What is Dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver by Macromedia is a professional web site development program. Designed by web developers for web developers.

Dreamweaver Workspace:

Document Window - Dreamweavers primary workspace. Empty canvas where you create your web pages.

Status Bar-

1. Tag Selector - Listing of current HTML tags. Your cursor's position in the document determines which tags are displayed in the Tag Selector. The Tag Selector constantly keeps track of where you are in the HTML document by displaying the tags surrounding your current cursor position.
2. Window Size pop-up menu - Gives designers a sense of how their pages look on different monitors. It shows you the screen size of the current document window, in pixels, in width x height format.
   The window size is given as the inside dimensions of the broswer window, without borders, the monitor size is listed in parentheses.
3. Download Indicator - Opening a page from your hard drive and opening a page over the internet are two very different experiences. You are shown the cumulative size of the page/the time it takes to download at a particular modem connection.
4. Mini Launcher - Same as the large launcher opens and closes windows: site, library, html sytles, css styles, behavior, history and html source.

Objects Palette:

The objects palette holds the items most often used when designing web pages. It it divided into six separate panels of objects: Characters, Common, Forms, Frames, Head and Invisibles. To switch between panels, click the small expander arrow at the top of the objects palette and then choose an option from the menu. One of the great advantages of the Object Palette is that it is totally customizeable.

Object Palette - Panel Views
Characters	Common	Forms	Frames	Head	Invisibles

TIP: Until you learn what all the icons represent, you might want to have the Objects Palette show a description of each icon:

1. Click Edit, then Preferences.
2. Highlight General.
3. In the Objects Palette drop down menu, choose Icons and Text.
4. Click OK.

Your Object Palette should now look like this:

The Property Inspector displays properties for selected objects. The Inspector changes to reflect the object selected, such as image properties when an image is selected.