Chapter 14. Working With Other Applications

When building a Web site, no single application can stand alone; in order to get the best results, you must orchestrate elements from a variety of programs. For example, you might get your text from Microsoft Word, data for a table from Microsoft Excel, and the site's images from Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, or any other image editing program.

Dreamweaver can help you expertly tie together these disparate elements into a unified Web site. It has special features that allow it to work with other programs, making it easy to incorporate files from those other programs in your pages.

In this chapter, you'll learn how you can use other programs to edit elements on a page you're working on in Dreamweaver; how you can use Dreamweaver's integration with Fireworks to edit and optimize images; and how you can import and modify Microsoft Office documents. You'll also learn how Dreamweaver and Macromedia Contribute work together to make editing your Web site easy, even for people who aren't Web savvy.