about adobe dreamweaver for novices and others also refer

1. Macromedia
Dreamweaver
ABHIJIT KUMAR
1OCS001
SEC - 3A

2. Index
 Introduction
 Getting Started
 Palette
 Panels
 Editing Pages
 Looking at and editing pages
 Advantage and Disadvantage

3. Introduction and Tips
 Dreamweaver is a professional visual html editor for creating and
managing web sites and pages.
 Originally developed by Allaire Systems in 1997, Allaire was
acquired by Macromedia in 2001, Macromedia was acquired by
Adobe in 2005.
 Latest version recently launched with the name “Adobe
Dreamweaver CS6” .
 Dreamweaver can be used to create many different types of
documents:
◦ HTML , XHTML , ASP , PHP , JSP , ASP.NET , Cascading Style Sheet , JavaScript
, XML , ColdFusion , C#
 F12 key is used for preview the document in browser.
 Remarks
◦ Do not use any capital letters in your filenames.
◦ Use only small letters to write tags.
◦ All sources and files must be kept under same folder.

4. Getting Started

5. Palettes
Objects Palette Properties Palette
This tool acts as a This tool allows you to
shortcut for inserting manipulate highlighted
various objects and text, images, frames and tables
commands

6. Panels
Toolbar Panel
You can access the toolbar panels
via the Window Menu, or the
panels themselves on the right of
the screen.

7. Snippets
Many snippets of code pre-written a lot of
JavaScript. Footers, Form Elements, Navigation
Bars, etc…

8. Properties Panel
Also lets you format the style of the document. I recommend
using style sheets for everything, but there may be instances
where this is useful, perhaps when adding a link to the page by
highlighting the object/text to link and pasting the link URL into
the “Link” box.

9. Insert Panel
Allows you to insert a WIDE range of things into the
code.
Tables, Forms, Templates, Links, Media, Rollover
Images, etc.

10. Editing Pages
Setting Page Properties

11. Text formatting

12. Text formatting(continued…)

13. Inserting Table

14. Adding Images

15. Inserting form

16. Adding layers

17. Adding Links
Three types of document paths:
Absolute paths are complete paths that include the server protocol (usually
http:// for web pages). You must use an absolute path when creating a link to a
file outside the current site.
Root-relative paths always begin at the root of the current site. Root-relative
paths begin with a slash that tells the server to start from the root.
Document-relative paths are relative to the folder containing the current
document. Document-relative paths are often the simplest paths to use for links
to files that will always be in the same folder as the current document.

18. Looking at and edit
html

19. Advantage
• Don't need to know HTML to put up a Web page.
• Direct and easy-learning.
• More built-in developer tools, support for more plug-ins, and transparent support
for other Macromedia products such as Fireworks.
• It's more robust than FrontPage and could meet the requirements of
experienced web developers.
• Powerful capability for site management.
Disadvantage
• Slower to edit HTML changes compared with Text HTML Editors.
• Not absolutely WYSIWYG(“what you see is what you get”).