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DMXzone Bootswatch to be Released on Wednesday

Our developers have been working on the next great addition to the DMXzone Bootstrap 3 family and later this week you'll have amazing themes in your hands to give your site a fresh look. Based on the great open source themes by Thomas Park from Bootswatch.com, DMXzone Bootswatch will offer you 15 different designs to enhance your Bootstrap 3 components, navigation and layout with minimal effort for maximum user experience and impact. Applying a new bootstrap theme is as easy as it gets, all you need to do is choose the design and click the apply button, directly in Dreamweaver. You can check out a sneak preview of the them below but stay tuned for more insights coming tomorrow!

What You Missed This Week

In our weekly content summary you'll find all the articles, announcements, showcases, video tutorials and more that we released during the last five days. Our main focus was DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation extension that we released recently and its powers that can save you time while designing your next project.  If you still don't have this great tool you should check out the Bootstrap 3 Collection pack that features it along with DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 3 Elements.

7 Reasons to Use Bootstrap 3 Navigation in Your Design

Designing a simple and easily accessible navigation is the key to a successful user experience on your website. Being in year 2014 the responsive design and navigation is not just a trend anymore but a must if you want your page or app to be a factor and function as it should. Forget about multi-level dropdowns, they just don't have much of a place on the web anymore, especially on mobile web. In the next lines we'll show you the great advantages of DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation and how awesome this Dreamweaver extension is.

All Bootstrap 3 Extensions Now in a Single Pack

With the release of our navigation tool we finally took all our Bootstrap 3 extensions and added them intro a discount package. DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Collection is an amazing pack of extensions that will let you create fully responsive websites that look awesome on desktop browsers as well as mobile devices. Also it features a tool for adding stunning page elements and great navigation to empower great user experience. If you still haven't got the chance to work with Bootstrap 3 framework now you can design complete websites with it in no time, using DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Collection.

Last Chance for Bootstrap 3 Navigation Special Price

A week ago we released DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation and since then we showed you a few awesome pages built with this great Dreamweaver tool, and today we have another one that represents a gorgeous beach villa in a one page scrollable website. In order to create it we used DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Elements for the page layout and content, DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation for the fully responsive navbar, which becomes collapsible when viewed on mobile devices. We also added a responsive DMXzone Nivo Slider for the great image slideshow. Additionally, there's a DMXzone Google Maps to indicate the location of the villa and animated content elements with HTML5 Animate CSS.

If you still don't have the DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation be quick because the introduction sale ends tomorrow!

Add Dynamic Dropdowns to a Navbar

This week we will continue to show you tips and tricks you can use, while working with our newly released DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation extension. Today's video tutorial will walk you through the creation of dynamic dropdowns in a navbar. First we will create a data source, add a DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation navbar, add a dropdown to the navbar and finally we will apply a repeat-children region to the dropdown list. Check out the movie below and see how easy it is.

Keep in mind that DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation is only on sale until Wednesday so you have two more days to get it with a discount!

Add Contextual Dropdowns with Bootstrap 3 Navigation

In today's video tutorial we'll take a look of one of the available dropdowns in our newly released DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation. What we'll do is to add contextual dropdowns in a blog page with several options for the user to choose from. You'll need DMXzone Bootstrap 3 for the page layout, Bootstrap 3 Navigation to add a button dropdown and DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Elements to style the button to fit your design. Check out the video below and keep in mind that DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation is currently on sale if you still don't have it.

DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation Released and on Sale

Here comes the great news most of you have been waiting for since we released DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Elements. We're proud to announce the extension that will make the Bootstrap 3 package complete - DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation! Empower fully responsive navigation for optimal user experience. The extension offers extensive visual management and rendering of your navigations, directly in Dreamweaver Design View. And now you can even use it in Dreamweaver CS3+ as we lowered the requirements on the whole package of Bootstrap 3 extensions.

Until next Wednesday you can get DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation with a discount so hurry up! If you don't have DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Elements you can benefit from the multiple purchase discount and buy all three extensions at once!

DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Elements Available for DW CS3+

If you're using Dreamweaver CS5 or any lower DW version than that until today you weren't able to install our awesome DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and its Elements add-on. But our developers made everything possible to change this and now we're happy to announce that you can use them, along with our newly released DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation, in any Dreamweaver CS3+ version! Keep in mind that due to the lack of media query support and modern browser rendering engine, the rendering in Dreamweaver design view might not be optimal for versions under DW CS5.5 but the extensions remain fully functional!

Bootstrap 3 Onscroll Navigation in Action

Last but not least today we'll show you probably one of the most amazing feature in DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation - the automatic "active" item selection. For this live showcase we designed one page scrollable site, using DMXzone Bootstrap 3 and Elements for the responsive design, and HTML5 Animate CSS for the content elements animations. Using DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Navigation the page has been divided into sections and based on the scroll position the navbar automatically highlights the navigation target item.