Adobe Dreamweaver cs3 review - 2

Dreamweaver cs3 not only attracts developers, but also designers. Adobe has integrated lots of nice feature in Dreamweaver which a designer can enjoy, its an intelligent integration with Flash, Flex, Photoshop, fireworks and contribute.

CSS: Dreamweaver cs3 is tuned to create CSS layouts. cs3 has also has the advantages of viewing, editing, moving styles within or between files. There is also a facility to do a browser compatibility check for CSS layout.

Coding: Coding in Dreamweaver CS3 is very very easy than any editor available now. Apart from the color coding, line numbering can also be colored. Commenting is very simple.

Editing code: If there is a 100 line of javascript, that function of code can be collapsed for easy editing. XML can be integrated into any code by Drag & Drop.

Support with Technologies: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion®, ASP, ASP.NET, and JSP.


Style Rendering toolbar: This is another cool feature Dreamweaver CS3. Page can be viewed as just as how end user will see it. HTML can be simulate to see PC screen, handheld device, or printout.

Latest Dreamweaver cs3 has nearly 1000 downloadable extensions. And this is one of the best version of CS3.

If you are using Dreamweaver 8, Its recommended to upgrade to CS3. Request you company / department for the upgrade of dreamweaver CS3.

Online free photoshop - Mini version

Photoshop is one of the expensive tool for a designer to buy. But for ameteur who does smaller task on picture editing tool need not to buy photoshop here on. Flotoflexer is an online photo editing tool smaller tasks can be achieved. This software can be really a useful tool for bloggers. This tool has five main menu - Basic Tools, Color Effects, Distort, Beautify, Text Tools, Advanced. Under each there is a tool by which image can be edited. We tried with image resize, image cropping, rotate, flip, draw, erase, fill & Color Grab, it works nice.
Fotoflexer has various features -

Color effects - Bronze, Sepia, Grey, Invert, Rotate, Painting, Stamp, Cartoon, pop art,
Distort - Twirl, Bulge, punch, stretch, squish
Beautify - Autofix, smooth, sharpen, fix red eye, fix blemishes, smooth wrinkles
Text Tools - Add text, Speech Bubbles, thought bubbles
Advanced - Web cam, smart cutout, smart recolor, opacity, adjust, contrast
Best part is you can take snapshop from webcam, As this option is not available with the windows pc. There is also a facilty to upload photos from Fotoflexer to flickr, myspace, picasa and facebook.
You don't need to sign-in to use all these features, to save file its asks for login details. And signing in is also as easy.
Thanks to Techcrunch to let us know about Fotoflexer.

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