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You can control the display, locking and snap setting of guides and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 includes a limited selection of preset guides representing the safe visible area of browsers at various screen sizes. Much more practically useful for accurately positioning layouts is the new support for rulers and draggable guides complete with tooltips for providing feedback on position and distances between. The importance of this is seriously overplayed as web design is always viewed at 100%, but it should help users working on high resolution screens and possibly when aligning objects.

In terms of wysiwyg design power, Dreamweaver 8 now falls into line with GoLive by offering a zoom capability - ranging between 6% and 3600%! - and Fit All, Fit Width and Fit Selection commands. It is these same three core areas - visual design, coding and productivity - that are targeted in this latest release. It has achieved this commanding position by combining a wysiwyg design environment with unbeatable hands-on coding power and by focusing throughout on workflow-based efficiency. You can also buy Dreamweaver 8 bundled with the $999 Macromedia Studio 8, a $399 upgrade for existing Studio owners.With over 3.5 million users, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 dominates the world of professional web authoring in much the same way that Adobe Photoshop dominates photo-editing. Still, the low $199 upgrade fee of Dreamweaver 8 makes the decision a no-brainer for current professional users of Dreamweaver MX 2004 or earlier editions. Adobe pros should consider GoLive CS2, which integrates well with the Adobe Creative Suite 2. But not everyone will need everything that's in Dreamweaver amateur site designers should stick with simpler software, such as HomeSite or Microsoft FrontPage. Dreamweaver 8 also allows you to drag and drop syndicated XML feeds.

For example, interface enhancements allow you to zoom in for detailed page views, ruler guides make it easier to measure elements within a page, sections of code are now collapsible, and nesting and color-coding make CSS elements simpler to identify.

The interface of this compelling update is complex yet well organized, alleviating most of our complaints about its predecessor. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a sophisticated Web design app that best serves professionals incorporating multimedia elements and database-driven content into their sites.