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Here’s a quick screencast of the extensions, as promised. I was going to do the whole thing in a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger accent, but instead you get my nervous voice and awkward inflection. Enjoy!

For the last little while we’ve been working on Dreamweaver extensions for our components and we’ll be releasing a beta very soon. In the meantime, I thought I’d provide a little preview of what’s to come.

Insert Bar
We’ve add objects in the Insert Bar which allows for quick insertion of components.

Inserting a component via the Insert Bar will automatically copy the required assets to your site and add the requisite script and stylesheet includes to your page.

Design Time Preview
When you have a Nitobi component in your page, you’ll get a nice preview in the design view.

The preview Grid matches the declaration as closely as possible . For example, the columns of the declaration are shown in the preview. If you set toolbarenabled to false, the toolbar will vanish. Changing the mode from standard to livescrolling will remove the paging icons from the toolbar. Yada, yada, yada.

Property Inspector
Each component has its own custom property inspector that allows you to quickly change a number of its attributes.

Databinding Wizard
One of the areas that causes some strife with new customers is how to set up our databound components. So we’ve created a little wizard that will hopefully help out. I’ll try to post a screencast later today (my mangled prose won’t do it justice).