The latest version of Dreamweaver – Dreamweaver 8 – has been launched today. I was lucky enough to be involved with the Beta and so have been working with this new version for several months. So, is it worth the upgrade?

Dreamweaver的最新版本– Dreamweaver 8 –已于今天发布。 我很幸运能够参与Beta版，因此使用这个新版本已经有几个月了。 那么，值得升级吗？

If you use Dreamweaver for visual design, and in particular for CSS based layouts, then I think it is. There are some superb new features which make working visually with CSS far easier. The new Unified CSS Panel means that all of your CSS tools are in one place and you can edit CSS in the existing way – via the CSS Rule Definition Dialog – or edit properties in the Panel, while seeing the changes in Design View. When working in Design View, new Visual Aids help you to see how the different page elements in your layout work together, by showing you padding and margins applied to elements for example, or setting each positioned element with a different background colour. These Visual Aids are really useful, especially for those just getting to grips with CSS, as confusing issues such as how the Box Model works are highlighted clearly.

如果将Dreamweaver用于视觉设计，尤其是用于基于CSS的布局，那么我认为是。 有一些精妙的新功能使使用CSS进行可视化操作变得更加容易。 新的Unified CSS Panel意味着所有CSS工具都在一个地方，您可以通过现有的方式（通过CSS Rule Definition对话框）编辑CSS ，也可以在Panel中编辑属性，同时在Design View中查看更改。 在Design View中工作时，新的Visual Aid可以帮助您查看布局中不同页面元素的工作方式，例如，向您显示应用于元素的填充和边距，或为每个定位的元素设置不同的背景色。 这些可视化工具非常有用，尤其是对于那些刚接触CSS的人来说 ，因为诸如Box Model的工作原理之类的令人困惑的问题被清楚地突出了。

All of the above wouldn’t be much help if the rendering of CSS within Design View was poor, however this new version of Dreamweaver comes with a greatly improved rendering engine, and for most CSS layouts what you see is actually what you will get in a decent, modern browser. There are also many other improvements – new functionality to work with XML and XSL for example – and the product seems faster and more stable than the previous version.

如果在Design View中CSS的呈现效果很差，那么上述所有内容都将无济于事，但是Dreamweaver的新版本附带了一个大大改进的呈现引擎，对于大多数CSS布局，您看到的实际上是您将获得的一个体面的现代浏览器。 还有许多其他改进，例如与XML和XSL一起使用的新功能，并且该产品比以前的版本看起来更快，更稳定。

There is, as always, a free 30 day trial available for download. If you try it out or upgrade I’d be really interested to know how you get on with it. As part of my work with WaSP I’m a member of the Dreamweaver Task Force, and we are keen to feed back to the Dreamweaver team our thoughts – good and bad – about this new version, with regard to how it supports designers and developers who want to work to web standards.

与往常一样，有30天免费试用版可供下载 。 如果您尝试或升级，我真的很想知道您如何继续使用它。 作为与WaSP合作的一部分，我是Dreamweaver工作组的成员，我们热切希望将有关新版本的想法（无论好坏）反馈给Dreamweaver团队，以了解它如何支持设计师和开发人员。谁想要按照网络标准工作。