Dreamweaver

1. Dreamweaver
Presented by
Ms.V.Umamaheswari MCA.,MPhil.,
Department of Information Technology
Bon secours College for Women
Thanjavur-6

2. Index
• Background
• Getting Started
• Editing Pages
• Site Management
• Advantage and Disadvantage
• Reference and Additional Resourses

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Getting Started

6. Palettes
Objects Palette
This tool acts as a
shortcut for inserting
various objects and
commands
Properties Palette
This tool allows you to
manipulate highlighted text,
images, frames and tables

7. Editing Pages
• Setting page properties

8. • Formatting text

10. • Inserting table

11. • Inserting image

12. • Inserting forms

13. • Adding layer

14. 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

15. • Looking at and editing your HTML

16. “Insert Flash Button” in the objects palette
• Adding flash Nevbar

17. Site Management
• Define a site

18. • Use site window

19. 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

20. 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