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Just like Microsoft FrontPage, Dreamweaver is also a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web development software. It was originally created by Macromedia, but later on in the year 2005 it was owned by Adobe systems. Thus Dreamweaver is now known as Adobe Dreamweaver. This application is used for developing high quality web pages without getting involved in HTML coding. All the designing can be done in the design mode easily.

If we look at the sole objective, there is no difference between FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Both of them offer excellent tools to create exciting web sites. But still, some people prefer Dreamweaver as they find it more interesting, easy and rich in functions than FrontPage. Dreamweaver allows viewing websites in many popular browsers. It has got a variety of tools and functions which can be used to add multimedia in the web pages. For example tools like flash tool, real player tool, windows media player tool and quick time tool can be used to embed and watch movies in different formats on the web sites.

One unique feature of Dreamweaver is that you can configure it to write the HTML code in the way you want. For example; if you want that all the tags should be in bold, then you can configure the Dreamweaver to generate the code in that way. Dreamweaver also supports syntax highlighting for the codes. It makes it easy to use java scripting and DHTML to control the behavior of different objects. There is a library which makes it comfortable to use and modify an HTML element which has been repeatedly used in different web pages of a web site. For example; suppose you need to use and design a navigation table on every page of your web site. In that case instead of putting the formatting the table on every page, you can define it in the Dreamweaver library. Once added in the library, you need to put the table and design it on any one page of the web site and it will automatically get added and updated on the rest of the web pages.

Apart from this, Dreamweaver supports a lot of other useful functions such as CSS, templates, forms, tables, automatically updatable hyperlinks, interactive frames, rollover images and much more. Adobe Dreamweaver can be used on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. The recent version of the application has been improved to support CSS, java scripts, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, java server pages and PHP. Overall, Dreamweaver is fully power packed with captivating features. This program is used worldwide and is a real head turner. It is a mighty competitor of FrontPage.

The whole look and design of Dreamweaver is better than any other HTML editor. FrontPage 2003 supports Dreamweaver compatible web templates. You can use both of them creatively to make stunning web pages. Dreamweaver has been improved to work hand in hand with Microsoft Word and Excel. The latest version of Adobe Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3 is fully loaded with high end features such as fireworks, spry effects, browser compatibility check, CSS management and lots more. No doubt, Dreamweaver is all time favorite of most of the web designers and HTML professionals.