Working In Dreamweaver CS4′s Document View
Adobe Dreamweaver contains a large array of floating palettes called panels. Some of these contain options that are duplicated both in the main and context menus or which can be accessed with keyboard shortcuts. You will therefore find that you do not need to keep all of Dreamweaver’s panels open.
As a new Dreamweaver user, the first document view keyboard shortcut you should learn is F4. This is the shortcut for Window – Hide/Show Panels (or View – Hide/Show Panels). This very useful toggle causes all of Dreamweaver’s panels to disappear or reappear at their original positions.
The commands for revealing and hiding Dreamweaver’s various panels are to be found in the Window menu. However, in addition to the panels, Dreamweaver has two other tools palettes which are referred to as toolbars. One of these, the Document toolbar, is normally displayed at the document window. To make this toolbar visible, choose View-Toolbars-Document.
The three buttons on the left of the Document toolbar are perhaps the most frequently used: Code, Split and Design views. The document title box is used to set the title which will appear in the title bar of the user’s browser (as opposed to the document’s file name). The file management pop-up menu contains options for uploading and downloading the document as well as commands to be used when working in collaboration. (These options are also available in the Site menu.) The browser preview pop-up menu allows you to preview your page in any of the browsers you specify using the Edit Browser List command.
Dreamweaver’s document toolbar is only visible if you are working in document view. To be working in document view simply means to be editing an HTML, or other, document. If you are not in document view then you are normally working in the Files panel. There are three ways of entering document view from Files view.
1. Open an HTML document by double-clicking its name or by choosing File – Open.
Secondly, you can create a new blank file by choosing File – New.
3. Activate a document which is already open by clicking its button in the Windows Taskbar or by choosing its name from the bottom of the Window menu.
Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Training, an independent computer training company offering Adobe Dreamweaver training courses at their central London training centre.
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