Adobe

Dreamweaver
• a web authoring program
• developed by Adobe system
• WYSIWYG application
• most favorite tool by web developers
• formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver
• originally created by Macromedia
• criticisms
• Dreamweaver 8
 Provider Version Release Notes
Date
MACROMEDIA 1.0 Dec 1997 Initial release for Mac
1.2 March 1998 OS
First version for
Windows
3.0 December
4.0 1999
December
2000
6.0 (MX) May 2002
7.0 (MX September
2004) 2003
ADOBE 8.0 September Turn over
9.0 (CS3) 2005
April 2007
• creates web pages for the internet
• can be integrated with FTP client
• provide coded view and design view
Menu Bar Toolbar

lets you view the toolbars on active

such as standard and insert

provides access
to design, code,
application, tag, Panels
Document Window files, layers &
main workspace history
in creating you
webpage

displays and edit attributes Property

of any element
Inspector
• Layout
• includes tables, divs, layers, frames,
• all objects that help you describe the layout of your page
• Forms
• includes form elements (text field, buttons, checkboxes, etc.
• Text
• lets you style the text on the page
• HTML
• allow you to insert HTML objects
• Application
• for external data sources (PHP, ASP, etc.)
• Flash Elements
• holds the flash image viewer
• Common
• commonly used objects
• Favorites
• Customable category
1. Provides access to program
commands such as file saving and
closing.
2. Inserts most of the content and a) Panel Groups
objects on your web page. b) Standard Toolbar
3. Window that displays set of panels. c) Document Window
4. Main workspace of Dreamweaver d) Text
where elements are organize
e) Menu Bar
5. Contains shortcuts to preview and
display Dreamweaver features f) Common
6. Flash image viewer g) Insert Bar
7. Contains the most commonly used h) Flash Elements
objects such as links and images i) Properties Inspector
8. Allows you to insert HTML objects j) HTML
9. Lets you style the text on that’s
page
10. Also called the Tag Inspector.
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Bonus: What is the first step in creating a site with Dreamweaver?