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You can use the Assets panel in two different ways: as an easily accessible list of
the assets in your site (the Site list), or as a way to organize the assets that you
use most frequently (the Favorites list). The Assets panel automatically puts your
site’s assets in the Site list. The Favorites list starts out empty; you add whatever
assets you want to it.
Most of the operations of the Assets panel are the same in the Site list and in the
Favorites list. There are a few tasks, however, that you can perform only in the
Favorites list (see “Using favorite assets” on page 229).
Templates and library items are covered in more depth in “Reusing Content with
Templates and Libraries” on page 375.
Using the Assets panel
The Assets panel provides two ways to view assets: the Site list, which shows all of
the assets (of the types the panel recognizes) in your site, and the Favorites list,
which shows only the assets you’ve explicitly chosen. Most of the following
procedures can be performed in either the Site list or the Favorites list.
In both lists, assets are divided into categories; you choose which category of assets
to list by clicking one of the category buttons on the left side of the panel. (The
Site list and the Favorites list are both available for all categories of assets except
templates and library items.)
The Site list displays all assets (in recognized categories) that exist as files in your
site (whether or not any document uses them), as well as all colors and URLs that
are used in any document in your site.
You can work with the following categories of assets:
Images
are image files, in GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats. For information about
images, see “Inserting Images” on page 267.
Colors
are the colors used in documents and style sheets in your site, including
text colors, background colors, and link colors.
URLs
are the external URLs that documents in your site contain links to. This
category includes the following types of links: FTP, gopher, HTTP, HTTPS,
JavaScript, e-mail (
mailto
), and local file (
file://
).
Flash
movies are files in any version of Macromedia Flash format. The Assets
panel displays only SWF (compressed Flash) files, not FLA (Flash source) files. See
“About Flash content” on page 300.
Shockwave movies
are files in any version of Macromedia Shockwave format. See
“About Shockwave movies” on page 310.
Movies
are movie files in QuickTime or MPEG format. See “Inserting Media”
on page 297.