A note for our Mac-using friends

If you've flipped through this book already, you probably noticed that the vast majority of the screenshots were taken on machines running Windows. That doesn't mean that the book (or its authors) don't welcome Dreamweaver users on the Mac. Far from it; in fact, both of us are primarily Mac users, and we are frequent contributors to Macworld magazine and other Mac-oriented publications .

However, our crack research department tells us that most Dreamweaver users are running the program on Windows machines, so we have included screenshots that will reflect the experience of the majority of our readers. Happily, Dreamweaver (and especially Dreamweaver 8) works almost identically on both platforms. In the few cases where there are differences, we've included separate procedures for Windows and for Mac users.

There is one other thing that we haven't done in this book that we have done in all of our previous Mac books. We are no longer telling Mac users to Control-click to bring up a contextual menu (which we sometimes call shortcut menus in this book). Instead, we've adopted right-click, because Apple is now shipping its multiple-button mouse (which it calls Mighty Mouse) with all of its computers that come with a mouse. If you still have one of the old Apple mice with a single button, just substitute Control-click wherever you see right-click in the book. Better yet, we suggest that you get any USB or wireless mouse with multiple buttons and a scroll wheel. It will really increase your productivity.