Adobe Web Standard CS4 Upgrade from CS3 for Mac

This Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard Upgrade for Mac requires Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard software offers essential tools to design, develop, and maintain websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content.

New CS4 Features:

• Control of your content: Enable your clients to make updates to web pages directly from the browser. Add dynamic data to your site without a database or complex coding.
• New creative possibilities: Extend the limits of creative possibility with powerful new drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Enrich your projects with advanced video and audio capabilities.
• Collaboration across workflows: Enjoy timesaving integration among Creative Suite 4 components with common tools and interfaces, and easily exchange assets between components with powerful new file formats.
• Live View: Design your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver CS4 — while still retaining direct access to the code. Changes to the code are immediately reflected in the rendered display.
• Related Files and Code Navigator: Manage the various files that make up today's web pages more efficiently in Dreamweaver CS4. Click any related file to see both its source in Code view and the parent page in Design view. The new Code Navigator feature shows you all the CSS source code that affects your current selection.
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks: JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Put the extended coding functionality of Dreamweaver CS4 to work by incorporating popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.
• CSS best practices: Implement CSS best practices without writing code. Create new CSS rules in the Property inspector and get clear, simple explanations of where each property fits in the cascade of styles.
• HTML data sets: Integrate the power of dynamic data with your web pages without the learning curve of mastering databases or XML coding. Spry Data Sets recognize content in a simple HTML table as an interactive data source.
• Adobe Photoshop Smart Objects: Insert any Adobe Photoshop PSD document in Dreamweaver to create an image Smart Object. Smart Objects are tightly linked to the source file. Make any changes to the source image and update your image in Dreamweaver without opening Photoshop.
• Subversion integration: Use Subversion software, an open source versioning control system integrated with Dreamweaver CS4, for a more robust check-in/checkout experience. Update your site and check in modifications directly from within Dreamweaver.
• Spring-loaded panels: Drag related content from one panel to another without first opening the receiving panel. For example, drag a swatch from the Swatches panel into the Color panel without opening it first. Easily collapse and expand panels for workspace flexibility.
• Application Bar: Use a new control button in the menu bar to quickly switch to a new workspace, modify the view of a document, perform a search, or quickly access elements such as Adobe Bridge CS4.
• Tabbed documents: Manage and work across multiple documents with ease by quickly tabbing through open documents to find the one you need without having to maximize each document individually.
• Right-click tool access: Switch tools quickly by right-clicking a tool in the Tools panel, which opens the flyout menu and instantly exposes tool alternatives.
• Object-based animation: Gain complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of keyframes.
• Motion paths: Experience granular control over object animation paths — Flash CS4 Professional now automatically generates motion paths that can be easily modified using familiar Bezier handles.
• Motion presets: Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.
• Improved library: Work with assets more easily, thanks to an improved library that includes search capability and prioritization.
• Vertical Property inspector: Take better advantage of wider displays and gain screen space with the new vertically displayed Property inspector.
• Support for Adobe Pixel Bender: Easily apply custom filters and effects at runtime for real-time creative expression. Use the Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit, included with Flash, to create unique filters, blends, and fills to produce compelling, on-demand visual effects for the Flash Player runtime. Your visual effects are now portable to multiple applications.
• CSS-based export: Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, complete with external style sheets, in one step. Start with one of the six most common layouts and integrate foreground and background graphics with automatic margin and padding detection. Drop Fireworks rich symbols on your layouts to specify headings, links, and form properties for precise CSS control.
• Adobe PDF file export: Generate high-fidelity, protected Adobe PDF documents from your Fireworks design comps for enhanced client communication. Help safeguard your designs with optional password protection — separate passwords are definable for viewing and other tasks such as printing, copying, and commenting.
• Adobe AIR prototypes with Fireworks CS4: Create your Adobe AIR prototype directly within Fireworks, ready to be deployed to HTML and CSS, Flex, or SWF. Easily convert your click-through mock-up.
• Interactivity on the desktop: Deliver interactive experiences created with Flash CS4 Professional to the desktop with new capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime. Reach even more audiences across more devices — web, mobile, and now the desktop.
• Adobe AIR and Dreamweaver CS4: Create new HTML and JavaScript based Adobe AIR applications within Dreamweaver. Preview AIR applications without leaving Dreamweaver. Get your AIR application ready to deploy with AIR packaging and code-signing features.

