I wonder if it will happen. They would need to act fast on getting GoLive 9 out before people start switching over to Dreamweaver. Personally, I don't understand why they even need two web applications.. how old is this page would be my next question. If this page is from last year that maybe they changed their minds.
Dreamweaver is more of a pro app, GoLive will be the consumer app. Nuf said.
Well, there's no need for imageready either. Who uses that? Who uses FW anymore either? People need to quit slicing up documents 2 or 3 years ago and learn a little CSS - for the sake of their site visitors.
You can optimize for the web by simply using the save for web command or whatever it's called these days. Same 2,3, or 4 way dialog for compressing web graphics.
Agreed. Unless you need to make animated gifs, there is not much use for either app now...
Ah, I use ImageReady. Sorry but how exactly does CSS slice up a 800x600 graphic into gifs and jpgs? Didn't think so. Just because you don't need it doesn't lower it's value to those that do. CSS isn't for slicing, optimizing images or dealing with animation frame rates, etc, it's for everything else. ImageReady handles all of that and I was told ImageReady would be included in the final CS3 release at the Adobe forums beta testing PS. We'll see if that's true.
Slicing up a 800x600 image for a design is like getting out the Members-only jacket for a party. It's just not done anymore.
The needed parts of Imageready have been absorbed into PS.
The only real need with imageready or fireworks is creating animated gifs. PS will do everything else.
And you can use PS to slice if you must.
you DO KNOW that photoshop is not suited to web graphics work, right? and you DO KNOW that the HTML and JavaScript that Dreamweaver creates is a complete mess, right?
HAhahahahahahahahha...............
Yes, if you work purely in the Dreamweaver GUI, the code has some problems... BUT have YOU tried the new version yet?.. Do YOU know that this is still a problem?...
However, ANY serious web developer would never use a GUI to build a page. Everyone I know who uses Dreamweaver edits their code in the code section, bypassing the the GUI builder. And for smaller corporate sites or other stand-alone sites, the Dreamweaver/Contribute combo is great.
And EVERY web developer I know uses PS to create web graphics. If you think that Fireworks is the only web graphics app, then you need to grow beyond your box of crayons you've been using.
Photoshop can make animated gifs too.
true, but it's clumsier than in imagready... at least in CS2.
I clearly listed Photoshop Extended as part of the CS 3 Design bundle. Maybe you should read.
You may consider Extended and Flash worth the extra $200, but I don't. Since Extended is nothing more than Photoshop with additional plug-ins, the bulk of the extra $200 is for Flash.
But you are saying that all they added was flash, which is incorrect. Premium includes video and 3D support in PS, which it doesn't sound like you need.
And it includes Dreamweaver.
Get the standard version then. End of story.
And if you use Flash and Dreameaver, that bundle is a great deal
Order a different bundle and quit griping.
