[Macworld]

Post your comments for First Look: More CS4 app previews here

[leicaman]

Well, it's about time Dreamweaver got smart objects. That was the one thing I missed from GoLive when I switched. I'm glad Adobe got it in this version.
Photoshop CS4 Extended and Bridge, which really improve performance-wise on Mac Pros, along with Flash and DreamWeaver make the whole suite upgrade worth every penny. I'm moving up ASAP.
And if you're an NAPP member, don't forget to use the discount. I discovered I'm going to save about $90 on the upgrade to the Design Suite Premium. Worth the price of membership! (I paid less for the education discount on the NAPP membership).

[himbo]

There might be an extra 9 in the price stated for the CS4 Web Premium package.

[m_flo]

It looks like Adobe has figured out how to make Flash suck a little less! Yay!!! (I say this as a long-time After Effects user who finds Flash's current/past animation controls to be COMPLETELY counter-intuitive). Maybe now I'll also be able to duplicate a layer or layer set without a 3rd-party plug-in? And maybe the drawing tools will actually make sense and work more like Illustrator's?
What about ActionScript? That wasn't mentioned at all in this "First Look" article.

[alansky]

"Web professionals, who have often looked down on the WYSIWYG orientation of the program..." —MacWorld
HAH! That's a laugh! Dreamweaver is one of the most designer-unfriendly apps in the history of the universe thanks to whatever convoluted logic resulted in hard-wiring web page creation to a primitive, graphically-retarded environment like html. Need fonts? We've got Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate!

[Philip Michaels]

himbo said:

There might be an extra 9 in the price stated for the CS4 Web Premium package.

Yes. I've zapped it.

Although I'm sure if you want to pay $1,6999, Adobe will accept the check.

[Morri]

alansky said:

"hard-wiring web page creation to a primitive, graphically-retarded environment like html"

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. Dreamweaver is a web design application and the web uses HTML. What other choice is there?

[himbo]

Philip Michaels said:

Yes. I've zapped it.Although I'm sure if you want to pay $1,6999, Adobe will accept the check.

Aha! You must be working on commision.

[beluga1]

I'm feeling totally ripped off by Adobe. i got a message from them in August that they were no longer supporting GoLive, and we users could purchase Dreamweaver at a special "reduced" upgrade price. At $220 it was hardly cheap. But, after some soul searching, I went ahead and bought Dreamweaver CS3. A month (to the day) later, they release CS4. So I immediately wrote them asking if I can download the new version for free. Sorry, they answer it's been slightly more than 4 weeks since you bought it. In politics they call that a "gotcha". They want another $200 from me. That's just wrong.