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Graphic Tools

Notes Introduction

Dreamweaver is a Web design software program that can be used to create pages for display on
the World Wide Web. You can use Dreamweaver to create HTML pages, as well as files in these
formats: CSS, XML, ASP, PHP, JSP and more. It is the most popular Web design program among
professional Web designers. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia in 1997
and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. It
provides a visual WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor and a code editor with
standard features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, and code collapsing as well as
more sophisticated features such as real-time syntax checking and code introspection for
generating code hints to assist the user in writing code.

11.1 Designer Panel and Toolbar

We will now discuss the basics of Dreamweaver step by step.

11.1.1 Creating a New Page

To create a new page follow the steps below:

1. Click on the ‘File’ option
2. Select ‘New’ from the dropdown menu
3. Select ‘Basic Page’ and ‘HTML’ options from the ‘New Document’ dialogue Box
4. Choose ‘Create’ tab

11.1.2 Dreamweaver Window

The main window of Dreamweaver looks like the one provided in the figure below.

Figure 11.1: Dreamweaver Window

Source: http://etutorials.org/Macromedia/Dream+Weaver+Online+Help/Dreamweaver+Basics/
Exploring+the+Workspace/About+the+Dreamweaver+workspace/The+workspace+layout/

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