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    Dreamweaver is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor that helps users build and maintain websites without needing to understand HTML. It allows for setting page properties, inserting images, tables, forms and other objects using its palettes. Dreamweaver supports defining sites, managing pages using site windows, and offers advantages like easy to learn interface and powerful site management capabilities. However, it can be slower for editing HTML compared to text editors and is not fully WYSIWYG.

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    DREAM WEAVER WITH SCREEN SHOTS

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    Dreamweaver is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor that helps users build and maintain websites without needing to understand HTML. It allows for setting page properties, inserting images, tables, forms and other objects using its palettes. Dreamweaver supports defining sites, managing pages using site windows, and offers advantages like easy to learn interface and powerful site management capabilities. However, it can be slower for editing HTML compared to text editors and is not fully WYSIWYG.

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    Dreamweaver

    Uploaded by

    ASHA MAHINI
    Dreamweaver is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor that helps users build and maintain websites without needing to understand HTML. It allows for setting page properties, inserting images, tables, forms and other objects using its palettes. Dreamweaver supports defining sites, managing pages using site windows, and offers advantages like easy to learn interface and powerful site management capabilities. However, it can be slower for editing HTML compared to text editors and is not fully WYSIWYG.

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    Dreamweaver

    Index
     Background

     Getting Started

     Editing Pages

     Site Management

     Advantage and Disadvantage

     Reference and Additional Resourses


    Background
    Two kinds of HTML editors:

     Text HTML Editors:


    provide a lot of control and speed for Web Developers. A Developer who
    understands HTML can often edit Web pages much more quickly using a
    text editor than another developer can using WYSIWYG. If you're
    planning on doing Web Development professionally, use these editor.

     WYSIWYG HTML Editors:


    "What You See Is What You Get" HTML editors are very easy to use. Most
    novices start out with a WYSIWYG editor because you can get a new Web
    page up quickly. But while WYSIWYG editors offer more design
    flexibility, they don't result in pages that are better looking - Designers
    can create beautiful pages with as easily as with Dreamweaver or
    Notepad.
    What’s Dreamweaver?

     A very popular web authoring tool developed by Macromedia, which


    helps you build and maintain a website.
     A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor
     A program that replaces the need to understand the basic concepts of
    HTML and web page construction.
     A member of DREAMTEAM together with Flash and Fireworks which were
    especially designed for webpage construction

    If you have knowledge of web page construction and HTML

    • use Dreamweaver you WILL build a GREAT website.

    What if you know nothing about it?


    •
    use Dreamweaver you MIGHT be able to build an OK website.
    Getting Started
    Palettes

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

     Setting page properties


    •
    Formatting text
    • Inserting table
    • Inserting image
    • Inserting forms
    • Adding layer
    • 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.
    • Looking at and editing your HTML
    • Adding flash Nevbar

    “Insert Flash Button” in the objects palette


    Site Management

    • Define a site
    • Use site window
    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

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