Managing Images with the Favorites List

Placing images that you use repeatedly in the Favorites list can be a time-saver. You can add any image contained within the site to your Favorites list. Each site has its own Favorites list. This list is empty when you start using Dreamweaver. In the following exercise, you'll add an image from the Site category to your Favorites list and then organize that list.

1.	In the Assets panel's Site list, select teaching.jpg and click the Add To Favorites button, located in the lower-right corner. A dialog box appears to let you know that the selected assets have been added to this site's Favorites list. Choose OK to acknowledge the message and close the dialog box. Note There are several alternative methods to add an image to the Favorites list. You can select an image in the Files panel and use the context menu in the upper-right corner of the panel to choose Add To Favorites (Macintosh Users). Yet another method is to make an image in your Document window a favorite. To do this, Ctrl-click (Macintosh) or right-click (Windows) the image and choose Add To Image Favorites from the context menu that appears. This context menu contains a wide variety of options and also works for other elements such as links and Flash objects.
2.	Use the Images options at the top of the Assets panel to select the Images: Favorites radio button. The Assets panel now displays the list of favorites, with the image you added in the previous step. As you begin to manage your images through the Assets panel, you probably will need to remove as well as add images. When an image is selected in the Favorites list, the Add To Favorites button becomes the Remove From Favorites button. Clicking Remove From Favorites causes the selected image to disappear from the list. Note In both the Site and Favorites lists in the Images category you can use the context menu to find the location of a particular image within your site. To do so, select and image and choose Locate In Site from the context menu. The Files panel becomes active, with the image selected in the site structure.
3.	Click the icon for the New Favorites Folder at the bottom of the panel. In the name text field of the folder that appears, replace the default name of untitled with Teachers and press Return (Macintosh) or Enter (Windows). You can organize your images in folders to make them easy to locate. Tip You can also select the New Favorites Folder option from the context menu. This option is available only in the context menu when you are viewing the Favorites section of the Images category.
4.	Drag the teaching.jpg image into the Teachers folder.

You can double-click the small folder icon to see the contents of the folder and double-click again to collapse the folder. Images contained within a folder will appear below and slightly indented from the folder.

Note

If you need to delete a folder that you created in the Favorites list, select the folder and then click Remove From Favorites at the bottom of the Assets panel.