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CHAPTER 2
Dreamweaver Basics
To get the most out of your Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 experience, you
should understand the basic elements of the Dreamweaver workspace. This
chapter introduces you to the most important and commonly used
workspace elements, and tells you how to accomplish some basic tasks in
Dreamweaver.
This chapter contains the following sections:

Getting to know the Dreamweaver 8 workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Customizing the Dreamweaver 8 workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Accomplishing basic tasks in Dreamweaver 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Getting to know the
Dreamweaver 8 workspace
The Dreamweaver workspace lets you view documents and object
properties. The workspace also places many of the most common
operations in toolbars so that you can quickly make changes to your
documents.
This section is designed to give you an overview of the Dreamweaver 8
workspace. For more comprehensive information about any of the
workspace elements introduced in this section, see Chapter 1, "Exploring
the Workspace" in Using Dreamweaver.
This section contains the following topics:
"The workspace layout" on page 28
"The Document window" on page 30
"The Document toolbar" on page 30
"The status bar" on page 32
"The Insert bar" on page 33
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