Skills Covered
WYSIWYG
The Dreamweaver Workspace
Windows
Manage Sites
Defining A Web site

Dreamweaver is design software that helps you easily create web sites from basic to very dynamic. By the end of this unit, you may be wondering WHY we spent two months hand-coding HTML when we could have jumped right into Dreamweaver. The answer is simple - You have been the victim of an elaborate, evil prank.

No, really, it is important that you have a basic foundation covering what HTML is, and how it works.

Dreamweaver belongs to a class of software commonly referred to as a WYSIWYG editor:

What
You
See
Is
What
You
Get

You are going to be using tools to visually layout a web site exactly how you want it, and Dreamweaver will create the underlying HTML for you. Whatever you see in the Dreamweaver workspace, you're going to get in a web browser.

These instructions are geared toward Dreamweaver CS3, but if you have an older version don't worry, you'll be able to make it work! So, start Dreamweaver: