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Date: Thursday, November 17, 2005<br>
To: "Members of the MIT Community:" itpartners@mit.edu,
macpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu, sw-release-announce@mit.edu,
ed-tech@mit.edu, web-pub@mit.edu<br>
From: Margaret Wong <meponine@mit.edu><br>
Subj: Dreaweaver 8 Release Announcement<br>
Cc: is&t@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu, ist-lead@mit.edu,
ist-comm@mit.edu, css-managers@mit.edu,
dreamweaver-release@mit.edu<br><br>
Good Evening,<br><br>
Information Services and Technology (IS&T) is pleased to announce the
release of Dreamweaver 8. Dreamweaver 8 is the recommended HTML editor
and web page creation tool supported at MIT. <br><br>
<font size=4><b>Who Should Upgrade and Why<br>
</b></font>You should upgrade if you are running a Mac OS 10.3 or higher
or a Windows XP machine (see the MIT Information Services &
Technology Dreamweaver 8 pages for full system requirements) and are
looking for <b>improved rendering support for Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS)</b> in design view and <b>docked panels/tabbed interface for open
documents on Mac</b> (as on PCs in previous versions). Along with
Dreamweaver's support for XHTML and Accessibility, developers now have a
tool built to promote web standards. If you are unfamiliar with the
benefits and legal obligations of developing with web standards, please
see the Code Standards page of the IS&T Web Publishing Reference
pages -
<<a href="http://mit.edu/ist/web/reference/create/standards.html" eudora="autourl">
http://mit.edu/ist/web/reference/create/standards.html</a>>.<br><br>
<b>System requirements pages:<br>
</b>Dreamweaver 8 for Mac:
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=695" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=695</a>> <br>
Dreamweaver 8 for Windows:
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=697" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=697</a>><br><br>
<font size=4><b>How to get Dreamweaver 8<br>
</b></font><font size=2>I</font>nformation Services and Technology has
negotiated a volume license agreement with Macromedia to provide a
limited number of Dreamweaver 8 licenses to the community. In an
effort to increase the types of software that IS&T can provide the
MIT community at significant discounts, we are beginning an experiment in
charging a small nominal fee for software such as Dreamweaver for faculty
and staff to use on MIT-owned computers. The goal is to recover
some of our costs to enable purchasing additional volume software
licenses that the community wants. <br>
<br>
Cost of Dreamweaver License and CD:<br>
* MIT: $35<br>
* Comparable Institution: $120<br>
* Retail Academic Shrink Wrap: $177<br>
<br>
For more information on the nominal fee experiment, please visit
<<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/nominalfee.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/nominalfee.html</a>>.<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"> <br>
</font>Staff and Faculty need to supply an appropriate Cost Object/Cost
Center when ordering licenses and media. IS&T will journal voucher
(JV) the appropriate funds and provide you with a confirmation/invoice
for your records. <font size=2>Your local software liaison,
<<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca-osliaisons.html" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca-osliaisons.html</a>>,
may have already obtained Dreamweaver licenses for you. Please
check with them before ordering licenses.<br>
</font> <br>
There are also a limited number of Dreamweaver 8 licenses available to
students on a temporary basis at no charge for academic use. Students
need to provide their course number and a brief explanation of how they
will use Dreamweaver for academic purposes when requesting licenses and
media. <br><br>
Faculty and Staff form: <br>
<<a href="https://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/forms/mit-dw8-dept.html" eudora="autourl">
https://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/forms/mit-dw8-dept.html</a>>
[certificates required]<br><br>
Students who would like temporary use of a Dreamweaver 8:<br>
<<a href="https://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/forms/mit-dreamweaver-student.html" eudora="autourl">
https://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/forms/mit-dreamweaver-student.html</a>
> [certificates required]<br><br>
<font size=4><b>Other New and Supported Features<br>
</b></font>* Zoom, select/hand/guide tools<br>
* Increased accessibility checkpoints reporting<br>
* Background FTP<br>
* Code collapse (rollup)<br>
* Enabling easier access to commonly used code editing tools via the
coding toolbar<br>
* see Dreamweaver 8: New Features -
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7973" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7973</a>><br><br>
<font size=4><b>Unsupported Features</b></font> (the following features
are not supported by IS&T)<br>
* Developing with XSLT, XML, .NET, PHP, J2EE/JSP, ASP or CFML<br>
* XPath expression builder and its resulting XSLT<br>
* Advanced template features: template parameters<br>
* Built-in image editing<br>
* Flash elements<br>
* Integration with 3rd party applications such as Contribute, Flash,
Fireworks<br>
* Integration of RSS feeds using XML/XSLT<br><br>
<font size=4><b>Known Issues<br>
</b></font>Please read through the known issues at
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7975" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7975</a>> before installing
Dreamweaver 8. There are various known and emerging issues
documented by Macromedia that are being updated as problems are
discovered by the world wide community. Subscribe to the Macromedia
Dreamweaver RSS feed to get the latest updates
<<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/rss_dreamweaver" eudora="autourl">
http://www.macromedia.com/go/rss_dreamweaver</a>>. You can use the
IS&T RSS Feed Converter to add the Macromedia Dreamweaver RSS feed to
your web page
<<a href="http://rss.mit.edu" eudora="autourl">http://rss.mit.edu</a>
>. To see an example, see the Dreawmeaver Release Notebook
"News" section -
<<a href="http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/dreamweaver/" eudora="autourl">
http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/dreamweaver/</a>>.<br><br>
<font size=4><b>Getting Help & Training<br>
</b></font>The Dreamweaver at MIT web page is at
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?name=dreamweaver" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?name=dreamweaver</a>>.<br><br>
If you have a question or need assistance, please contact the Computing
Help Desk at computing-help@mit.edu or x3-1101.<br><br>
For training opportunities, please see Dreamweaver and Web Publishing
Training Classes -
<<a href="http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7991" eudora="autourl">
http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7991</a>>.<br><br>
Thank you.<br><br>
Margaret Wong<br>
Dreamweaver 8 Product Release Coordinator<br>
MIT Information Services & Technology <br><br>
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