Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3 / What is Dreamweaver?
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Although Dreamweaver gained its reputation as an HTML editor it's really much more than just a tool to create and edit HTML documents. Dreamweaver serves just as well as a web application builder, an FTP client, a website manager, or even a website assets manager. With Dreamweaver you can quickly and easily design, develop, and maintain websites and web applications as they come from the same publisher. Dreamweaver enjoys excellent integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, and Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. Built for both designers and developers, you can create and edit in either design view as I have here or in code view. If you'd rather build your web pages by working with the HTML directly, or you can work in split view and see views of both the code and design page. Dreamweaver's capabilities for visually designing web pages is unmatched using the AP Div tool. It's simple to draw out, CSS space to page layouts by simply tracing over the page layout formats that you want. It's also easy to draw out page layouts in tables using the new table mode layout mode tool here. Using this tool you can layout both tables and table cells by simply drawing on your document. To really get any kind of page layout that you want simply again by tracing over the design you wish. So either of these tools, the AP Div tool or the table layout mode allows you to quickly and efficiently trace out any page layout scheme you desire whether you want to use tables or Div tag layers. As I mentioned previously Dreamweaver also serves as an excellent web application builder. A web application is a website that contains pages with partly or entirely undetermined content. Final content of a page is determined only by request made by the visitors to the site as it's being viewed because the final content of the page varies from request to request based on the visitors actions. This kind of page is called a dynamic page. Dreamweaver, with it's supportive My SQL databases, Javascript, VBScript, ASP.net, PHP and ColdFusion is an excellent tool for building these types of dynamic web pages. Notice that you can create and work with pages of the type XSLT, Actionscript, CSS, Javascript, XML, ASP Javascript, ASP VBScript, ASP.net, ASP.net VB, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Component, JSP and PHP. Dreamweaver also has an excellent FTP client built into it. You can use this FTP client to upload and download files to and from your web server and to your local machine. Dreamweaver's very visual interface makes it easy to transfer files back and forth between your host and the local machine. Simply open up the pages of the files window and drag and drop them from one side or the other, either moving your local files over to the remote site or moving files from the remote site and dragging and dropping them over to the local files window here to the right. In addition the site cache that Dreamweaver will generate for every local site, enables it to keep track of every link in your site and warn you if you try to do anything that may cause problems down the road with your links or site assets in this case. I've changed the name of a file, and Dreamweaver based on the site cache is warning me that there is a link to this file here, child window dot HTM that will be affected. It's asking me if I want to update that link. Using the assets panel that I have open here, Dreamweaver can manage all of the various assets used in your site pages. It does it in a very visual environment. It can manage your images, your colors, your URL's, your Flash components, your Director Shock Wave components, any video, movies, scripts, templates or libraries. Dreamweaver also excels as a website manager. It'll manage your sites again through the files window here. A Dreamweaver CS3 site is a collection of all the files and assets in your website. You create web pages on your computer, upload them via the FTP client - that I demonstrated earlier - to a web server and then manage them using Dreamweaver's powerful but easy to use site management tools including the files window, the link checker, the HTML tag validator and the accessibility checker to maintain the site. You'll use the file manager here to transfer updated files whenever you save them. You can also edit and maintain websites that were created with tools other than Dreamweaver. Now I could continue listing more and more features and capabilities of Dreamweaver. But let me now review which of Dreamweaver's numerous capabilities are actually covered in this tutorial course and also give you a quick review of what's new in the CS3 version of Dreamweaver.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33789 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-04-6 |
| Release Date: | 2007-09-06 |
| Duration: | 10 hrs / 125 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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