Work in Dreamweaver

HOW TO WORK IN DREAMWEAVER

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WHERE AND HOW TO OPEN DREAMWEAVER

Step 1: Click on Start

Step 2: Select Program

Step 3: Select Macromedia Dream weaver

Step 4: Click on Dream weaver

 You will get the screen as given below:

On opening Dreamweaver you will get 3 main windows, (1) Object; which contains Character, Common, Forms, Frames, Head and Invisible. Many options are available under these, like under common you will get, insertion of image, rollover image, layer, tabular data, horizontal bar, line break, email link, date, flash movie, fireworks object, shockwave file, generator, plug-ins, active x controls, SSI etc; under character you will find some special character/symbols like ©, ®, £, ¥, ™ etc; under frames you will find different type/style of frames; under forms you will find all the elements of forms, like text box, password box, radio button, check box, selection box, jump menu, submit & reset button etc; (2) Properties; which provides the properties of the selected object/item, page properties etc; (3) Launcher; which contains: Site, Library, HTML Style, CSS Style, Behaviors, History, HTML Source; On clicking any of the item on the Launcher the subsequent window opens up.

Before creating your web page you have to create a Root directory in which all of your work will be saved. Then in dream weaver create a Site and Provide the Root Directory (which you have created). To do this;

Step 1: Select Site from Launcher window

Step 2: Click on Define Site

Step 3: Click on NEW

Step 4: Give a name under “Site Name”

Step 5: Select the folder by browsing under “Local root folder”

Step 6: Click on OK

Step 7: Click on DONE

 Now start working on Dream weaver.

 Write your text, format the text, insert picture through Object window or by INSERT -> IMAGE. The Insert Menu provides you all the features available under the Object window. The modify menu provides you to modify the selection properties, page properties, link, table, frames etc. The Text menu helps to do all the formatting for the text, like selecting font, font-size, color, alignment