To use this free trial version you need to login to  your adobe account first. No worries signing up to get an adobe account is free.  I have been a Macromedia and Adobe products fan for more than 10 years now, so my account is still in good standing.

Fulled loaded, Dreamweaver CS5 consumes about 133Mb of RAM, a little bit more than its predecessor, CS4. Mind you I am “still running” on Windows XP machine with 3Gb of RAM installed  and  a Pentium 4 (3GHz) processor. But I can almost feel my PC “sweating” when running this new application.
I certainly need to upgrade to a dual core or quad core before committing to the Adobe Master Suite CS5.

Anyway, the user interface of Dreamweaver CS5 has remained pretty much the same as with previous versions (CS3, CS4). The two visible improvements are the Adobe BrowserLab and  Business Catalyst sidebar panels.

I talked about Adobe BrowserLab in a previous article, so no surprise here: it works just fine and can be a real time saver. As for the Business Catalyst I have not gone through its documentation yet but I will less likely shed over $900 on that product.

As you guessed it, I am still tinkering with the most obvious features during this first hour. However, as I dig deeper I will most certainly discover some nuggets to share with you in the upcoming days.  So stay tuned.

No matter how complex your website layout appears to be, you will for sure find the CSS layout that matches your design’s wireframes including the typical main containers such as the header, navigation bar and page content area. Smaller elements can then be wrapped by those main blocks.

Those Dreamweaver CSS layouts are cross-browser compatible therefore saving you time and the frustration of having to test your layout again all popular web browsers. All you need is make a few easy tweaks from the Dreamweaver CSS panel to update the dimensions, background styles and you can start adding your design elements.