Do a web search on dreamweaver extensions and you quickly discover just how popular these add on applications can be in the world of web development. In addition, you’ll discover that dreamweaver templates are big business. All of these program plugins are designed to extend the basic functionality of the Adobe made web development program, Dreamweaver.

With slightly less popularity, a search on PHP scripts will show that there is still a clamoring for being able to purchase additional capabilities for the software that is used in web application development.

In days past, software applications were loaded up with tons and tons of capabilities causing the software to be over bloated and usually consisted of more than any individual might ever use. Now with the engineering designed to produce a lean, mean piece of core software, these add ons become the customization pieces.

If you’re focused on specific areas of development, you will want to load up only with the tools that make the most sense to your general tasks at hand. The same concepts are now being applied to web browsers.

Firefox is a prime example of allowing the end user to customize their tool to do much more than basic simple surfing of web pages.

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