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reamweaver’s user interface is efficient, powerful, and flexible.
By offering a wide variety of customizable tools and controls,
Dreamweaver helps you tailor its workspace to your specific prefer-
ences and needs so that you can focus on the task of creating your Web site.
This chapter provides a detailed overview of the Dreamweaver workspace
so you know where all the tools are when you need to use them.
Choosing a Workspace Layout
One of Dreamweaver’s greatest strengths is its flexibility. The makers of
Dreamweaver realize that not everyone works in the same way, and they
have created a product that you can customize to maximize your efficiency.
By default, Dreamweaver provides a range of different workspace layouts
and even allows you to customize your own.
You can access these options by choosing Window ➪ Workspace Layout or
by choosing the Workspace switcher in the Applications bar, and selecting
one of the available choices.
The default layout option is referred to as the Designer workspace. Here,
the most design-oriented of Dreamweaver’s many panels are organized into
groups and docked on the right side of the window, with the panel names
exposed. The Designer workspace is illustrated in Figure 3-1.
A variation on the Designer workspace is the Coder workspace option.
Here, the panels are docked on the left side of the window rather than the
right. With this option, when you ...