Last month we began reviewing the Adobe Creative Suite 3 with our review of Photoshop CS3. This month we're going to take a look at Macromedia's flagship product Dreamweaver and it's new label Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 ... Adobe and Dreamweaver in the same sentence ... it just doesn't seem right somehow.

And, I must say, after opening up Photoshop CS3 and finding all the new "square-ness" I was a little disappointed to find that Dreamweaver was really very much the same as it used to be in Macromedia's Version 8. What has changed, in some ways, is the integration aspect with other Adobe products.

New Features
So, what else is new? Let's take a look:

• Dreamweaver and Photoshop are finally an old married couple with cut and paste sewn up between the two. Dreamweaver will receive an image cut straight out of Photoshop and even ask how you would like it saved. A marriage made in heaven? Well, perhaps. But once you have your image safely pasted into Dreamweaver the only quick edit button is with either Fireworks or a generic Image Editor, which was already there in Version 8.
• There is support for Ajax with the new Spry "includes" and there are Spry "widgets" as well, so developers have a win there.
• There is a nice browser compatibility checker and a validator included, which makes life a little easier.
• CSS has been improved with the ability to easily move CSS code from inline to head, from head to external sheet, from document to document, or between external sheets. Although, I found that when DW was confused by my actions it just dumped the CSS into the head and left it stranded outside of the external style sheet. Annoyingly not warning me that it was doing it. Dang, I hate untidy code.