Summary of functions

1. Web site creation

Dreamweaver's primary function is to enable the user to create web pages and web sites. Even if you have no knowledge of the underlying web technologies, Dreamweaver allows you to become productive in the web site creation process.

2. Web site management

Dreamweaver also has an impressive array of features for managing your web site. It has tools for planning and setting up sites and for uploading and downloading files to and from a server. There are powerful tools for maintaining consistency across your pages and for modifying and updating elements across the entire site. As your site progresses, Dreamweaver also allows you to preview and test your pages.

3. Collaboration

Dreamweaver allows teams of developers, designers and other web site contributors to work together on the same files without treading on each others toes. When Dreamweaver's collaboration features are activated, opening a file causes it to become unavailable to other members of your team and flags the file as currently being modified by you.

4. Dynamic Content

Dreamweaver also allows the inclusion of dynamic content into your web sites. It has powerful code-generation facilities for connecting to databases and database servers, for creating search and results pages and for setting up user authentication.