Dreamweaver 8

Dreamweaver Information

Vendor: Macromedia, http://www.macromedia.com/
Category: web authoring; create, edit, design web pages
Platform(s): Windows
Licenses: No network license; installed on machines for which individual license purchased
Version: 8
Local Documentation: none
Help and Support: Dreamweaver includes extensive help and several tutorials within the program from the Help pull-down men. Dreamweaver includes a reference panel to get reference information about HTML tags as well as other development languages.

The Macromedia Dreamweaver Support Center is available within the program.

CSS has held occasional Dreamweaver help and sharing sessions. If you are interested in participating, please send email.

ITS provides some support for using Dreamweaver; check the ITS Web Technology training resources and the ITS Web Technology Services pages.

Dreamweaver Description

Dreamweaver is powerful HTML editor. With it you can create, edit, design, and maintain web pages and sites. With Dreamweaver you can write web pages in HTML, or use a graphic interface to design the pages, letting Dreamweaver write the HTML to produce web pages. Dreamweaver makes it easy to create tables and frames, use cascading style sheets, build forms, and create of library of frequently used items. It also includes tools to manage a web site: finding broken links, cleaning up HTML, incorporating accessibility standards, and producing several kinds of site-wide reports.

Dreamweaver Usage

What It Does

Using Dreamweaver to create web pages means that you do not need to know HTML, HyperText Markup Language, which is the basis of all web pages. Dreamweaver has a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-if-what-you-get) editor that lets you easily create tables, insert images, add links to other pages or other parts of a page, use text enhancements like color, add background images, easily format lists, and much more. You can view both the HTML and the resulting page as you work. You can view web pages with different browsers as you build them.

How It Is Used

Use Dreamweaver to create new web pages, edit existing web pages, or clean up web pages generated by Microsoft Word.

Usage Information

CSS installs Dreamweaver on a specific Windows computer when a license has been purchased. Go to Start | All Programs | Web & Web Tools | Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 to launch it. You can save files locally, in your home directory, or to a shared directory where department web files are stored. On-line help includes an extensive content and index listing as well as searches by keyword; a reference panel that displays as you work on pages; six tutorials; and links to tutorials, support, and other information on the Macromedia web site.

You can manage multiple web sites by creating a new site for each set of pages. If you work on pages locally and then publish them to a web server, the Synchronize function puts the newest versions of files on the web server.

Dreamweaver lets you set up a site so that several people can edit the site files by checking them out to work and checking the files in when saved.

Dreamweaver works well with images created with Fireworks and visual content created with Flash; Fireworks and Flash are also Macromedia products.

updated: 27 May 2006