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The Menus
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File
Commonly used commands like New, Open, Save, Preview, and Exit are here. They
work just about the same as in any other program. We’ll come back to these
on Day Two when you make your first page.
Edit
Commands like copy and paste are here, as well as a few others you may want
to play around with.
View
The view menu lets you switch between different program views. If you are a
more advanced user, you may want to use the “Code+Design” view,
but for the sake of our class, we’ll use the basic “Design”
view. Make sure this view is selected on your computer.
This menu also has other useful tools like Rulers and Grids which can be activated
to help you with spacing or placement of objects on your page.
Insert
This will probably be the most commonly used menu when designing in Dreamweaver.
Here you can insert all your basic (and advanced) page elements like text, images,
links, tables, etc. This will be explored in greater detail on Day Two.
Modify
Under here, the Page Properties can be edited (which you will use when first
building each page). Other features like Page Alignment and Link Creation can
be done from here.
Text
Obviously this is where all your text commands come from. There are many different
ways of doing text on web pages. You can do the text through headings, basic
html text commands, and other ways like through CSS. All of these options can
be found under this menu.
Commands
This menu will be rarely used, most likely. Here you can record different common
commands and play them back, as well as use different utilities like the HTML
cleaner. As we will cover mostly the basics, this menu won’t be all that
useful.
Site
We won’t even use this menu at all.
Window
This menu helps you organize your workspace. This will help you keep organized
while working.
Help
This menu offers more tutorials written by Macromedia. With such wonderful
tutorials already written for you, though, you’ll probably NEVER need
them.
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