MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-GETTING STARTED WITH DREAMWEAVER Getting Started page 68

About image placeholders An image placeholder is a graphic you use until final artwork is ready to be
added to a web page; it is not a graphic image that displays in a browser. Before you publish your site,
replace any image placeholders you've added with web-friendly graphic files such as GIFs or JPEGs.
If you have Macromedia Fireworks, you can create a new graphic from a Dreamweaver image
placeholder. When you select the image placeholder and click the Create button in the Property
inspector, Fireworks opens and presents you with a new canvas. The new image dimensions are set to
the same size as the placeholder image. You can then create and edit the image as you like, and replace
the placeholder image in Dreamweaver. For information about creating an image in Fireworks from an
image placeholder, see "Using Fireworks to modify Dreamweaver image placeholders" in Using
Dreamweaver.
68 Tutorial: Creating a Table-based Page Layout
4.
Click OK.
The image placeholder appears inside the first table. The image
placeholder displays a label and the size attributes of the image that
you'll eventually place there.
When viewed in a browser the label and size text for an image placeholder
do not appear.
5. Save your page.