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Chapter 2. Introducing Dreamweaver CS4

In This Chapter

• Familiarizing yourself with the workspace

• Finding out about panels

• Creating a new Web site

• Discovering the Property inspector

• Using Live View to preview your page

• Understanding the Dreamweaver preferences

Dreamweaver CS4 lets you create and manage Web pages and complete Web sites. In this chapter, you find out how to start a Web site and build pages within it. Basically, a Web site is simply a group of linked pages that contain text and images and can also contain media, such as Flash movies, sound and video.

Getting to Know the New Workspace Setup

As a default, most workspace options are available to you in the form of panels, toolbars, or inspectors. This workspace can take some getting used to because it isn't totally consistent with the other Adobe applications in the suite.

When Dreamweaver is first launched, you see a Welcome screen. This screen provides the option to open any recent items (if you've created pages already), but also allows you to create new HTML, CSS, XML, sites, and many other files. You can also choose a selection from the Create from Samples column.

Dreamweaver provides you with all the tools you need in the initial workspace (see Figure 2-1).

Figure 2-1. The Dreamweaver workspace.

The Insert panel

The Dreamweaver CS4 Insert panel provides you with tools to insert common page elements, such as hyperlinks, e-mail links, ...