5 comments about Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Win/Mac [OLD VERSION].

1. I recently switched Windows to Mac. Since Dreamweaver includes both versions, I thought I could deactivate my Windows machine, and install it on the Mac. After calling their customer service department twice, I was told that this is not possible. Once you activate the product on one platform, you have to buy it again if you want to use it on a different platform.
   
   I might be willing to pay for an upgrade if they were offering a Universal Binary, but currently they are not. They might even view Intel Mac's as a different plaform the Power PC Mac's and try to charge me again if they release an Intel version.
   
   Because their licensing is such a pain, I would not recommend this product to anyone.



2. This version on Dreamweaver is the best web tool ever built. It has every feature I could ask for. Too bad it's just too slow to use use for real (making money!). I,m a terrible typist and I can out type it. To switch between GUI view and text view involves a 20 second computer lockup. It's a shame because I absolutely love the product. Maybe one day I will use it for production but not this version.



3. Dreamweaver 8 is the best HTML editor on the market hands down.
   
   There are numerous small design changes from MX 2004 to 8 but the fantastic workspace from MX 2004 is fully intact whether you are a hand coder or a design coder. In fact the hand coder screen (code display) has undergone some very nice time saving improvements (i.e. 1 touch comments) that are very welcome.
   
   The larger improvements that you will find are increased support for CSS, XHTML 1.0 strict, XSLT, JavaScript, XML, and more. Also new is the built in validator for the different types of HTML and CSS... That is a massive timesaver all on its own. Finally the code generated in design view is much cleaner in my opinion. MX 2004 had the habit of putting the code in place without cleaning up previous code; Dreamweaver 8 fixes this problem nicely.
   
   Now that Adobe owns Macromedia I fully expected that Adobe's great customer support would be available and I was right. The customer support was fast, courteous, very helpful, and very patient with all my questions. Not once were my hypothetical questions treated like a burden.
   
   Macromedia had a very high quality, industry standard product on the market with Dreamweaver MX 2004. Now Adobe-Macromedia has an even better product with Dreamweaver 8. You can feel Macromedia's attention to details throughout the product and you can see Adobe's very high standards being lived up to in every nuance.
   
   Worth every cent and maybe a little more.



4. I had been using dreamweaver 4 forever. I had upgraded to MX but could not stand it. MX once opened for the first time you look at it and go "what the hell is going on here" nothing was where you thought it would be, I am pretty sure the designers were drunk. So I went back to using 4. Just got 8 and it is smooth and easy. Things are much different but all better in so many ways. I like programs that you do not have to look at the instructions when you upgrade to a new version. They realy put some thought into making it very intuitive. Go for it and dont look back. Avoid MX like the plague it is though.



5. I've used Netscape Composer for 7-8 years before "upgrading" to Dreamweaver. I have TWO Dreamweaver manuals. But DW remains SUCH A PAIN to use.
   
   * When I change the template, Dreamweaver should ask me if I want to change all pages created with the template. But sometimes it asks, and sometimes it doesn't. Why? (When it doesn't ask, it means the pages created by the template remain unchanged).
   
   * When I create a template, Dreamweaver puts it in a Template folder. Then when I create a page with it, the internal links all say /Template/index.html or /Template/books.html or whatever. This means that when I upload pages, it can't find other links on the website.
   
   * And if I move the template out of the Template subfolder and try to "update" the links of all pages created with it...well, that doesn't work either.
   
   * Dreamweaver won't let me create my own pages the way I want. I want to pick my own font, size, etc. for each page. But DW keeps forcing "styles" on me. I pick NONE for style. Then when I pick a 14 Font, suddenly DW has picked STYLE 2 (or whatever). So I go back to NONE for style, and now my font is gone.
   
   * Or I'll pick a 14 Font Size, then a Lucinda Sans Font, and now the Font Size is changed. So I change the font size back to 14, and now the font is changed to Verdana, or whatever.
   
   A nightmarish program, in that it doesn't do what I want it do do. I keep redoing, and redoing everything, because sometimes DW will accept my instructions, and sometimes not. Everything has to be done 1 to 8 or so times before DW works.
   
   It's said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. Well, with DW you can do the SAME thing over, and you DO get a DIFFERENT result. Weird.
   
   * Oh yeah, the WYSIWYG feature does NOT work. I previewed a page in Firefox. It looked one way. Then I uploaded the page to my website, and looked at it again in the SAME Firefox -- only now it looks different -- some different fonts, some different colors.
   
   Crappy program.

1 comments about PDF Quick Converter/Creator Pro.

1. I don't own this product, and after reading this listing I'm fairly certain I never will. I'm supposed to trust my valuable documents to a company that would allow such a poorly written "product features" statement to appear online? No, thanks!

1 comments about Juilliard Music Adventure (PC / Mac).

1. Musical traditions of The Juilliard School are introduced in the game, where a mischievous gnome named Gnoise has stolen all the music from the Queen's castle. Exploring the castle, you have to solve the musical puzzles, free the Queen, and restore music to her realm.
   
   Also you can compose your own music with Rhythm and Melody Tools.

No comments about Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium Upsell.

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1 comments about Arthur's Reading Games.

1. We like the Arthur series, these computer games seem kind of easy to beat though, I think it took just one day for my 7 year old son to beat everything, but the game is repeatable.

4 comments about Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional [OLD VERSION].

1. Since version 6.5, each upgrade offers very little in terms of tools or enhancements. However what the motion graphics community can expect with each upgrade of AE, is a more crash-prone product. On a new workstation loaded with RAM, I've experienced sluggish performance, slower renders and a couple of crashes a day. Seems like a regular occurrence with other users as well.
   
   Let's hope Apple makes their animation software (Motion) much more appealing in the months to come. It may inspire Adobe to make a better product again.



2. Effects isn't the only Adobe product in the CS3 family that crashes. We are having issues with all of them. Photoshop which doesn't normally import huge files is now crashing our Mac G4. I'm running Sony's Vegas Video at home which has quite a few "effects" add-ons available from other vendors. If Adobe doesn't straighten this out maybe Sony will take up the slack.



3. I just purchased Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional used and abused the program without a hitch.. no crashing... an awesome program. I must add I'm running a PC 3.3 Ghz , SCSI HDs with 4 gigs of ram... I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 as well as PhotoShop CS3 extended edition. I acquired PhotoShop when I only had 1 gig of ram, it crashed several times until I upgraded to more ram. Haven't had an issue since the RAM upgrade



4. I have used this product as well as almost all the other CS3 Products and have not once experienced any crashes or what not and I use only PC computers. Never a Mac and have run it on my Home brew computer and a ASUS laptop and a cheap Dell computer and on all three I have not once experienced any problems. I have 2 gigs of ram on all three computers and all are AMD x2 400 to 4200+ cpu's
   
   Excellent product and would recommend it to anyone. Though find yourself a user guide if you have not used the CS3 softwares before.

No comments about NOVA Hallmark Card Studio 2007 Deluxe - Windows.

1 comments about Turbocad Mac V3 2D Cad for Mac.

1. it's not autocadd, but it's for a mac. it's ok, saves files as dwg. so, you can transport files to/from autocadd. that's the biggest plus. it's not autocadd, but for a mac, it works fine.