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Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on, so to speak.

Not for the first time, I was happily writing CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed.

The crash

Something feels a little too familiar - this is DW after all - but I try to restart anyway: it’s 1am and I don’t need this. Nope, there it is, unequivocal and painfully blunt: Dreamweaver CS3 won’t start on Windows XP.

The following options were available:

• Abuse someone at Adobe
• Reinstall Dreamweaver
• Try to clean out my config files so that Dreamweaver has to create new ones on restart (an old and occasionally successful solution)

After the jump: getting Dreamweaver up and running again

Studio 8 is here, announced Macromedia on Monday.

I’ve taken a look at the demos. A lot of the focus seems to have been on GUI improvements and extended support for technologies.

There haven’t been too many changes in Flash 8 - better video support, some more development for non-coders, improved GUIs and so on.

Dreamweaver 8 is gearing up for better CSS support, but it actually looked a bit confusing from the demo.

Fireworks 8 introduces more filters to bring it closer to Photoshop and some interesting CSS support for menus. Freehand remains unchanged (again).