Dreamweaver CS4 – One reason to really love it
August 12, 2009Dreamweaver CS4 is one beautiful piece of software. And I am really, really geek enough to love it. I spent a little while today with my new staff person going over Dreamweaver and teaching her about HTML and me about the new features of CS4.
One thing that I really get excited about is that in Code view, you can collapse a tag. So, let’s say you have a Table tag that goes on and on and you’d like to see more of the page, you can click on the start Table tag and click to collapse it. Then everything from the beginning Table tag to the ending Table tag is shrunk up into a small little line and looks like:
<TABLE …
Isn’t that just too cool?
I have Cold Fusion web pages where code can go on and on and on. Now, I can click on the beginning CFIF tag and tell it to collapse it and Poof, it collapses. I am just beside myself.
As a note, the Collapse command is found in the Code view on the Coding Toolbar to the left of the Code window.
My second favorite thing so far is how easy it is to switch between their preset views. Up on the menu bar at the far right there is a drop-down next to the Search box that lets you switch from Designer view, to Coder view, to Classic view, to a cool one called Dual Screen aimed at people with two monitors that want to use both for Dreamweaver.
Ah, well, enough drooling for today. I have to go pick up my granddaughter. Happy thoughts!
