The Dreamweaver Workspace
In Dreamweaver CS4 there are many ways to arrange the workspace. In class all screenshots and examples will be done using Classic view.
- Document Window – large white window where you create and edit Web Pages
- Menu Bar – located above document Window, Includes menu names, each of which contains Dreamweaver commands
- Insert Bar – includes eight groups of Buttons displayed in a drop down menu – Common, Forms, Text, HTML, Application, Flash Elements, and Favorites
- Document Tool bar – Contains buttons and drop down menus you can use to change current work mode, preview web pages, debug web pages, choose visual aids, and view file management options
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- Standard Tool bar – contains buttons you can use to execute frequently used commands also available on the File and Edit Menus
- Property Inspector – Located at the bottom of the Dreamweaver Menu – Lets you view and change the properties of a selected object.
- Status Bar – located below the document window
- Tag Selector – Located in the status bar, Displays the HTML tags used at the insertion point.
- Panel – is a window that that displays information on a particular topic
- Panel Groups - sets of related panels that are grouped together
- Views – a particular way of displaying page content. Dreamweaver has three working view:
- Design View – Shows the page as it would display in the browser
- Code View – shows the underlying HTML for the page
- Code and Design View – is a combination of both
