Tom Negrino

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Tom Negrino is the author or co-author of more than three dozen books, including the best-selling Dreamweaver CS5: Visual QuickStart Guide, and JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Seventh Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide (both with Dori Smith). He has also written books on Macromedia Contribute and Microsoft Office. He is a longtime contributor to Macworld and other magazines. Tom lives in Northern California’s wine country.
  • Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
    Features: Written by Tom Negrino on June 10, 2010

    Pros: Supports the popular WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal content management systems; makes working with CSS easier; improved features for coding in PHP; more page preview options.

    Cons: No HTML5 or CSS3 support out of the box.

    Rating: 85 out of 100

  • Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
    Features: Written by Tom Negrino on October 27, 2008

    Pros: Better features for working with CSS; improved Photoshop integration; new Live View and Live Code more accurately render web pages within Dreamweaver.

    Cons: For Mac users, new interface takes over your screen, and requires some retraining for all longtime users.

    Rating: 85

  • Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
    Features: Written by Tom Negrino on April 25, 2007

    Adobe's massive Creative Suite 3 launch brings together the programs formerly owned by Macromedia, which Adobe acquired in 2006, with Adobe's own suite of design and Web tools. In CS3, two Adobe programs, GoLive and Image Ready, have been replaced by Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3.