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Chapter 1: The Many Ways to Design a Web Page
On the far left of the status bar, as shown in the top of Figure 1-9, you find
the tag selector, which displays the HTML tags and CSS rules that apply to
any selected element on the page. In Figure 1-9, the cursor is inside a text
block that’s formatted with the <h1> tag, which is inside a <div> tag with a
#container ID, which is inside the <body> tag. Clicking any tag in the tag
selector selects the tag and all its contents in the workspace. Right-clicking
(Control-clicking on a Mac) a tag opens a pop-up menu with formatting
options that make it easy to add or remove tags and CSS rules.
Toward the middle of the status bar, you find the select tool, hand tool, zoom
tool, and magnification pop-up menu, which you can use to move, enlarge, or
reduce the display of a page in the workspace.
On the far right side of the status bar is the download size/download time
tool, which displays the total size of the Web page, including all images and
other elements on the page and the estimated time it will take the page to
download, based on the connection speed specified in Dreamweaver’s pref-
erences. By default, the connection speed is set to estimate the download
time of a page over a 56K modem, but you can change it to a faster or slower
speed by changing the preferences, as shown in the following section.
Changing preference settings
The more you use Dreamweaver, the more you’re 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.
To open the Preferences dialog box, choose Edit➪Preferences on a Windows
computer, or Dreamweaver➪Preferences on a Mac. Dreamweaver includes
19 different categories in the Preferences dialog box and makes it possible to
change the appearance, default settings, and many other options throughout
the program.
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