Introduction

Introduction

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 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.

This guide introduces you to using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 if you’re unfamiliar with any major aspect of it.The tutorials in this guide lead you through the process of creating a simple but functional website.

This chapter covers the following topics:

What you can do with Dreamweaver 8

What's new in Dreamweaver 8

Installing Dreamweaver 8

Registering Dreamweaver 8

Typographical conventions

Getting Started with Dreamweaver

Introduction

What you can do with Dreamweaver 8

What's new in Dreamweaver 8

Installing Dreamweaver 8

Registering Dreamweaver 8

Typographical conventions

Learning Dreamweaver

Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files

Tutorial: Creating a Table-based Page Layout

Tutorial: Adding Content to Pages

Tutorial: Formatting Your Page with CSS

Tutorial: Publishing Your Site

Tutorial: Working with Code

Tutorial: Creating a CSS-based Page Layout

Tutorial: Displaying XML Data

Tutorial: Developing a Web Application

Understanding Web Applications

Installing a Web Server

Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site

Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site

Setup for Sample ASP Site

Setup for Sample JSP Site

Dreamweaver Basics

Working with Dreamweaver Sites

Laying Out Pages

Adding Content to Pages

Working with Page Code

Preparing to Build Dynamic Sites

Making Pages Dynamic

Developing Applications Rapidly