I can’t believe I’m doing this. I’m glad to be here writing for you about the soon to be launched next generation of Dreamweaver, but I can’t believe it’s a whole version since the last time we did this. I’m Nancy Gill and I’m very happy to have been asked by the DMX Zone to return for an encore performance and introduce to you Dreamweaver CS3, the first version of Dreamweaver to bear the company name of “Adobe.” I remember being online around midnight on Sunday night in April of 2005 when the word came down the Team Macromedia list that the sale of our beloved Macromedia to Adobe Systems (of all companies) would be announced on Monday morning. I never went to bed that night. As people came online over the next 4-6 hours and heard the news, there was a lot of speculation, reaction and very mixed emotions. What was going to happen to our favorite Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash? Had this artsy corporate giant bought out the company we had laughed with and cried over only to kill off the products we had spent close to a decade using and promoting?
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