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Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Page
Here’s a bird’s-eye view of getting started in the Dreamweaver interface:
1. When you launch Dreamweaver, the Welcome screen appears in the
main area of the program (and reappears anytime you don’t have a file
open, unless you close it by selecting the Don’t Show Again option).
2. From the Welcome screen, you can choose to create a new page from
one of the many Dreamweaver predesigned sample files, or you can
create a new blank page by selecting HTML from the Create New options
in the middle column.
3. When you select HTML and you choose None from the Layout list,
Dreamweaver creates a new blank HTML page in the main workspace, as
shown in Figure 1-6.
The workspace consists of a Document window, which displays the
page you’re working on and is where you add text, images, and other
elements that will appear on your Web pages. The Document window is
surrounded by a collection of panels, toolbars, and menus that provide
easy access to Dreamweaver’s many features. More detailed descrip-
tions of each of these follows.
Figure 1-6:
When you
use split
view, you
can select
text in
design view,
and Dream-
weaver
auto-
matically
highlights
the cor-
responding
code in
code view.
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