Datasheet

The menu bar
Like most programs you’ve used, the menu at the top of the screen provides
easy access to most program features, including the options you find in the
Insert bar, Property inspector, and panels, as well as a few others that are
available only from the menu.
The status bar
The status bar, at the bottom of the Document window, includes a number of
useful details about the page that’s open in the program, as well as access to
a number of useful features. On the right side of the status bar are tool icons
that control the on-screen display of your document. On the left end, you
find the Tag selector, which features a collection of HTML tags that change
depending on your cursor’s location on the page. The tags indicate how ele-
ments on your page are formatted. If you click a tag in the Tag selector, you
can select the tag and everything it contains in the main Document window, a
handy feature for making precise selections in Dreamweaver.
The more you use Dreamweaver, the more you are likely to appreciate the
capability to customize its features. Remember that you can always change
the workspace to better suit the way you like to work, and you can easily
alter Dreamweaver’s preference settings using the Preferences dialog box
shown in Figure 1-12 by choosing Edit➪Preferences on a Windows computer,
or Dreamweaver➪Preferences if you’re using a Mac.
Figure 1-12:
You can
change how
Dream-
weaver
creates
code,
displays
elements,
and
manages
accessibility
options.
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