Macromedia dreamweaver 8-using dreamweaver User Manual

Introduction

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a professional HTML editor for designing, coding, and
developing websites, web pages, and web applications. Whether you enjoy the control of
hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver
provides you with helpful tools to enhance your web creation experience.

The visual editing features in Dreamweaver let you quickly create pages without writing a line
of code. You can view all your site elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel
directly into a document. You can streamline your development workflow by creating and
editing images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application, then importing
them directly into Dreamweaver, or by adding Macromedia Flash objects.

Dreamweaver also provides a full-featured coding environment that includes code-editing
tools (such as code coloring and tag completion) and language reference material on
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML),
among others. Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology imports your hand-coded HTML
documents without reformatting the code; you can then reformat code with your preferred
formatting style.

Dreamweaver also enables you to build dynamic database-backed web applications using
server technologies such as CFML, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, and PHP.

Dreamweaver is fully customizable. You can create your own objects and commands, modify
keyboard shortcuts, and even write JavaScript code to extend Dreamweaver capabilities with
new behaviors, Property inspectors, and site reports.

This chapter contains the following sections: