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When I first started with print and design layout, I would drive all over
the city to finish a job. After receiving the client??™s go-ahead, I had to
pick up my type from a phototypesetter and my images from a stat
house. Then, back at my studio, I??™d cut and paste??”and I mean literally, with
scissors and glue??”the text and images into place, hoping against hope that I
had specified the type and image sizes correctly. If not, it was back in the car for
another trip or two around town. Ah, the good old days.
Now designers (especially those who design for the Web) have the luxury of developing
their creations right in their own studio. Until Dreamweaver, however, the
development of a Web application often undertook a faster, albeit parallel, course
to my inner-city travels. After a basic page was designed, complete with server-side
code, the document had to be uploaded to a testing server and then viewed in a
browser over the Internet. If??”make that when??”changes were needed, the pages
were revamped back in the studio. Because the designer was not able to lay out the
page with the actual data in place, modifications were a trial-and-error process that
often required many, many trips to the server and back.
Dreamweaver??™s Live Data view eliminates the tedium and the lengthy time
required for the upload-preview-modify-upload cycle.
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