November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
16h 4m
English
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Chapter 1. Dreamweaver UI
Dreamweaver’s rich feature set makes it an indispensable tool for professional web developers. Its visual interface offers easy access to standard HTML objects such as tables and frames, plus prebuilt scripts and behaviors, timeline-based activities, CSS support, and a JavaScript debugger. For webmasters, Dreamweaver includes site-management tools such as File Check In/Check Out and Design Notes.
This book covers Dreamweaver’s practical usage, including its site management features. Reference material from O’Reilly & Associates covering HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript is also included within the Dreamweaver 4 (DW4) Reference panel (Window → Reference).
This chapter will familiarize you with Dreamweaver’s Document window and some common elements you’ll use within it. These topics will help orient those who are familiar with HTML or earlier versions of Dreamweaver, but may be new to Dreamweaver 4. Although you should plan your site before beginning serious production work, this chapter will help you perform quick edits on existing pages and get immediate hands-on experience. For those who prefer the “top-down” approach, refer to Part II, which covers site management.
Your use of Dreamweaver will rely heavily on the Dreamweaver user interface (UI) objects discussed in this chapter. Macromedia’s documentation variously refers to Dreamweaver’s UI components as panels , inspectors, editors, bars, windows, and palettes, and we follow those ...
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