CHAPTER 2

Dreamweaver Basics

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To get the most out of your Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 experience, you 

should understand the basic elements of the Dreamweaver workspace. This 

chapter introduces you to the most important and commonly used 

workspace elements, and tells you how to accomplish some basic tasks in 

Dreamweaver.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Getting to know the Dreamweaver 8 workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Customizing the Dreamweaver 8 workspace  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Accomplishing basic tasks in Dreamweaver 8  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Getting to know the 

Dreamweaver 8 workspace

The Dreamweaver workspace lets you view documents and object 

properties. The workspace also places many of the most common 

operations in toolbars so that you can quickly make changes to your 

documents.

This section is designed to give you an overview of the Dreamweaver 8 

workspace. For more comprehensive information about any of the 

workspace elements introduced in this section, see Chapter 1,  Exploring 

the Workspace  in Using Dreamweaver.

This section contains the following topics:

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 The workspace layout  on page 28

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 The Document window  on page 30

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 The Document toolbar  on page 30

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 The status bar  on page 32

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 The Insert bar  on page 33

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