Enhanced Features:

• Next-generation web experiences: Work in a real-world view of your rich CSS, JavaScript, SWF, and dynamic content directly in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Quickly integrate third-party web widgets from the most popular JavaScript frameworks into your pages.
• Support for best practices: Visually design with CSS best practices aided by jargon-free explanations of practical concepts. Create Ajax-driven interactivity while supporting best practices.
• Easy and efficient design: Bring your designs to life with intuitive new animation tools in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional that make your work easier and more efficient. Streamline your workflow with an improved user interface and a powerful coding environment.
• Delivery for a wide reach: Deliver interactive experiences that reach audiences across platforms and devices.The latest technologies, such as XMP for mobile and delivery to the Adobe AIR runtime, are right at your fingertips.
• Prototyping at the next level: Rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs with Adobe Fireworks CS4. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and quickly than ever before with an enhanced toolset. Demo your designs to clients live on the web or e-mail a PDF file generated from Fireworks. Integrate Live Styles and the improved Common Library for continual leaps in productivity.
• Smooth collaboration: Work faster and smarter with the accelerated performance of Fireworks CS4. Leverage the uniform user interface and core functionality, such as consistent text handling, across Fireworks and other Creative Suite 4 components.
• Designing for many platforms: Output your Fireworks designs to Adobe AIR, HTML, or Adobe Flash or Flex software. Craft custom skins for Flex components with the superior design tools of Fireworks. Design within Fireworks and, when you're ready, export standards-compliant CSS to Dreamweaver CS4. Create HTML-based Adobe AIR prototypes directly from within Fireworks to provide layout design and to display user interaction before developing your application.
• Delegation of work while retaining control: Delegate content publishing to content owners without compromising the integrity of your websites. Define and enforce custom publishing workflows to meet your organization's review and approval requirements for published content.
• User engagement: Empower end users to quickly and easily publish content to static and dynamic websites through true WYSIWYG authoring. Give users the choice of editing websites directly from their favorite browsers or composing and publishing web content from within Microsoft Office applications. Enable easy collaboration between users in the content publishing process.
• Compatible and affordable tool: Publish to the web in almost any computing environment thanks to compatibility with existing web and IT infrastructures and cross-platform interoperability. Adobe Contribute CS4 is affordable and works on Intel and PowerPC based Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
• Delivery for the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player: Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering to the most popular media player on the Internet today.
• New, standard user interface: Work faster and smarter across Creative Suite 4 components with a shared user interface design. Toggle quickly from one work environment to the next with the Workspace Switcher.
• Live Styles: Customize a Fireworks object or text with professionally designed styles or your own custom collection of styles. Update applied effects, colors, and text attributes for all instances of a style by modifying a single style source.
• Workspace improvements: Quickly place Smart Guides on your canvas for swift, accurate positioning and measurement of guides and elements — the heads-up display lets you know where you are on the canvas as you drag guides in place. Edit symbols in place for precise symbol refinement in context with the rest of your design.
• Optimization and scaling tools: Optimize graphics for virtually any delivery scenario with preview, cross-platform gamma preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap) with 9-slice scaling. Combine 9-slice scaling with the Auto Shape Library to accelerate website and application prototyping.
• Customizable and reusable assets: Jump-start your design process with the Common Library, a repository of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations frequently used in web and software applications, interfaces, and websites. Expand your collection with your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design.
• Superb design tools: Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files. Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character to text and symbols.
• Intelligent integration with other Creative Suite 4 components: Streamline your mobile authoring workflow through tight integration between Adobe Device Central CS4 and other Creative Suite 4 components, including Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, and After Effects CS4.
• Dynamically updated online library of device profiles: Access the latest device profiles available for use in Device Central CS4 through the dynamically updated online device library, which contains more than 450 Adobe Flash Lite enabled devices. Browse, search, and sort device profiles; directly compare multiple devices along several dimensions; and create custom sets of devices for quick project access.
• Smart testing environment: Easily preview and test the appearance, performance, and behavior of mobile content right on the desktop. Simulate various display conditions, such as backlight timeout and sunlight reflections, in the context of mobile device skins to better tune designs for real-world conditions.
• Flexibility in how you work: Take advantage of the latest advancements in hardware technology. Creative Suite 4 Web Standard is available for PowerPC and Intel based Macs as well as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Design in your preferred system and then deliver across platforms with reliable, consistent, and high-performance results.

Includes:

• Dreamweaver CS4
• Flash CS4 Professional
• Fireworks CS4
• Contribute CS4
• Adobe Bridge CS4
• Adobe Device Central CS4
• Version Cue CS4