Chapter Six. Working with Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver has come a long way since its acquisition by Adobe and inclusion in Creative Suite 3. For some designers, though, getting a toe in the water with the application has been a challenging, sometimes intimidating, experience. Although Dreamweaver offers a WYSIWYG working environment and helpful site-management tools, it’s inevitable that designers will, at some point, have to work with code and understand more about what’s going on “under the hood” than they might care to.

Rather than denying that reality, the Dreamweaver CS5 team instead added many new features specifically designed to lessen the “scary” factor for newcomers to Web design, Dreamweaver, or both. Site setup is simpler, starter layouts ...

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