Getting Started

A little about dream weaver:

Dreamweaver is a program by Adobe, the same company that does Flash animation. Dreamweaver is used by many professional web designers to speed up page design. Knowing HTML greatly increases the power of this tool. There are several parts to dream weaver. The two most important for this tutorial are the Property Inspector and the Code / Design Buttons:

Figure 1: The parts of the page

The Code/Design Buttons allow you to see how the page will look (WYSIWYG view) and the HTML source code of your page. Better designers will use the HTML to tweak how the page looks. There are three buttons: Code Only, Code and Design, and Design only

The Property Inspector allows you to format whatever part of the page is selected

 

Now that you have set up the necessary files, you are ready to begin creating a Web site with Dreamweaver MX.

  1. Start Dreamweaver . If Dreamweaver has not been used before on the computer that you are using, a message will appear asking how the user interface should appear:
  2. Click Dreamweaver workspace.
  3. Dreamweaver starts, as shown in Figure 1.

 

Figure 2: Initial Dreamweaver MX window

As shown in Figure 1, Dreamweaver MX creates a blank Web page, and displays a window called the Properties Inspector along the bottom of the Dreamweaver MX window. Note that if someone else has used Dreamweaver MX on the computer that you are using, different windows may be visible and the appearance of some windows may differ too.

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