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Introducing Dreamweaver CS4
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Object libraries
In addition to site management functions that have become traditional, such as FTP publishing,
Dreamweaver adds a whole new class of functionality called libraries. One of the truisms of Web
page development is that if you repeat an element across your site, you’re sure to have to change
it—on every page. Dreamweaver libraries eliminate that drudgery. You can define almost anything
as a library element: a paragraph of text, an image, a link, a table, a form, a Java applet, an ActiveX
control, and so on. Just choose the item and open the Library category of the Assets panel (see Fig-
ure 2-20). After you’ve created the library entry, you can reuse it throughout your Web site. Each
Web site can have its own library, and you can copy entries from one library to another.
FIGURE 2-20
Use Dreamweaver’s Library feature to simplify the task of updating elements repeated
across many Web pages.
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