Dreamweaver - Select a Document View

You will be doing most of your web authoring in the Design Window.

Nevertheless, the Document window still offers you 4 different views:
1. Design View - renders a page in a browser-like context.
2. Code View - displays the page's source code.
3. Code + Design View - displays both code and design views. (this view is activated by pressing the Split button)
4. Live View - renders a page in a live browser within Dreamweaver.

Any changes in one view will also be instantly reflected in other views.

.......notes and excerpts from "Adobe Classroom in a Book"

Dreamweaver - .html or .htm

it is only a matter of personal preference whether you want to use .html  or   .htm  for file extensions. But you should be consistent!

Most websites use the name   index.html   for their homepages.

Dreamweaver - Selecting a CSS Layout

Notes and excerpts from "Adobe Classroom in a Book"

Adobe Dreamweaver cs4 provides 32 CSS layout files, all with different designs. In an exercise, you will select one and then modify it.

These CSS layouts are carefully tested to comply with web standards and to work cross-platform on all major browsers with no additional changes to the layout.


The following types of CSS layouts are provided:
1. popular two- and three- column layouts
2. fixed-width layouts (shown with a lock symbol)
3. percentage- or em-based layouts (shown with a spring symbol to indicate elasticity)
4. layouts that are a mixure of pixels, percentages, and ems

Adobe Dreamweaver will set itself as the default editor for the following file types:

Active Server Pages (asp)
Java Server Pages (jsp) [not automatically selected, did not select manually]
ColdFusion (cfm,cfc)
ASP.NET (aspx, ascx) [not automatically selected, did not select manually]
PHP (php, php3, php4)
JavaScript (js)
Cascading Style Sheet (css)
Extensible Markup Language (xml)
XSL Style Sheets (xsl, xslt)

Dreamweaver - basics - local and uploaded remote sites

in dreamweaver, you initially work with a local site stored on your hard drive. After you are finished, you can publish your site, and then you would also be working with a remote version of your site, which is stored on your web host's servers.