Introduction: Welcome To Dreamweaver - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 is a professional HTML editor for designing, coding, and
developing websites, web pages, and web applications. Whether you enjoy the control of
hand-coding HTML or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver provides
you with helpful tools to enhance your web creation experience.
The visual editing features in Dreamweaver let you quickly create pages without writing a line of
code. You can view all your site elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel
directly into a document. You can streamline your development workflow by creating and editing
images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application, then importing them directly
into Dreamweaver, or by adding Macromedia Flash objects.
Dreamweaver also provides a full-featured coding environment that includes code-editing tools
(such as code coloring and tag completion) and reference material on HTML, Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), Microsoft Active Server Pages
(ASP), and JavaServer Pages (JSP). Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology imports your
hand-coded HTML documents without reformatting the code; you can then reformat code with
your preferred formatting style.
Dreamweaver also enables you to build dynamic database-backed web applications using server
technologies such as CFML,ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, and PHP.
Dreamweaver is fully customizable. You can create your own objects and commands, modify
keyboard shortcuts, and even write JavaScript code to extend Dreamweaver capabilities with new
behaviors, Property inspectors, and site reports.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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"What's new in Dreamweaver MX 2004" on page 18
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"Where to start" on page 20
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"Dreamweaver workflow for creating websites" on page 22
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"Using Dreamweaver with other applications" on page 25
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"Dreamweaver and accessibility" on page 26
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"Guide to Dreamweaver instructional media" on page 27
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"Typographical conventions" on page 29
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"HTML and web technologies resources" on page 29
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Dreamweaver
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