Chapter 31: Understanding the Dreamweaver Environment

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Overview

Dreamweaver MX is a feature-rich, professional Web design and development program. Its tightly integrated environment enables you to design, build, and manage Web sites and Internet applications with easy-to-use visual design tools and a customizable coding environment that supports current and next-generation technologies for static Web sites or server-based Web applications. Dreamweaver's Features and tools are supported by panels that you can group and dock as needed. Design and Code view options enable you to work in a comfortable environment. A single-click option lets you change views at any time. Contextual menus and panel options provide convenient access to tools and may be supported with custom keyboard shortcuts. Program preferences enable you to select specific settings for your workflow, from opening new documents to previewing work in progress. Dreamweaver is also extensible, which means you can add new objects, behaviors, and commands to add new tools, features, and functions to your application.

In this chapter you'll become familiar with the Dreamweaver MX workspace, which is the basis for using all the tools available in Dreamweaver MX.

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