Development

If you've worked with Microsoft Word, you're familiar with the same basic pattern: type some text via keyboard, copy and paste with the mouse, type more text, move the cursor back a paragraph with the mouse, type yet more text, spell check using the mouse on the main menu etc.

Do you ever wonder how your web browser magically displays web pages? Or how Google miraculously returns millions of search results in a fraction of a second? It all boils down to efficient code.

For many developers, manipulating an HTML document by using JavaScript and the DOM (document object model) can seem like a pain in the neck. It takes a lot of raw JavaScript just to make a web page do a trivial trick that might have left an impression back in the early days of the web but nowadays looks commonplace and tired. If you want to make your web pages act and move like desktop applications, then it's hard to avoid using JavaScript.

Adobe's Dreamweaver is a fantastic web development application. It simplifies and streamlines a lot of the coding so that a web developer does not have to reinvent the wheel each time they create a new website. Dreamweaver also has a handy template management tool that makes it easy to update an entire website just by editing the template.