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Dreamweaver Tutorial 29
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Dreamweaver provides many floating panels, such as the HTML Styles panel and
the Code inspector, which enable you to work with other Dreamweaver elements.
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The Launcher bar contains buttons for opening and closing your most
frequently used inspectors and panels.
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The Property inspector displays properties for the selected object or text, and
lets you modify those properties. (Which properties appear in the inspector
depend on the object actively selected in the document.)
To open Dreamweaver windows, inspectors, and panels, use the Window menu. A
check mark next to an item in the Window menu indicates that the named item is
currently open (though it may be hidden behind other windows). To display an
item that isn’t currently open, choose the item name from the menu or use its
keyboard shortcut.
Working in Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver can display a document in three ways: in Design view, in Code
view, and in a split view that shows both the design and code. (To change the view
in which you’re working, select a view in the Dreamweaver toolbar.) By default,
Dreamweaver displays the Document window in Design view.
In addition, you can work with the Dreamweaver Design view in two different
ways—in Layout view and Standard view. (You select these views in the View
category of the Objects panel.) In Layout view you can design a page layout, insert
graphics, text, and other media; in Standard view, in addition to inserting graphics
text and media, you can also insert layers, create frame documents, create tables,
and apply other changes to your page—options that aren’t available in Layout view.
How the tutorial files are arranged
Both the completed and partially completed HTML files used in this tutorial
are in the Compass_Site folder in the Tutorial folder. Images and other associated
files for the site are also in the Compass_Site folder.
Each tutorial file has a meaningful name—for example, the HTML file that
contains travel destination information is named Destinations.html. The partially
completed files—which you’ll be working on—have names similar to their
completed file counterparts, except they begin with DW4_; the partially
completed version of Destinations.html, for example, is called
DW4_Destinations.html.