We're still not sure about Business Catalyst as a tool for most developers, who are likely to have their own staging servers or hosting relationships - especially as it uses custom code that's not particularly portable.
A free trial site is available for Dreamweaver users, and gives you somewhere to test sites, as well as quickly sharing prototypes or completed sites with clients. Dreamweaver supports Business Catalyst's modules, dropping the appropriate tags into your pages. You can use it to host sites with their own domains, using the built-in CMS and ecommerce tools. If you need to show your clients live site designs, Adobe has added support for its Business Catalyst site hosting service. If you're building a mobile site, Dreamweaver 6 includes support for JQuery Mobile, with a library of components that can be added to any page Business Catalyst and Dreamweaver CS6 There's even the option to use a QR code to load an app straight to a device from the PhoneGap Build site, and you can use one to send clients to a public page for their app approval. Once a build is complete, all you need to do is download your app from the PhoneGap site for testing, and eventual publishing on an app store. You can control which platforms you're building for using the PhoneGap Build panel in Dreamweaver, which reports on build status for each platform you're targeting. Instead of publishing to a web server, mobile applications can be delivered to Adobe's PhoneGap Build cloud service. The mobile web isn't just about browsers, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 adds tools for working with PhoneGap, Adobe's tool for packaging web applications into apps that run on the major phone platforms. Where once you'd have had to write code, you can now quickly configure CSS and apply it to page elements Mobile development and site hosting Other users may find it harder to justify, but we'd recommend upgrading just for the improvements in CSS support - as technologies like CSS Transforms and Fluid Grids will help deliver the modern designs users are expecting.ĬSS Transitions simplify adding special effects to a page. If you're working with HTML5 or with sites that need to deliver to multiple devices, then you're going to want to upgrade.
While there are plenty of new features, this is still the familiar Dreamweaver, so it's easy to upgrade from CS5 or CS5.5, with little or no learning curve. Despite the improvements in CSS support, Dreamweaver's minimalist approach to JavaScript libraries remains a problem, especially with the increasing importance of combined script and CSS frameworks.
That's why it's good to see plenty of support for CSS3's more advanced features in Dreamweaver - including CSS Transitions. HTML5 is still evolving, but many of its family of standards are already in use. Dreamweaver has become the standard web design and development tool for many organisations, and Dreamweaver CS6 needed to respond to the way the web has changed, as well as the way it is changing.