A visual development tool for creating, publishing, and managing websites and mobile content: Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET pronounced wizzywig) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

Features:

WYSIWYG

Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks

Subversion integration

FTP/SFTP support

WebDav support

Web site template system

Adobe Spry AJAX framework support

The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website assuming some prerequisites:

- a set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD.

- a configuration script that indicates the relationship between files

- a 'personality pack' (CSS and image files) that determine its visual appearance.

However if they are not present, the completed website falls back on a default look and feel.

Some features include:

- Batch file processing

- Modular XSLT structure, with special libraries for different transformation scenarios

- Ability to group files for generation of indices at document and intra-document level