1. Dreamweaver CS4 Skills PLAN – PLAN – PLAN first
Software Skills - Dreamweaver has many innovative features to make designing, creating, editing, managing, and publishing your new Web site easier and more intuitive.
Design Skills – Starting out, a Web designer needs to know where to find and how to use basic design tools. Preparing your workspace and arranging tools the way you want them will help you get ready to create.
PLAN – PLAN – PLAN first
create later, it will save you time later.

2. About Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe Dreamweaver has been one of the most widely used Web site design programs for many years.
Dreamweaver offers design environments that are friendly to both the new and experienced designers.
Using Dreamweaver CS4, it is easier than ever to construct a Web site and manage files.

3. Dreamweaver CS4 Terms
Expander arrow – The small arrow icon at the bottom right of the Property inspector that, when clicked enlarges the panel to reveal additional properties.
Floating panel – A Dreamweaver container for tools and properties that is undocked and can be repositioned anywhere in the workspace or closed if desired.

4. Dreamweaver CS4 Terms
Insert panel – A panel that lists categories of objects you can insert in a Web page, including graphics, text features, tables, multimedia objects, form elements, and more.
Object – An element such as a form, image, or multimedia file added to a Web page.

5. Dreamweaver CS4 Terms
Panel – A Dreamweaver container for tools and properties that appears in the Dreamweaver window either alone or as part of a panel group. Panels can be undocked and repositioned anywhere in the workspace or closed if desired.
Workspace – In Dreamweaver, the desktop area where the document window and panels appear.

6. Dreamweaver CS4 Terms
Panel groups pane – The panel on the right side of the Dreamweaver workspace were panels appear by default.
Property – A characteristic that defines the value, appearance, and/or state of an object.
Web page – A single file in a collection of files that make up a Web site.

7. Dreamweaver CS4 Terms
Property inspector – A Dreamweaver panel that displays properties for the currently selected object.
Web Site – A collection of Web pages and other objects, such as images, that are linked to create a resource dedicated to a particular subject.

8. About Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Document
Window
Property Inspector
Panel Groups Pane
Expander Arrow
The Dreamweaver workspace is the part of the window where you create, work with, and save Web pages
The largest area in the workspace is the Document window. You use the Document window to create page content.
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Get Started with Dreamweaver: Lesson 1, Exercise 1

9. Toolbars
Application Bar
The Application bar is a menu bar that provides selections for creating and working with Web sites, pages, and objects. Objects are elements you add to a Web page. The various menus—File, Edit, View, Insert, Modify, Format, Commands, Site, Window, and Help—are grouped by the task you want to perform.
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10. Toolbars
Document
Toolbar
The Document toolbar appears at the top of the Document window directly above the window’s contents. The toolbar displays Code, Split, Design, and Live View buttons that you can use to toggle among the various views. You will learn more about these and other view options later in the course.
The Document toolbar also shows the title of the current page and gives you easy access to tools that enable you to check browser compatibility, preview the page, and modify the display of page content.
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Get Started with Dreamweaver: Lesson 1, Exercise 1

11. Panels
A panel group contains several related panels. The Files panel group contains the Files panel and the Assets panel. To switch from one panel to another in a group, simply click the panel’s tab.
Panel groups can be opened and closed as you require. To open a panel group, double- click the panel’s tab. To close a panel group, double-click the panel tab again.
You can drag a panel group away from its default location by clicking panel tab and dragging the panel group to a new location. If you leave the panel group undocked in the workspace, you have created a floating panel group.
Files Panel
Group
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Get Started with Dreamweaver: Lesson 1, Exercise 1

12. Assignment
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