Macromedia Dreamweaver

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a web development application and provides web designers and coders
with support for web page creation from designing to coding, code editing, code highlighting, connect
to an ftp and edit and upload files without using an ftp client, HTML data sets and integration with
Photoshop. Dreamweaver is particularly user friendly for beginners, it includes a help menu and tutorial
and comes with the WYSIWYG feature and what this does, is as you write normal text for web pages and
import pictures, the software writes the code for you which is hidden, and all you see is your webpages
created.

Around 1996 Macromedia, the original developers of Dreamweaver, acquired the iBand software,
creators of the HTML authoring tool Backstage. They went on to develop their own HTML authoring
tool named Macromedia Dreamweaver which used portions of the Backstage codebase and this was
released in 1997. It brought many benefits to HTML professionals such as the Roundtrip HTML feature
which allowed users to work back and forth from visual and code editing, meaning they could check
the progress of their work visually as they coded. This was commonly known as WYSIWYG web design,
what you see is what you get, and contributed greatly to Dreamweaver