1.4 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10 29 Dic 15:39 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10 29 Dic 15:39 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10 29 Dic 15:39 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel    5 29 Dic 15:39 1.6 -> 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x   7 root wheel 238 20 Nov 05:48 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x   8 root wheel 272 29 Dic 15:40 A
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel    1 29 Dic 15:39 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel    3 29 Dic 15:39 CurrentJDK -> 1.6
what should i do?
thank you.

Hello hypericon_0090001,
Have you found any fix for this, as I am having the same problem.

PS2013 - When creating a new instance of Project Server hangs in 'Waiting for resources' status

Hi,
I have one instance of Project Server 2013 fully operational and I tried to duplicate the instance to make some tests. As I know the issue of using the same Content Database of Project Server in the same Server Farm, I used the powershell backup/restore/dismount
and mount the content database to change the site IDs to avoid index duplication. The Project server database was a regular SQL backup and restore in another database.
I created a new Web App in the port 90 as show below.
Then I included the Content database of Project Server as separated DB from SharePoint for this new SharePoint -acme90 and I tried to create the new instance. The creation hanged in "Waiting for Resources" status.
To make another check excluding the reuse of the SharePoint-80 I tried to create another instance both in the SharePoint-80 where is the working instance and in the SharePoint-90, everything default and again they all hanged in Waiting for Resource.
If I try to create the instance using PowerShell I got the following error:
PS C:\Users\epm_setup> Mount-SPProjectWebInstance -DatabaseName Test_EPM -SiteCo
llection http://acme02/epm -Lcid 1046
Mount-SPProjectWebInstance : Cannot find an SPSite object with Id or Url:
http://acme02/epm.
At line:1 char:1
+ Mount-SPProjectWebInstance -DatabaseName Test_EPM -SiteCollection
http://acme02/ ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Offic...ountPwaInstance:
   PSCmdletMountPwaInstance) [Mount-SPProjectWebInstance], SPCmdletPipeBindEx
ception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Office.Project.Server.Cmdlet.PSCmdletM
   ountPwaInstance
All SharePoint and Project Server services are running, all App Pools and sites are started at the IIS. I could not find a hanging timer job.
I cannot stop the hanged process or dismount the instances using Powershell since no instance created.
How should I solve the hanging status of creation of the instance? As they are in Hyper-V I can go back using one snapshot.
Thank you.
Best regards, Ricardo Segawa - Segawas Projetos / Microsoft Partner

Hi Eric,
Thank your for your interest in this case.
I checked for running and crashed PWA jobs and deleted all of them just after restoring the snapshot and tried to create the new instance in the new web app in port 90 (besides the existing and working instance in port 80), but again it hanged in "waiting
for resources". There is not any timer job hanging, no error in event viewer or in log. So the error is well before working with cloned dbs.
Answering your questiion, I am working all on 2013. My intention is backup one instance of the port 80 and copy to the instance of port 90, changing of course the url and the index of the content db of SharePoint. The process I used was:
Create a new web app in port 90, creating a new SharePoint_Content_2 on a
http://server:90 site.
Created the top level site called Portal using the Team Site template.
Create a new content db for new instance of Project Server named EPM_Content_2 using Central Admin.
Backup content db from port 80 instance of Project Server and restore to this EPM_content_2 using PowerShell cmd.
Dismounted and mounted this Project Server content db to create new index for existing sites to avoid index conflicts.
Backup the Project Server DB from port 80 using SQL backup and restored as ProjectWebApp2 db for port 90 instance.
Tried to create a new instance of Project Server
http://server:90/pwa on web app of port 90 using the ProjectWebApp2 db and using the same app pool of the other instance. But as in the previous case, it hang out in "Waiting for resources".
Best regards, Ricardo Segawa - Segawas Projetos / Microsoft Partner

Waiting for Dreamweaver CS4, OR migrating to another developer?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for