Dream weaver tutorial basic features


Dreamweaver is a commercial web editor program by Macromedia that provides a web designer a combo of various web development and site management features.

It aims to simplify the task of a web designer by providing him functions that supports JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. Additionally, it also offers its users a wide range of web server tools, which can be utilized to managed a web site. As it is rightly named "Dreamweaver", is a dream for every novice web designer which allows him to create web pages and web sites without using much of HTML coding.

So, lets go on further with this Dreamweaver tutorial and the basic features that it offers. As mentioned above, the idea behind Dreamweaver is to create a web site. Hence, the very first thing it offers on a basic level is to let you make a site by adding files and folders and organizing it. Though, many of the professional web designers plan out their file and folder maintenance strategy, Dreamweaver, does allow a web designer to coordinate and sort out the file layout as and when he chooses to, giving him an edge to rectify his shortcomings or plan of action.

Moreover, it allows web designers to create hyperlinks, insert text, and provides templates to change the appearance of their site, as per their requirements. The basic site management features also allows users to synchronize and transfer files. The behaviour panels in Dreamweaver are like JavaScript which does not require coding. Dreamweaver's easy table-based layouts helps users to align their textual and graphical data to enhance the looks of a web site. It also gives its users freedom to preview their sites on web browsers, to see how the final output will look like. Once the users are through with creating a basic web site, Dreamweaver allows them to publish or upload it using FTP or WebDAV for everyone to see




Posted by James on 2009-08-03 in the category " tools "