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Introduction
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a professional HTML editor for designing,
coding, and developing websites, web pages, and web applications.
Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML, or prefer to work
in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver provides you with helpful
tools to enhance your web creation experience.
This guide introduces you to using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 if you’re
unfamiliar with any major aspect of it.The tutorials in this guide lead you
through the process of creating a simple but functional website.
This chapter covers the following topics:
What you can do with Dreamweaver 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
What's new in Dreamweaver 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing Dreamweaver 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Registering Dreamweaver 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Typographical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
What you can do with
Dreamweaver 8
The visual editing features in Dreamweaver let you quickly create web
pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site elements or
assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a document.
You can streamline your development workflow by creating and editing
images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application, and then
import them directly into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver also provides tools
that make it easy to add Flash assets to web pages.