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In this course, you will learn step-by-step instructions and in-depth explanations of the features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. You will first learn how to get started with Dreamweaver and how to develop a Web page.  Then, you will work with text, images, links and tables.  Next, you will learn how to manage a Web server and files. You will then focus on using styles and style sheets for page design and page layout. Next, you will learn about collecting data with forms. Last, you will learn about adding media objects, creating and using templates, and working with library items and snippets.

Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver) known as Dw for short is a web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in 2005. Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP. Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. Its transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting. The behaviors panel also enables use of basic JavaScript without any coding knowledge, and integration with Adobe's Spry AJAX framework offers easy access to dynamically-generated content and interfaces.

Dreamweaver can use third-party "Extensions" to extend core functionality of the application, which any web developer can write (largely in HTML and JavaScript). Dreamweaver is supported by a large community of extension developers who make extensions available (both commercial and free) for most web development tasks from simple rollover effects to full-featured shopping carts.