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Index
• Background
• Getting Started
• Editing Pages
• Site Management
• Advantage and Disadvantage
• Reference and Additional Resourses
Background
Two kinds of HTML editors:
• Text HTML Editors: provide a lot of control and speed for Web Developers. A Developer who
understands HTML can often edit Web pages much more quickly using a text editor than another developer can using WYSIWYG. If you're planning on doing Web Development professionally, use these editor.
• WYSIWYG HTML Editors: "What You See Is What You Get" HTML editors are very easy to use. Most
novices start out with a WYSIWYG editor because you can get a new Web page up quickly. But while WYSIWYG editors offer more design flexibility, they don't result in pages that are better looking - Designers can create beautiful pages with as easily as with Dreamweaver or Notepad.
What’s Dreamweaver?
• A very popular web authoring tool developed by Macromedia, which helps you build and maintain a website.
• A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor• A program that replaces the need to understand the basic
concepts of HTML and web page construction. • A member of DREAMTEAM together with Flash and Fireworks
which were especially designed for webpage construction
What if you know nothing about it?
• use Dreamweaver you MIGHT be able to build an OK website.
• use Dreamweaver you WILL build a GREAT website.
If you have knowledge of web page construction and HTML
Palettes
Objects Palette
This tool acts as a shortcut for inserting various objects and commands
Properties PaletteThis tool allows you to manipulate highlighted text,
images, frames and tables
three types of document paths:
Absolute paths are complete paths that include the server protocol (usually http:// for web pages). You must use an absolute path when creating a link to a file outside the current site. Root-relative paths always begin at the root of the current site. Root-relative paths begin with a slash that tells the server to start from the root. Document-relative paths are relative to the folder containing the current document. Document-relative paths are often the simplest paths to use for links
to files that will always be in the same folder as the current document.
• Adding links
Advantage
• don't need to know HTML to put up a Web page. • Direct and easy-learning.• more built-in developer tools, support for more plug-ins, and transparent
support for other Macromedia products such as Fireworks.• It's more robust than FrontPage and could meet the requirements of
experienced web developers• Powerful capability for site management
Disadvantage
• Slower to edit HTML changes compared with Text HTML Editors• Not absolutely WYSIWYG
Reference:
• Melissa Pedersen & Lisa Waters & Eddie Gose, How to use Dreamweaver 4, Spring 2002
• http://webdesign.about.com/library/reviews/aabyb-htmleditors.htm• http://www.edtech.neu.edu/workshops/materials/dreamweaver/overview/• http://ccl.english.ohio-state.edu/handouts/defunct/dreamweaver/
Dreamweaver4_Intro.htm• http://www.webaim.org/howto/dreamweaver/• http://ag.arizona.edu/ecat/dreamweaver4/
Further information on the Dreamweaver program can be found at:• http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/: official Dreamweaver
support page by Macromedia
• http://www.lynda.com/products/books/dw3hot/dw3movies.html: short online
training videos from web-design guru Lynda Weinman.
Additional Resources